- Lan Ying Lin: I hope that you will continue in my service, as long and as faithfully as in my father's.
- One of Quan Lin's Servants: May our days be filled with unrest if we do not serve you well.
- [last lines]
- Jake Kelly: When you get out of jail my grandchildren will be enjoying my Social Security check.
- [lights a cigar]
- Lil: Ladies and Gents, the boss is about to offer you a *real* treat! Miss Lana Chen, Daughter of Shanghai.
- Mrs. Mary Hunt: How much is it Quan Li?
- Quan Lin: If one must set a price upon that which is beyond price.
- Mrs. Mary Hunt: Lan Ying, stop him. When he becomes poetic, the price goes up.
- Lan Ying Lin: Then, if we must be prosaic.
- Mrs. Mary Hunt: Yes?
- Lan Ying Lin: It's two thousand dollars.
- Mrs. Mary Hunt: Two thousand dollars?
- Quan Lin: If we must be prosaic.
- Lan Ying Lin: Are you Mr. Hartman?
- Otto Hartman: What do you want with Hartman?
- Lan Ying Lin: A job. I'm a dancer.
- Otto Hartman: Stand up. Let's have a look at you.
- [Lan Ying stands up, turns around]
- Otto Hartman: Where'd you come from? Who sent you here?
- Lan Ying Lin: I closed in Trinidad three weeks ago. I'm just cruising about the islands.
- Otto Hartman: You any good?
- Lan Ying Lin: Give me a chance and I'll show you.
- Otto Hartman: You don't get any salary, you understand? You get board, lodging and the pickins.
- Lan Ying Lin: Pickins?
- Otto Hartman: Sure, I give my girls 15% of the money they get the customers to spend.
- Lan Ying Lin: I see.
- Otto Hartman: The pickins might be pretty good if you and me hit it off all right.
- Olga Derey: I told her we didn't need any more girls.
- Otto Hartman: I told her different.
- Olga Derey: You hired her?
- Otto Hartman: Sure! We need somthin' new around here.
- Sam Blike: Why do you all use taxis? Couldn't you ride in a nice, long, shiny red car? With foxtail on the radiator cap? And, me, a-sittin' at the wheel with a coat with brass buttons?
- Captain Gulner: I might cut you in. If you know how to keep your mouth buttoned!
- Kim Lee: I wasn't born yesterday.
- Captain Gulner: So I noticed.
- Captain Gulner: How is the show? Worst than usual?
- Otto Hartman: I'll tell you better after I see this new girl.
- Olga Derey: He's changing his luck.
- Otto Hartman: Get outta here before I crack your neck!
- Captain Gulner: Pretty good with your lingo, ain't you?
- Kim Lee: I ought to be.
- Captain Gulner: How many other languages do you speak?
- Kim Lee: Russian, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese.
- Captain Gulner: Let's hear some Roosian.
- Kim Lee: Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta, Epsilon.
- Captain Gulner: Is that Roosian?
- Kim Lee: Sure.
- Jake Kelly: A swell racket like this going on, right under me nose and me dumb to it. Say, why didn't she cut me in?
- Harry Morgan: Maybe she didn't think you had any brains.
- Jake Kelly: Ah, I passed one of them intelligent things a 100%!
- Harry Morgan: Moron?
- Jake Kelly: Sure, that was it!
- Otto Hartman: Are you American born?
- Lan Ying Lin: San Francisco. Have you ever been there?
- Otto Hartman: Greatest spot in the world! I wish I was there now.
- Otto Hartman: I've been slavin' my life away on this island for 10 years. And what for? What for?
- Lan Ying Lin: Money, of course. You're doing a good business.
- Otto Hartman: Huh, you think runnin' this joint's my real business?
- Lan Ying Lin: Isn't it?
- Otto Hartman: No. Listen, baby, people from all over the world try to sneak in through Uncle Sam's back door. And helpin' 'em do it's my business. And believe me, sister, it's some business.