- Patch Gallagher: Yes, yes, yes, the top spot. Where if you drop, you've got twice as far to fall. Maybe I'm a sap for trying. And maybe I can make something out of you if you can stand up when I get through with you.
- Janie 'Duchess' Barlow: I've got good legs, Mr. Gallagher.
- Patch Gallagher: Yes, so I've noticed, but don't let them run away with you.
- Policeman: [During a raid at the Burlesque House] Wait a minute, you... Come on up to the station house, the Lieutenant is throwing a party.
- Janie 'Duchess' Barlow: Can't I even get some clothes?
- Policeman: No, he wants you just as you are.
- Janie 'Duchess' Barlow: Oh, it's that kind of a party!
- [last lines]
- Patch Gallagher: Say, what is this you're dishing out?
- Janie 'Duchess' Barlow: Can't you take it?
- [Kiss]
- Janie 'Duchess' Barlow: [reading a note from Tod] Don't say 'them things'. Don't say 'can it'. Don't say 'guy'. Don't buy shoes with ribbons on them. Don't forget, what's a striptease on 2nd Avenue is art on Broadway. The $50 is to buy you a dress without a zipper.
- Harry - Pianist: I'm the best musician in the country.
- Moe - Stagehand: Yeah, but how are ya in the city?
- Steve: So, you took Warner, eh?
- Patch Gallagher: Yeah, I know she's not so hot, but with all the real talent going Hollywood, you've got to make the best of what you can get.
- Steve: We'll be down to using midgets pretty soon.
- Patch Gallagher: Well, work on her. Use a whip if you have to. She's got to be loosened up by the time we open.
- Steve: I'll offer her candy. Maybe she likes candy.
- Patch Gallagher: Offer her anything but more money.
- Jasper Bradley, Sr.: You didn't really mean to walk out on me just for a few costumes.
- Patch Gallagher: Rather than send beautiful girls out in those, I'd let them go on naked.
- Jasper Bradley, Jr.: You know, Papa, that's a swell idea.
- Jasper Bradley, Sr.: That's the same idea that got you kicked out of school!
- Tod Newton: Do you like gardenias?
- Janie 'Duchess' Barlow: I love 'em!
- Tod Newton: I could take you in my yacht to Tahiti where they grow wild, millions of 'em.
- Janie 'Duchess' Barlow: Hoping I'd go wild too, huh?
- Tod Newton: It might do you a world of good, Janie.
- Janie 'Duchess' Barlow: Tod, dance me towards the bedroom, will you?
- Tod Newton: Hmmm...
- Janie 'Duchess' Barlow: I want to get my coat. I'm going home.
- Patch Gallagher: Do you feel like going through that opening number with Mr. Astaire?
- Janie 'Duchess' Barlow: All right.
- Patch Gallagher: Freddie!
- Fred Astaire: Yes, Pat.
- Patch Gallagher: Show Miss Barlow the routine on that opening number, will you?
- Fred Astaire: I'd love to.
- Chorus Girl #1: How's that Barlow get to take Warner's place?
- Chorus Girl #2: Didn't you ever hear of poisonality?
- Judge: What's your name?
- Rosette Henrietta LaRue: Rosette Henrietta LaRue! Occupation: hipswinging!
- [the court erupts in laughter]
- Judge: Now, Miss LaRue, just what constitutes a striptease?
- Rosette Henrietta LaRue: A good constitution and a couple of zippers.
- [the court erupts in laughter again]
- Judge: Don't be ambiguous.
- Rosette Henrietta LaRue: Oh, I won't if you won't.
- [Smiles and sticks out her tougue. More courtroom laughter]
- Janie 'Duchess' Barlow: What kind of a guy is Patch Gallagher, Rosie?
- Rosette Henrietta LaRue: Compared to him an elephant's hide is tissue paper, but he sure knows his stuff.
- [first lines]
- Girl with Tod: I don't like the looks of this place, Tod.
- Tod Newton: Ah, come on. You'll get a lot of laughs.
- Girl with Tod: The judge will give you 15 years for what you're thinking.
- Tod Newton: It'd be worth it.
- Janie 'Duchess' Barlow: You didn't stop to think that I might have to wrestle my way home, did you?
- Rosette Henrietta LaRue: That's all right. Let him insult you. Plenty a girl has cashed in on a good-hearted insult.
- Rosette Henrietta LaRue: You could dream better if you'll get to sleep.
- Janie 'Duchess' Barlow: I'm through dreamin'. I'm gonna start doin'. I'm going up where it's art. Uptown.
- Marcia - the Southern Actress: And you-all can tell that Mr. Gallagher that cotton will grow black before I come to see him again, sir! Where we-all come from, the gentlemen know how to speak to ladies. And you can tell him from me...
- Steve: Break it up, you all go back to the Mason-Dixon line, sugar.
- Jasper Bradley, Sr.: We're always looking for fresh talent. You can sing and dance, I suppose?
- Janie 'Duchess' Barlow: Yes sir.
- Jasper Bradley, Jr.: But, Papa, how 'bout her rhythm?
- Jasper Bradley, Sr.: Eh-eh, that's Gallagher's job, not yours.
- Jasper Bradley, Jr.: You sure have got rhythm, baby.
- Janie 'Duchess' Barlow: Yeah, well, keep your hands off it.
- Tod Newton: You think you're a dancer, huh? You'll never be an artist until you find out what life's about.
- Janie 'Duchess' Barlow: You ought to open up a art school for chorus girls.
- Janie 'Duchess' Barlow: I milked a cow once.
- Tod Newton: What kind of a cow? Was it a Jersey or a Guernsey?
