- Robert Davis: When do I start dancing?
- Eduardo Acuña: You do not start dancing.
- Robert Davis: But didn't you come to see me about...?
- Eduardo Acuña: About one of my daughters. The one you so gallantly referred to as "the inside of a refrigerator"?
- Robert Davis: Oh... but, I'm afraid I don't follow you.
- Eduardo Acuña: She thinks you're in love with her.
- Robert Davis: Would it be rude of me to inquire if there is any insanity in your family?
- Mrs. Delfina Acuña: I read in a book that a salmon swims miles and miles to find a mate. And Maria has swum long enough.
- Eduardo Acuña: Maria is going to wait until the right man comes along.
- Mrs. Delfina Acuña: Why should she? I didn't.
- Lita Acuña: Just think Papa, you've been married longer than we've lived!
- Eduardo Acuña: I consider that a very fortunate coincidence, my dear.
- Xavier Cugat: [Cugat stumbles in, obviously listening at the door] Something in my eye.
- Eduardo Acuña: A keyhole, no doubt.
- Eduardo Acuña: What's gotten into you, Maria? Nice girls don't act this way.
- Maria Acuña: [naughtily] Nice girls don't feel the way I do.
- Eduardo Acuña: Why, you're brazen!
- Maria Acuña: How could I be... with a heart like an ice cube?
- Robert Davis: I was just thinking, maybe...
- Eduardo Acuña: No, you do the dancing, I'll do the thinking.
- Robert Davis: I'll admit my attempt at conversation wasn't so hot. Shall I try again? It's a nice day, isn't it? The air is nice. And there seems to be an abundance of it.
- [sarcastically]
- Robert Davis: Say, look, would you mind very much if I tear myself away from you?
- Maria Acuña: No.
- Eduardo Acuña: Now, what is it about that girl that made you go, "errrrrr"? She's beautiful!
- Robert Davis: She's beautiful, all right; but, she has a personality like the inside of a refrigerator.
- Eduardo Acuña: In addition, to which, she is my daughter!
- Robert Davis: She is? She is!
- Eduardo Acuña: She is. Now, what is it that you wanted of me?
- Robert Davis: Just your permission to go out and hang myself.
- Juan Castro: First time I ever heard of a father selecting a trousseau.
- Eduardo Acuña: You know as well as I do that women dress for one another and not for men. Delfina's mother decked her out in fluff when I married her and she's been decked out in fluff ever since. Does your son like fluff?
- Mrs. Maria Castro: My dear, for the first few weeks he won't even know what Julia's wearing.
- Eduardo Acuña: You let that jumping jack in my office. You'll pay for this with every drop of your anemic blood! You nincompoop. You worm! You're fired! Now, get out and never come back - you diddling dimwit!
- Fernando: Diddling dimwit?
- Eduardo Acuña: That gleam in your eye has nothing to do with ice cubes. It's predatory!
- Maria Acuña: Maybe you're right.
- Robert Davis: Look, little lady, as they'd say in Brooklyn: I can't bat in your league. I'm a plain, ordinary guy from Omaha, Nebraska. Just an old fashioned, every day, Midwesterner. Why, my grandfather was a cattle raiser.
- Maria Acuña: So was mine!
- Robert Davis: But, you're streamlined, you're today. Sister, I was raised amongst the grasshoppers. I am strictly from corn!
- Maria Acuña: [singing] I am not such a clever one about the latest fads, I admit I was never one adored by local lads, Not that I ever tried to be a saint...
- Eduardo Acuña: Maybe there is insanity in the female branch of the family. They've conceived a misguided affection for you!
- Robert Davis: Only because they think I'm in love with Maria.
- Eduardo Acuña: Why the mere mention of the word love between you and my daughter makes my flesh creep!
- Robert Davis: We were just running over a thing from Harlem. But, I don't suppose you ever heard of Harlem down here.
- Maria Acuña: Isn't that where the zoot suit with the reet pleat comes from?
- Robert Davis: [surprised] Yeah.
- Eduardo Acuña: It's my invariable rule to distrust women's tastes in clothes.
- Mrs. Maria Castro: That's why he asked me to come by.
