- Eddie: You want me to drive you out to the ballgame this afternoon, Mr. Sam?
- Sam Demming: No, I'm sick of ballgames.
- Eddie: The Giants are playing the Cards.
- Sam Demming: I don't care if the Senators are playing the horses!
- Patsy Demming: Gosh, can't a girl come home for the weekend?
- Jonnie Demming: Oh, sure. But since when did the weekend start of Wednesday?
- Jonnie Demming: Those Hollywood dames kill me. They make two pictures and some half-baked press agent tells them how great they are and right away they want to come to New York to teach Ethel Barrymore how to act.
- Felix Gross: Gee, I'll never forget that scene in her last picture where she took that bubble bath. They sure were pretty bubbles.
- Jonnie Demming: She's not kidding me. She's here for just one thing: a Broadway show. I could have her tomorrow on toast.
- Felix Gross: Ain't a bad idea.
- Felix Gross: You better watch yourself, boss. Them dames is temperamental.
- Jonnie Demming: I'm a little temperamental too. Maybe we ought to get together.
- Felix Gross: What are you doing here?
- Patsy Demming: I've got an act and a chance to try it out.
- Felix Gross: In a joint like this?
- Patsy Demming: It isn't a joint. It's one of the elite spots off the city - it says so on the menu.
- Trixie Simpson: Look, gorgeous, I'm tired of beatin' around the shrubbery. Do I get a part in the show or don't I?
- Felix Gross: Now, listen, Toots, you leave your career in my hands and you'll be covered in diamonds.
- Trixie Simpson: What? And get all scratched?
- Patsy Demming: [singing] What do you think I am - just a baby? What do think I am - just a child? What do you think I go around - with men for?
- Patsy Demming: Oh, gosh, Jonnie, last night I really lived. People liked me. They applauded. I felt glamorous, important.
- Jonnie Demming: Well, you were, for a minute or two. But, I'm sorry it happened.
- Patsy Demming: Well, I'm not.
- Patsy Demming: Hello, Miss Hoyt. Gee, I'd know you anywhere. I've seen all your pictures! They were wonderful. You're wonderful! May I touch you?
- Patsy Demming: He's kept you on ice for the past five years. Hasn't he?
- Sam Demming: And don't speak about your father like he was a side of halibut!
- Sam Demming: What is this? Hey, hey, what's going on here?
- Jonnie Demming: We're doing "Uncle Tom's Cabin" and I'm playing Simon Legree.
- Jonnie Demming: Hey, Pop, where are you going?
- Sam Demming: I'm going out to the ballpark where you're always trying to send me. And if they've made that arty, you'll find me a Grogan's Bar. Stinkin'!
- Jonnie Demming: You ought to look to the future. One day you and Trixie will get married and before you know it, you'll have a baby and what's the first thing you do when you have a baby?
- Felix Gross: Wed.
- Jonnie Demming: No, dopey. You pass out cigars.
- Sam Demming: Lay off of the arty stuff. You were born in a split week between Tulsa and Little Rock. Your first bottle was two parts milk and one part hokum. You learned your alphabet out of Joe Miller's joke book. Hokum is in your blood, kid.
- Jonnie Demming: I'm going to postpone this show until I can get Helen Hoyt to play that part.
- Felix Gross: But she don't want to play on our team.
- Jonnie Demming: Oh, don't you worry. When I get through pitching, she'll be catching
- Felix Gross: Well, you better watch your step. She already hit your fast ball.
- Jonnie Demming: Wait'll I throw her the curve. You know, she's kinda pretty at that.
- Jonnie Demming: I'm sick of giving the public what they want! From now on I'm going to give them what they ought to have.
- Jonnie Demming: You know what I'm going to do for you? I'm going to make you the biggest hit of the Broadway season. I'll plaster your name on every billboard from the Battery to the Bronx. How does it sound, Dreamboat?
- Fernway de la Fer: [singing] Brazilian boogie, There's nothing quite as right, As Brazilian boogie-woogie, It's more than twice as nice, As a samba or a rhumba, It's bound to be your favorite numba, It makes you tingle...
- Sam Demming: Now, there's a show that makes sense and it's got what you've lost since you hit the top.
- Jonnie Demming: What's that?
- Sam Demming: Heart.
- Jonnie Demming: Oh, Dad, you can't sell that old applesauce to Broadway anymore.
- Eddie: I didn't know it was a secret. Miss Hoyt's maid told the busboy at the Jungle Club and the busboy told the trumpet player, the trumpet player told an affinity of mine and my affinity told me! Small world, ain't it.
- Tommy Dorsey: Listen, Pop, if you want that trombone solid with the hepcats, you gotta be groovy. You gotta make it jump!
- Felix Gross: I've got a performer for you that can't miss. You remember Trix.
- Sam Demming: Oh, yeah. How are you?
- Trixie Simpson: I don't know. I haven't had a physical lately.
- Jonnie Demming: If you want to make a fool of yourself, he can have you. But I'll be darned if I deliver you.
- Patsy Demming: [giving the valedictorian speech at the 'Mellford School for Girls' graduation ceremony] Today, the drab little moths that you placed in this ivy-covered cocoon of learning, emerge to try their wings. Some perhaps are destined to be famous artists, some important novelists, one a *great* actress, the rest, just wives.
- Fernway de la Fer: [singing] Somebody loves me, I wonder who? I wonder who he can be? Somebody needs me, I wish that I knew? Who he can be worries me, For every boy who passes by, I shout "Hey, maybe you were meant to be my lover" Maybe, Maybe, Somebody loves me, loves me, I wonder who? Maybe, baby, Oh, baby, maybe it's you
- Jonnie Demming: I've given him everything in the world that he could want. He ought to be as happy as a kid.
- Helen Hoyt: Yes, a kid without a lollipop.
- Helen Hoyt: Your Dad's a trooper, Jonnie. The theater is as much a part of him as his heart and his hands. Take it away and you have a cripple.
- Sam Demming: Get aloud of this. This leaps! All right, boys, give me the groovy - I mean the gravy. Ready? Go.
- [singing]
- Sam Demming: Styles in music always change, There's always some entirely different things, But no matter how they change, Its not as good as in the good old days, I love corny music, Where the trombone blows, Me-aaa-aah, I love corny music, When the band all goes
- Sam Demming, Tommy Dorsey: Me-aaa-ahh...
- Sam Demming: I won't say that swing bands aren't great bands, They're up-to-date bands, I agree...
- Trixie Simpson: Milkman. Hey, milkman!
- [singing]
- Trixie Simpson: Milkman, keep those bottles quiet, Can't use that jive on my milk diet, So, milkman, keep those bottles quiet, Been jumpin' on the swing shift - all night, Been turnin' out my quota - all right, Now I'm beat right down to the sod...
- Ray Kent: [singing] Pretty baby
- Patsy Demming: Pretty baby
- Ray Kent: Won't you come and let me rock you in my cradle of love
- Patsy Demming, Ray Kent: And we'll cuddle all the time
- Ray Kent: Oh, I want a lovin' baby
- Patsy Demming: And it might as well be me
- Ray Kent: Pretty baby of mine...
- Helen Hoyt: You mean you don't want me?
- Jonnie Demming: Want you? I wouldn't want you if you were the only woman walking around with two hands and two feet.