Carroll Baker credited as playing...
Baby Doll Meighan
- Baby Doll: Sometimes, big shot, you don't seem to give me credit for very much intelligence at all. I've been to school in my life - and I'm a magazine reader!
- Baby Doll: I don't wanna be in the same room with a man that would make me live in a house with no furniture in it!
- Archie Lee Meighan: Oh, honey.
- Baby Doll: My daddy would turn over in his grave if he knew! He would just turn over in his grave!
- Archie Lee Meighan: Baby Doll, if your daddy turned in his grave as often as you say he'd turn in his grave, that old man would plow up the graveyard!
- Baby Doll: Excuse me, Mr. Vacarro, but I wouldn't dream of eatin' a nut which a man had cracked in his mouth.
- Silva Vacarro: You've got many refinements.
- Baby Doll: Thank you.
- [last lines]
- Baby Doll: Well, let's go in now. We got nothin' to do but wait for tomorrow and see if we're remembered or forgotten.
- Aunt Rose Comfort: Oh, my. Oh, my.
- Archie Lee Meighan: Today is the fifth day of November. Tomorrow is the sixth day of November, and the day after that is November seventh. And you know what day that is, don't you? November seventh is your 20th birthday.
- Baby Doll: Ain't that sweet of you to remember. Where's my birthday present?
- Archie Lee Meighan: Oh, you'll get your birthday present, providin' you haven't forgotten the agreement between us, which comes due on that day.
- Baby Doll: Oh, the agreement?
- Archie Lee Meighan: Yeah, the agreement, that you swore on a Bible to keep your side of.
- Baby Doll: Providin' you kept yours.
- Archie Lee Meighan: Have I ever laid hands on you since we've been married?
- Baby Doll: Yeah, as often as possible.
- Baby Doll: Small dogs have a loud bark.
- Archie Lee Meighan: No one is going to whistle at any woman of mine.
- Baby Doll: You take an awful lot for granted when you say mine. I came to you today for protection. What did I get? Slapped, sent home. Now, I'm telling you the agreement between us is over.
- Silva Vacarro: I find you different this evening in some way.
- Baby Doll: Never mind that.
- Silva Vacarro: Grown up suddenly.
- Baby Doll: I feel cool and rested for the first time in my life. That's the way I feel. Rested and cool.
- Baby Doll: [after being told to make him comfortable] Ain't nobody comfortable in that house. Lucky if you can find a chair to sit down on. You want coffee?
- Silva Vacarro: No, just a nice cool drink of water.
- Baby Doll: Oh, well the house water runs warm. But if you've got the energy to run that old pump over there you can get yourself a nice cool drink from that there cistern.
- Silva Vacarro: I've got energy to burn.
- Baby Doll: I feel so weak. Oh, my head is buzzy.
- Silva Vacarro: Fuzzy?
- Baby Doll: Hmm. Fuzzy and buzzy. My head is swingin' round. Must have been that swingin' that done it.
- Baby Doll: [Silva caresses her neck] Don't touch me. Please, don't touch me. I don't like to be touched.
- Silva Vacarro: Well, why do you giggle?
- Baby Doll: Cause you make me feel kinda hysterical, Mr. Vacarro.
- Silva Vacarro: [knowing smile] I do?
- Baby Doll: [starts to get up] Mr. Vacarro, I think I'll go make us some lemonade.
- [he holds her back]
- Baby Doll: What did you do that for?
- Silva Vacarro: I don't want to be deprived of the pleasure of your company. Not yet.
- Baby Doll: Mr. Vacarro, you certainly are getting familiar.
- Silva Vacarro: Don't you have any fun loving spirit about you?
- Baby Doll: Well, this isn't fun.
- [laughs breathlessly and smiles]
- Silva Vacarro: Why do you giggle then? Hmm?
- Baby Doll: Because I'm ticklish.
- Archie Lee Meighan: People know the situation between us. Yesterday on Front Street a man yelled to me and said, "Hey, Archie Lee, has yer wife outgrown the crib yet?" And three or four others hawed at me. Public. Humiliation.
- Baby Doll: Private humiliation is just as painful.
- Baby Doll: We had an agreement that - I mean, I told him that on my twentieth birthday I'd be ready.
- Silva Vacarro: That's tomorrow.
- Baby Doll: Uh-huh.
- Silva Vacarro: And, are you - will you be ready?
- Baby Doll: Well, that all depends.
- Silva Vacarro: What on?
- Baby Doll: Whether or not the furniture comes back. I guess.
- Silva Vacarro: Your husband sweats more than any man I know and now I can understand why.
- Archie Lee Meighan: They's no torture on earth to equal the torture which a cold woman inflicts on a man. They's no torture to compare with it! What I've done is staked out a lot in hell, a lot with a rotten house on it and five complete sets of furniture not paid for.
- Baby Doll: What you done is bit off more'n you can chew.
- [takes a long, slow lick of her ice cream cone with her tongue]
- Baby Doll: I get so depressed goin' through all them empty rooms.
- Silva Vacarro: All the rooms empty?
- Baby Doll: All except the nursery and the kitchen. The stuff in them rooms is paid for.
- Silva Vacarro: You have a child in the nursery?
- Baby Doll: Me? No! I sleep in the nursery myself. I let the slats down on the crib.
- Silva Vacarro: Why do you sleep in the nursery?
- Baby Doll: Mr. Vacarro, that's a personal question.
- Archie Lee Meighan: You know, there's a new bureau in Washington, D. C. It's called the U.W. Bureau. You know what U.W. stands for? It stands for Useless Women! They got secret plans afoot to -
- [takes a swig of liquor]
- Archie Lee Meighan: to round 'em all up and shoot 'em. That's funny. Shoot 'em. Now, you heard me. I said shoot 'em.
- Baby Doll: How 'bout men that's destructive? Ain't they got some plan to round up destructive men and shoot 'em?
- Baby Doll: Archie Lee, you're a mess. Do you know what they call such people? Peepin' Toms!
- Archie Lee Meighan: Ain't that somethin' for a woman who sleeps in a baby's crib to stay away from her husband!
- Baby Doll: Now, I'm gonna plug up the hole in that wall with chewin' gum and if I ever catch you pokin' a knife through it again to peek at me in my sleep, I'm movin' into the Cotton King Hotel.
- Baby Doll: You put me in Tiger Tail - the biggest old wreck of a place in the whole delta. You told my daddy you was gonna restore this place, exactly like it was when the Deauvines owned it, only betta. "Make a show place," you said. Yeah, a freak show!
- Archie Lee Meighan: I gotta boy on the roof right now. I got my man on the roof right now. Can't you hear the hammer on the roof?
- Baby Doll: Is that a hammer? Why I thought that was a king-size termite.