- 'Skip' Owens: [kisses a woman's hand and continues up her arm arm] Sorry, it's the salmon in me trying to run upstream.
- Merton K. Kibble: Here you are, boss. Take a swig of this. It'll straighten you up.
- 'Skip' Owens: What is that?
- Merton K. Kibble: Napoleon Brandy.
- 'Skip' Owens: Can you take vitamins with it?
- Merton K. Kibble: Napoleon took Josephine with it.
- 'Skip' Owens: Hiya, puss! Whatcha doin' after the show?
- Cigarette Girl: The laundry.
- 'Skip' Owens: Cute dish, drooling with charm.
- [first lines]
- Tommy Dorsey: Thank you, ladies and gentlemen. And now for the last number of our engagement here, presenting Buddy Rich, Ziggy Elman, Tallulah Winters, and the girls in the Hawaiian War Chant. Take it, Buddy!
- 'Skip' Owens: Lady Turgid's party. What a gay, mad caprice! I drank wine from your slipper. Two quarts. Ah, Biarritz. Cigarette?
- Tommy Dorsey: Don't tell me you're from Squaresville?
- Merton K. Kibble: Where's Squaresville?
- Tommy Dorsey: Why, man, that's *everywhere*.
- Merton K. Kibble: Oh, you mean I don't dig it. I'm not hep.
- Tommy Dorsey: Groovy!
- Merton K. Kibble: Groovy? Oh, you bet I'm groovy. I'm waiting for a beautiful wren.
- Tommy Dorsey: Well, skin, man.
- Merton K. Kibble: Skin?
- Tommy Dorsey: Well, all reet.
- Merton K. Kibble: Well, all root.
- The Pied Pipers: [singing] We were sailing along on Moonlight Bay, We could hear the darkies singing...
- Tommy Dorsey: Hold it a minute, kids. Now, dig this. Our boat sails in two hours from Pier 5. I want everybody there a half hour before sailing time for a check up. If you're going to parties, watch your time, because its a long swim to Puerto Rico.
- 'Skip' Owens: You remember me?
- Fran Evans: I'm sorry, I never can remember a face; but, I always forget a name.
- 'Skip' Owens: I'm devastated. Cupid snuck up on me and pierced by epidermis. I'm a broken reed. A chaff in in the wind.
- Merton K. Kibble: The flames grew hotter. The fumes grew stronger. Wonderlad grew weaker With all of his remaining strength he flung himself at the cabinet door. It was locked. It held firm. He was licked.
- 'Skip' Owens: Boss, what's wrong?
- Merton K. Kibble: Everything. I'm shattered. Crashed. Just a hull of a man.
- 'Skip' Owens: [on the phone with Kibble's doctor] He a hull of a man. No. Hull. Hull of a man.
- 'Skip' Owens: Once. Just once before I die. Efa safalafa safalafa safado. Hagasaki Nagasaki ragasaki poo.
- Frank Sinatra: [singing] It's the last call for love, Time to say, fare thee well, Let the taps tell you all, That my heart dare not tell...
- 'Skip' Owens: Did you fall boss? Did you hurt yourself? Did you fall? Did you fall?
- Fran Evans: If he didn't, that's a silly way to come down those stairs.