- Janie 'Duchess' Barlow: I don't know. I didn't see the license plate.
- Patch Gallagher: Hey, look, those guys are a lot of silk hats and silk socks with nothing between. That's what all these dames fall for. Don't let it fool you. It never works out.
- Janie 'Duchess' Barlow: But...
- Patch Gallagher: Dancing is your racket, Duchess, I know it.
- Janie 'Duchess' Barlow: I'm not going to run out on you.
- Patch Gallagher: I don't mix business with pleasure.
- Janie 'Duchess' Barlow: Well, it'd be a pleasure to me if you'd mind your own business.
- Patch Gallagher: Yeah? Say, listen, its my business to see that you gals keep your shapes, Duchess.
- Janie 'Duchess' Barlow: You mean to see that we don't give 'em away.
- Patch Gallagher: Hey, listen, did you ever take a look at a dame who's been out too many nights? The customers out front just love it!
- Janie 'Duchess' Barlow: Will you stop beefin'! You're not on the stage now.
- Chorus Girl: Hey! Look what Ward King says in his column. "It is rumored that one of the new girls in the forthcoming Bradley production, soon will go to the altar with a gay blade from the social registered section of Our Town." What does she do? Hypnotize 'em?
- Steve: Come on, girls. Mr. Gallagher's waitin'.
- Chorus Girl: Why don't you knock?
- Steve: What for? You ain't got nothin' to hide. Come on, girls. Everybody.
- Janie 'Duchess' Barlow: Shake.
- Patch Gallagher: Now, will ya...
- Janie 'Duchess' Barlow: Beat it! Yeah, I know. I'll beat it.
- Art Jarrett: [singing] My dancing lady, There's nobody like you, You find such pleasure, In doing what you do...
- Patch Gallagher: I've been in this racket for years. If you don't get a good break, you get a bad one. That's show business.
- Patch Gallagher: Listen, Steve, Bradley can't do this to me. I'm gonna carry this show myself. I'm gonna produce it! I've got some dough! And what I haven't got, I'll get! I'll hock my car, my clothes, my house, everything!
- Steve: That's great. And-and-and-and I got some, I got some money I been hoarding against the next Depression. And you can have every dime of it!
- Patch Gallagher: All right! Drag it out!
- Tod Newton: That's a swell dance! It's a little bit uncivilized, though.
- Janie 'Duchess' Barlow: Maybe that's why its so beautiful.
- Janie 'Duchess' Barlow: Not for me, Tod. I'm not thirsty.
- Tod Newton: I get it. When a lady says she isn't thirsty, she means all she can drink is Champagne cocktails.
- Janie 'Duchess' Barlow: You ought to write a book about what women want.
- Patch Gallagher: Even the creditors are wise. Hangin' around like a pack of hungry wolves.
- Janie 'Duchess' Barlow: But, don't you see, if you could show 'em a hit.
- Patch Gallagher: You can't kid them. I'll be lucky if they let the curtain go up. They know a hit from a bust!
- Janie 'Duchess' Barlow: Oh, Pat, if its gonna be a bust, let me be there when it happens.
- Janie 'Duchess' Barlow: [singing] Let's go Bavarian, Get yourself a sweet fräulein, She can help you drink a stein, Of good cold beer. Let's go Bavarian, Clink your glasses all around, Make that tinkle tinkle sound...
- Fred Astaire: Spread good cheer! Here in Bavaria, They take good care of ya...
- Janie 'Duchess' Barlow: I saw your face once, in the wings. It made me feel as if everything I was doin' was wrong.
- Patch Gallagher: I guess I got that kind of a face.
- Patch Gallagher: OK, Duchess. Better luck with your show than you had with mine.
- Janie 'Duchess' Barlow: Thanks.
- Tod Newton: Hello, Gallagher.
- Patch Gallagher: Well, well, if it isn't the other half of the firm. Back from Havana so soon? Somebody close your show, too?
- Janie 'Duchess' Barlow: You trying to be funny, Patch? Tom's not in the show business.
- Patch Gallagher: Another
- [orders a drink after downing a shot]
- Patch Gallagher: ... Not in the show business huh?
- Tod Newton: Come on away, Janie, he's just a...
- Patch Gallagher: I'm a little drunk, is that what you're trying to say. Well, drunk or sober, my hat's still off to you. There are more ways than one to close a show, and you taught me a new one.
- Tod Newton: That's enough...
- Janie 'Duchess' Barlow: Hey, wait a minute.
- Patch Gallagher: What's the matter? Afraid your boyfriend'll get a poke in the jaw for throwing a hundred people out of work just so he could take you on a joy ride to Cuba?
- Janie 'Duchess' Barlow: I don't know what you're talking about,.
- Patch Gallagher: No? Not much.
- Janie 'Duchess' Barlow: I'll be seeing ya.
- Patch Gallagher: Oh, sure, sure. We'll sit around the fire, whittle sticks, and talk about a girl who traded Broadway for Park Avenue.
- Janie 'Duchess' Barlow: You shouldn't have said that, Patch.
- Patch Gallagher: No. No, I shouldn't have said that. And I shouldn't have said anything to you but "beat it" the day you came in here.
- Patch Gallagher: You can't get by with that sort of thing today. You've gotta give 'em something out of modern everyday life. Something out of the city streets.
- Pinky - the Show's Author: I'll kill myself.
- Pinky - the Show's Author: Then, just what is your idea, Mr. Patch?
- Patch Gallagher: My idea would be to write a whole new show.
- Pinky - the Show's Author: Oh, you crucify me.
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