- Showgirl: [admiring the diamond bracelet that Georgia received from Steve] There's something about a diamond bracelet that makes a man very attractive.
- Don Corwin: [referring to Georgia] Ah, he said her name was, uh...
- Bill Fellows: He didn't say... but it's Georgia King.
- Don Corwin: How did you know?
- Bill Fellows: Friend of hers is involved in a little case of sudden death, which might turn out to be murder.
- Don Corwin: Stop talkin' like a cop. Where does *she* fit in?
- [points to Georgia]
- Bill Fellows: A guy named Bender was knocked off, we think, by a guy named Maddux, we think, in the club where she was singing, we know.
- Don Corwin: That's the trouble with you cops, you think too much and you know too little.
- [Don starts to walk over to Georgia]
- Bill Fellows: Don't move too fast, Don. That dame could be dynamite.
- Don Corwin: You're tellin' me.
- Bill Fellows: She's already spoken for, to put it quaintly.
- Don Corwin: Yeah? By whom?
- Bill Fellows: The guy with that handy gun.
- [shakes head]
- Bill Fellows: I wouldn't mess around his gal.
- Don Corwin: [looking at Georgia] I can't think of a nicer way to die.
- Steve Maddux: [to Ruby, after having slapped Candy] Some guys are like women, slap 'em down, they love you more.
- Don Corwin: [to Ruby] I want my hunk of the 20th century right now. I'm tired of standing on the outside looking in, while the heels of the world gorge themselves. I can do anything they can, and better.
- Steve Maddux: I just came by to lay my heart at your feet. A career can always use an extra one to walk around on.
- Georgia King: Your heart's like a banana peel, Steve. Anybody who tries to walk on it skids.
- Steve Maddux: [to Georgia] What's there left for me to be afraid of? Me, Steve Maddux, a lamster... hiding out like a sewer rat. Afraid of the light and making faces at my soul in the dark.
- Steve Maddux: Corwin won't help you pick up the pieces of your life i've left.. you... you're still better off.
- Georgia King: When will you pick me up? and where?
- Steve Maddux: You never know when you're well off, do you?
- Georgia King: Never have, never will.