- Russell Bassett: [to Lila] If I thought a beating would bring you to your senses, I'd have done it myself.
- Lila Crane: [to her rival photo girl] I could make more money for Les snapping pictures than you could trapping furs in a checkroom.
- Max West: I could you use you for posing.
- Lily Krenshka: What kind?
- Max West: Not that kind. Bathing suit art. Strictly for tourists. Pays four dollars an hour.
- Lily Krenshka: Just for wearing a bathing suit?
- Max West: No. For lookin' as if you're never intendin' to swim in it. Try one of those on for size.
- Lily Krenshka: It's a pretty good racket for a dame.
- Max West: It isn't a racket. It's hard work. It takes years of experience.
- Lily Krenshka: And sex is no handicap.
- Russell Bassett: Come on.
- Lila Crane: Where are you going?
- Russell Bassett: You want to use a darkroom don't you?
- Jasan's Studio Photographer: You need a few pointers. I tell you what, come around tonight around closing time. I'll - show you the angles.
- Lila Crane: Don't look now, mister, but your angles are showing!
- Renee: Some night, one of these guys you promise to meet is gonna give you a rough time. Oh, I'd like to see that.
- Lila Crane: Why don't you promise to meet some of them? Or doesn't anybody ask?
- Russell Bassett: If you be a good girl I'll buy you breakfast in the morning.
- Lila Crane: I'll be good.
- Coco Fields: What do you want?
- Lila Crane: I'm Lila Crane.
- Coco Fields: Oh, yes. You're the girl my backers have recommended to me. You're sure you know your business?
- Lila Crane: I'm a good photographer, Mr. Fields. I do my own developing, retouching. I have special lens and I can shoot in color.
- Russell Bassett: [as Basset and West commiserate in the bar, after Basset calls to Steve, the bartender] Another round?
- Max West: No, no thanks. I uh, I haven't been drinking as much since I first met Lila.
- Russell Bassett: That's odd. I've been drinking more.
- Max West: Well, on second thought, I...
- Russell Bassett: [as Steve arrives in front of them] Two more, Steve.
- Steve the Bartender: [as he takes away their empty glasses] Comin' up.
- Lila Crane: I couldn't get anyone up there to look at my pictures even upside down. And they're good.
- Russell Bassett: Yeah. They're very good.
- Lila Crane: So.
- Russell Bassett: So what you need is a hot news shot. Love crazed killer runs amok. Man attempts suicide leap from the empire State.
- Lila Crane: Or me diving in the nude from Brooklyn Bridge.
- Russell Bassett: Well that really would be a hot news shot. Let me know where you live. Something might turn up.
- Lila Crane: I'm sure. You would. Don't call me, I'll call you.
- Lily Krenshka: Let go of me! I don't like being hustled by the fat hands of the law! I didn't do anything wrong.
- Lily Krenshka: One more bum rap for Lily Krenshka.
- Max West: Since when has life been noted for its fairness.
- Max West: It can only see what you want it to see. It can even change that slum where you were raised by exposing it. Don't forget that - Lila.
- Lily Krenshka: Lila?
- Max West: Lila Crane. More elegant than Lily Krenshka. Lila Crane. It's a fine ring: Photos by Lila.
- Les Bauer: You're fired, as of now.
- Renee: Glad to! Another girl can't make a living with this - beetle around!
- [exits]
- Lila Crane: Did you hear what she called me? I'm sorry, Les.
- Les Bauer: Oh, you don't think I blame you. Why, you've got nothing in common with that kind. Nothing whatsoever.
- Lila Crane: Its just that there's so much jealousy when girls work together.
- Roy Carver: People can get their throats cut for that sort of double-cross.
- Lila Crane: Mine's still in tact.
- Roy Carver: So, keep it that way.
- Coco Fields: You may work out. Naturally, you'll look entirely different when I get through selecting your wardrobe.
- Lila Crane: I have an evening gown.
- Coco Fields: Come back in an hour. I have no faith whatever in your taste.
- Mrs. Payton Grange: Even if one's bones are creaking a bit, one must march with the times. Have you heard? I'm learning the mambo.
- Russell Bassett: What do you think of her, Max?
- Max West: Well, I'm very fond of Lila. When we're older we don't look for perfection in our friends. She wanted a career, she got it.
- Lila Crane: Isn't all this wonderful. I'm going to be on Shirley Thomas' "Phone Call to a Personality" in 20 minutes. And it's the most important daytime show in New York. Shirley hates my incise; but, she's been angling for a TV evening spot from the Club Coco and she knows how I stand with Coco, so...
- Lila Crane: [on the phone] I think it would be better if we met at a public place, don't you? Say, the 46th Street Automat?
- Roy Carver: Look, honey. Let's not trip over our ethics.
- Lila Crane: Good night, Roy. The picture's not for sale.
- Roy Carver: Have all those flash bulbs gone to your head? Do you know what that picture's worth?