- Vincent Rapallo: Like the man said, "Can happiness buy money?"
- Gloria Price: Well, you're a comedian, too.
- Davy Gordon: Something's happened.
- Gloria Price: Yes, I know.
- Davy Gordon: Do you know?
- Gloria Price: Sure. You kissed me.
- Davy Gordon: Is that all?
- Gloria Price: That's all I saw, and I was watching all the time.
- Gloria Price: All right, don't forgive me. Just tolerate me - and let me suffer knowing how you feel.
- Vincent Rapallo: If only you could know how low and worthless I feel.
- Gloria Price: I didn't even know you had any feelings.
- Vincent Rapallo: What do you take me for, a 14-karat sucker? You and lover boy aren't gonna put me in the hot seat.
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- Davy Gordon: It's crazy how you can get yourself in a mess sometimes and not even be able to think about it with any sense, and yet, not be able to think about anything else. You get so you're no good for anything or anybody. Maybe it begins by taking life too serious. Anyway, I think that's the way it began for me, just before my fight with Rodriguez three days ago...
- Gloria Price: Listen, Vinnie, don't kill me. I don't want to die. I'll do anything you say. Anything.
- Davy Gordon: I didn't know it then, but I was already in over my head, and I couldn't have cared less.
- Vincent Rapallo: I could kill you right here and now.
- Gloria Price: Oh, I don't think you will.
- Vincent Rapallo: I wouldn't be too sure of that.
- Gloria Price: Father was a writer with a growing reputation and Mother was very beautiful and very intelligent. They loved each other very much and they were very happy. Then I was born, and my mother died on the same day. They say Father went on a two-week drunk to celebrate the double event. And after that, I don't think he ever thought of another woman.
- Vincent Rapallo: Oh, you foolish girl. I'm - I'm mad about you. I want to get you out of here. I'll set you up right. I'll be your slave for the rest of my life.
- Vincent Rapallo: I can't stand it when I see those guys dancing with you. Every time I see it, my insides burn.
- Gloria Price: I happened to pass the dance hall. The sign read, "Pleasureland - dancing partners wanted." I don't know what possessed me. I went up. I actually took the job. I don't understand any part of it. Every night I worked in that depraved place - a human zoo.
- Gloria Price: Please, Vinnie. Please don't kill me. You said you were mad about me, remember?
- Vincent Rapallo: I'm just an old man, and I smell bad, remember?
- Davy Gordon: We had some ham and eggs and took our time saying good-bye to the bright lights. Then we went home.