- Bill Green: [singing] Girls, I sat up last night - right on side the bed / Why, I wrote a song that's just too bad, children it'll knock you dead. / I know you've all danced the Charleston, the Black Bottom away. / Now, just stand at attention, prance awhile, do just as I say. / Get up hot, don't you stop. Woo-doodle-ee-do!
- Black Orchids: What's that?
- Bill Green: Bill Robinson's Stomp.
- Dusty Fletcher: Boy, where was you borned at?
- Bill Green: I was born in Russia.
- Dusty Fletcher: What part?
- Bill Green: The darkest part of Asia.
- Dusty Fletcher: Did you ever live near the Black Sea?
- Bill Green: Brother, I bathed in the Black Sea.
- Dusty Fletcher: And you forgot to dry off.
- Parson: [singing] For better or worse, do you take this man?
- The Bride - Harlem Honeymoon: I'm gonna take him every way I can!
- Parson: Will you keep her happy? Answer!
- Bill Green: Parson, I ain't had no complaint from anyone.
- Parson: No two-timin', boy - get that in your knob.
- The Bride - Harlem Honeymoon: If he two-times, parson, you gonna have a funeral job.
- Bill Green: Tell Mr. Brown - Bill Green is here to see him.
- Janitor: Mr. Brown don't wanna see no Bill Green.
- Bill Green: By the way, do you play the numbers?
- Janitor: Do a horse eat corn?
- Bill Green: 4-48 tomorrow will get it.
- Janitor: Well, hush my mouth.
- Bill Green: Mr. Brown, just a minute. All I want you to do is give me one chance, and I know I'll make good, 'cause I've been rehearsing. And man, I've got a tap routine, and I know your audience will be wild about it.
- Mr. Brown: I've got too much money invested in this show to be bothered with any amateurs.
- Bill Green: I ain't no amateur! I been on before an audience for years!
- Mr. Brown: Where did you ever dance before an audience?
- Bill Green: On the street corner.
- Mr. Brown: Here's a couple of dollars. Maybe that'll help you get on your feet.
- Bill Green: I don't want no couple of dollars.
- Mr. Brown: Oh, no?
- Bill Green: Well, just a minute - I want a job in your show.
- Mr. Brown: Will you stop followin' me?
- Bill Green: I'm gonna follow you 'til I get two shades lighter.
- Mr. Brown: Your show, or mine?
- Bill Green: That's all I wanna hear you say. Mine or yours.
- Mr. Brown: Mine or yours.
- Pipe Smoking Stagehand: Mr. Brown isn't here. You better git going.
- Bill Green: And Mr. Brown ain't gonna be here. That sign don't read No Smokin'; it reads Brown's Black Orchids has turned to Green, and *you* better git goin'.
- Bill Green: Say, son - listen: That routine is out.
- Mr. Brown's Dance Director: What do you mean, out?
- Bill Green: I mean just what I said, because I've got too much money wrapped up in this show to be bothered with any amateurs.
- Mr. Brown's Dance Director: Well, you can't call me an amateur! I've been in this business for the past twenty years, boy.
- Bill Green: Boy? How big does men grow where you come from? So, the 21st year, you resign. Beat it! Get on outta here. Go ahead - get out!
- Limehouse Brown: Why is goldfish red?
- Interlocutor: I don't know, Limehouse. Why is goldfish red?
- Limehouse Brown: Well, if you swam around all day in a glass bowl with no clothes on, you'd blush too!
- Muriel Rahn: [singer] Got the jitters. Got the jitters. / Got the jitters, got the jitters, got the jitters.