- Chorus Girl #3: He says to me, "I'd like to see your show, baby, how about a couple of passes?"
- Chorus Girl #2: The nerve!
- Chorus Girl #1: And the guys I go out with don't want passes. They just make 'em.
- Chorus Girl #3: Speaking of passes, I've been knocking down so many lately, I feel like an All-American.
- Mae Martin: What's the matter, honey?
- Peggy Martin: When are you going to let me feel grown up?
- Mae Martin: Letting you go out with Bubbles LaRue and her men friends, would that make you feel grown up?
- Peggy Martin: I'm sick of the idea of not being able to go anywhere, do anything, without the written consent of my mother. I'm tired of being treated like a child. I'm going to bed.
- Chorus Girl #3: I wonder why my girdle's getting so small?
- Chorus Girl #4: Dearie, maybe you're crowding too much into it.
- Chorus Girl #4: I got a date with a cab driver.
- Chorus Girl #5: Yeah? Where're you going?
- Chorus Girl #4: Who's going? We're parking.
- Chorus Girl #6: There's no business like show business.
- Joe, Stage Manager: Okay, okay! A fine thing, fightin' like a couple of alley cats! What are you trying to do, give Burlesque a bad name?
- Mae Martin: Peggy doesn't belong in your world. She belongs in the show world, burlesque. "Burlesque Queen", that's what people call her.
- Randy Carroll: What difference does that make?
- Mae Martin: You don't care. But what about your mother? And your friends? What will they say when you bring a burlesque girl home and introduce her as your wife?
- Randy Carroll: They'd better say its wonderful.
- Randy Carroll: Mrs. Martin, I hope you'll forgive me for saying this, but you have a mother complex.