- Bob Dowdy: Wait a minute. This is show business! There's nothing you can't do in show business. You just got to try a little harder, that's all.
- Leo Belney: That's all.
- Ted Sturgis: That's all!
- Ted Sturgis, Bob Dowdy: [singing] There's no other way, Beginning today, You're going to work, Under pressure
- Leo Belney: But pressure, I will not know where I'm at
- Ted Sturgis, Bob Dowdy: You've gotta come through, And isn't it true, The new stuff you write, May be fresher
- Leo Belney: Yes, I've a thesis, Masterpieces, Often happen like that...
- Suzy Doolittle: Golly, other girls go out with boys!
- Mrs. Doolittle: You're not like other girls. You have a gift. Its time enough to think about boys when you're - 25 or 30.
- Suzy Doolittle: Twenty-five? I'll be dead by then.
- Ted Sturgis: Miss Leslie, I want you to call the newspapers, give them this item. Tell them we're looking for a girl to replace Janet Hallson. A newcomer. We're gonna give a girl a break.
- Felix Jordan: Ted you're crazy. Give this to the newspapers and you'll be swamped with girls.
- Ted Sturgis: That's *exactly* what I want.
- Mrs. Doolittle: Tonight we do our manicure. We do our hair. We'll have a light supper and hot bath and a good massage and we're in bed by ten.
- Burton Bradshaw: Isn't this the chance we've both been waiting for?
- Mrs. Olga Bradshaw: What about my chance? I have a career too.
- Burton Bradshaw: Well, it seems to me that teaching kids is a lot more important than hopping around on your toes in a Broadway show.
- Mrs. Olga Bradshaw: Since we no longer have a language in which we can communicate, it would be *intolerable* to be confined in this small space with you.
- Burton Bradshaw: Well, now, where are you going?
- Mrs. Olga Bradshaw: Home to my folks in Montclair.
- Burton Bradshaw: Well, I'll save you the trouble. I'll go home to mine - in the Bronx.
- Ted Sturgis: Don't you know you can dance circles around those kids? You just have to keep dancing and dancing and dancing! You got the jitters, that's all. You're the best dancer I ever knew. Come on, give me your hand. One, two, three, four. Left, right, left, that's it. Now, come on. Let's go. Let it go! One, two. Double it! One-two-three-four-five-six-seven-go!
- Felix Jordan: Where is she?
- Bob Dowdy: She's in her dressing room. She's crying and she won't come out.
- Ted Sturgis: Don't look at me. I've been milk and honey.
- Ted Sturgis: Don't give yourself any airs. I knew you when. Remember? Madelyn Newspickle - you were a butterfly in Miss Catsley annual recital. The *pride* of Tulsa.
- Burton Bradshaw: You're very merry of the sudden.
- Madelyn Corlane: I'm going away.
- Anson Prichett: Where?
- Madelyn Corlane: Where all dancers go when they're washed up. Home. Back home.
- Mrs. Doolittle: Oh, Suzy, I've got to admit it, he's a lovely boy.
- Suzy Doolittle: A *man*, mother. A man!
- Mrs. Doolittle: Ohh, Suzy.
- Bob Dowdy: Suzy, you don't know how wonderful it is to meet someone like you. Someone I can, converse with.
- Suzy Doolittle: That's the way I feel too. Everything's so crazy nowadays, that there's so many things I'd like to ask you, things I couldn't talk to my mother about. Like, for instance, rocket ships and what if you get to like someone and the first thing you know, he might have to go off and, or, all sorts of things.
- Bob Dowdy: Yeah.
- [singing]
- Bob Dowdy: The state of the world is such, That the world is in quite a state! But let's not worry too much, Let the rest of the world debate, Right now the thing to discuss, Is the wonderful status of us! The state of our union, Hearts in communion, Never will know any foreign entanglements, Outsiders will not rate, In our united state...