- Julia Acuña - the Bride: You'll be the next bride in the family, Maria.
- Maria Acuña: Oh, no! Not me!
- Lita Acuña: Oh, but you have to be! Papa made it very clear that we can't get married until after you do!
- Cecy Acuña: He says its our family tradition that the girls have to be disposed of: one, two, three, four.
- Lita Acuña: You don't know what it's like to be so much in love that - you cry all night.
- Maria Acuña: You're right there.
- Cecy Acuña: It's all right for you to talk. You can turn men down by the dozens! But...
- Lita Acuña: Because you've got an ice cube for a heart!
- Eduardo Acuña: This is a fine way to act on your sister's wedding day. Now, run along and fix your pretty faces.
- Eduardo Acuña: I'm very difficult to live with.
- Mrs. Delfina Acuña: Oh no you're not darling. You're really just a little boy and I love you.
- Eduardo Acuña: She hasn't fallen in love since she was 15, when she got starry eyed about that silly man on a white horse.
- Mrs. Maria Castro: Lochinvar?
- Eduardo Acuña: Yes, you'd think she would have outgrown a tin hero by now. She's probably waiting around for a myth to come to life!
- Mrs. Maria Castro: Will you stop thinking of Maria as a child. She's a woman.
- Eduardo Acuña: And I know women. They all fall in love with an illusion.
- Maria Acuña: Oh, you should read what he wrote to me. No. No, on second thought, I don't think your heart could stand it.
- Eduardo Acuña: Bosh! Anybody can write a love letter.
- Maria Acuña: Ha! I'd like to see you try it.
- Maria Acuña: I like his smile - the twinkle in his eye.
- Cecy Acuña: Remember Mama's advice: don't frighten him with your intelligence.
- Lita Acuña: Just act simple - and mysterious.
- Lita Acuña: Oh Maria!
- Cecy Acuña: Oh Maria! Isn't he just wonderful?
- Lita Acuña: How'd you make out?
- Maria Acuña: The first time in my life I ever really wanted a man to kiss me - and he had something else to do. But, the next time, it's going to be different.
- Band Singer: [singing] Listen to the birdies letting those squeaks out, Puffing their cheeks out, All around the place, Little hurdy-gurdies sounding so merry, Getting so very blue in the face, Surely there's a reason everybody's gay...
- Robert Davis: [singing] Sitting at the table I was never able, To become the host's delight, But now you've given me my after dinner story, I'll just describe you as you are in all your glory, You were never lovelier...
- Eduardo Acuña: A woman doesn't mind you lying to her when you compliment her, but, she'd never forgive a lie that made her a moonstruck ninny.
- Mrs. Delfina Acuña: [reading a note] "The softness of her - " "The pounding of her - " To think that you - lovemaking with Maria!
- Eduardo Acuña: My boy, a woman't advice isn't worth listening to; but, any man who doesn't take it - is a fool. And that's me.
- Robert Davis: I've been pretty much of a dope myself.
- Maria Acuña: I can't forgive him for the things he did to make me fall in love with him.
- Mrs. Maria Castro: What about all the things you did to make him fall in love with you? When you've got a fish hooked, haul him in.
- Eduardo Acuña: I have an instinct for what goes on...
- Robert Davis: For what goes on in a woman's heart, I know.
- Eduardo Acuña: I know this: every woman wants to be swept off her feet and carried away.
- Maria Acuña: [final lines] Lochinvar? Never heard of him.
- Robert Davis: Darling, that's all I wanted to know!
- [first lines]
- Robert Davis: [hailing a taxi from the racetrack] Hotel Acuna please.
- [upon arrival, a sign reads - Xavier Cugat In The Sky Room]
- Robert Davis: Eh, what's his name?
- Hotel Acuña Bellboy: Uh, Eduardo Ecuna. He's the big boss, here's his office.
- Robert Davis: Oh, thanks. Oh, boy...
- [reaches in his pocket for a tip but doesn't have any money]
- Robert Davis: ... huh, I'll get ya later. Thanks.
- [pats him on the back and enters Mr. Scuna's office for a dancing position business proposition]