- Helen MacDonald: No, you're afraid to let me see Dick. You know he loves me!
- Blanche Hardell: Don't mind about Dick--I'll settle with him later. No, you come along with me.
- Helen MacDonald: No, I won't come! He loves me, I tell you! That's all I care about--oh Dick!
- Rupert Borka: You are crazy. You cannot act and you will never learn how to act. Why, you are just like the other rich loafers out here. You think acting would be a great chance to make love to all the extra girls.
- Blanche Hardell: Where are you going?
- Helen MacDonald: I'm going to see Dick!
- Blanche Hardell: Now wait a minute.
- Helen MacDonald: No, I've got to see him!
- Helen MacDonald: That night--the night she told me about Dick!
- Tony White: Dick?
- Helen MacDonald: Yes. I was going to kill myself! Oh, I wish I had!
- Rupert Borka: No, no, no. That is terrible. Get up.
- Richard Hardell: Well, what's the matter?
- Rupert Borka: Matter? Well you cannot act. That is all. You do not feel it; you do not think it. Bah!
- Richard Hardell: Want me to try again?
- Rupert Borka: What for? I told you all week that you cannot act. Then I thought maybe if we came here and rehearsed here alone tonight... but it is useless. Why that dummy has more feeling than you.
- Richard Hardell: Ohhh
- [throws dummy out of chair and onto floor]
- Richard Hardell: Now look here, Borka. Why don't you play ball? You agreed to give this part to the winner of that newspaper contest. Now didn't you?
- Rupert Borka: Yes.
- Richard Hardell: Yes.
- Rupert Borka: Like a fool!
- Richard Hardell: Oh, well you just say that because the winner was me and you've always thought I was just a rich man to hang around moving picture people.
- Rupert Borka: And you are!
- Richard Hardell: No, I'm not either. I've always really wanted to act. And if you weren't the director, old boy I'd be making good right now.
- Rupert Borka: You are crazy. You cannot act and you will never learn to act.