- [first lines]
- Cap Carson: Matt, let the ghost be. It's fourteen years. It's time you buried the dead.
- Matt Masters: They're buried, Cap.
- Cap Carson: But you wanna walk over their grave once in a while just to make sure.
- Cap Carson: Lili's gone. Forget her. When she ran out that night it was over. Like that puff of wind. It's gone! Matt, Let it stay that way.
- Mrs. Schuman: Listen, Emile has been doing his act for three seasons now. Every season they ask for more lions to be sitting on him, I mean *lying* down on him. Emile is getting very tired of lions.
- Matt Masters: I can't say that I blame him. But I have something else in mind.
- Mrs. Schuman: What?
- Matt Masters: Tigers.
- Billy Hennigan: Aren't you the daughter of the world's most renowned aerial artists: The Flying Alfredos?
- Toni Alfredo: Yes.
- Billy Hennigan: I knew it, I knew it. I knew it the first time I saw you. Oh, Lili's *beautiful* face and the carriage it's unmistakable.
- Toni Alfredo: Sicilians are sensitive like horses. And proud! You just remember that when you insult a Sicilian it's for all his life and all of yours.
- Flo Hunt: Hello, Mr. Masters. You don't remember me, I bet.
- Matt Masters: Flo Hunt, tumbling act!
- Flo Hunt: That's me! Broke me back. No more cartwheels. Got married. Four kids. Easier work.
- Matt Masters: All right. You killed him, or I did, or maybe it was something neither of us could help - or anybody. Because, as God knows we didn't just wake up one morning and say: Today we're gonna fall in love .
- Mrs. Schuman: Don't worry. I know how to handle him. I will let you know. My husband will always do the right thing in the end.
- Matt Masters: Well, thanks. A man is lucky to have a smart woman to guide him.
- Lili Alfredo: What would you do?
- Matt Masters: I'd wash my face. I'd comb my hair dnd make myself decent enough to go up to that little girl and say: I'm your mother.
- Cap Carson: We did all right today, 81 kids, 77 grown-ups, 6 dead heads. Total: 259 pesetas, That's 43 dollars American.
- Matt Masters: You encouraged her. I saw it. Grabbing her and twirling and twirling her around.
- Steve McCabe: Matt, that's called dancing.
- Matt Masters: Well, I call it - dirty handling.
- Toni Alfredo: Funny, when I came in I wanted to kill you.
- Matt Masters: I'm glad you changed your mind.
- Matt Masters: It's time you learned some facts, you know, facts about...
- Toni Alfredo: Go on, I'm listening.
- Matt Masters: Sometimes, with two people, well things can get out of hand sometimes, and it's the woman that has be strong. A man, well, a man's generally no better than he has to be.
- Toni Alfredo: I'm going to grow up. And you're not going to stop me.
- Matt Masters: I can't stop you. You aren't a kid any more.
- Toni Alfredo: Then what am I? Say it. Just let me hear you say it once. Just once.
- Matt Masters: You're a woman, Toni. I got eyes. I can see. You're beautiful - young woman.
- Matt Masters: Well, I don't know what to tell you. Maybe you won't get hurt, but - I just don't want you to do your first dive without a net, that's all.
- Cap Carson: You're putting on a circus.
- Matt Masters: Am I?
- Cap Carson: Well, it's my opinion.
- Matt Masters: In a circus you have to have artists flying through the air, like musical notes. Somebody makin' a tune with 'em. Somebody with a calliope inside.
- Cap Carson: Calliope? Well, you got steam coming out of your ears.
- Lili Alfredo: You haven't forgiven me yet, have you?
- Aldo Alfredo: In Sicily we say: Those who want forgiveness - must first knock at the gates, and wait for the devil to answer .
- Lili Alfredo: Haven't I waited long enough?
- Cap Carson: Leave 'em alone!
- Matt Masters: Leave 'em alone? It's dark out there!
- Cap Carson: Well, kids like the dark. Weren't you ever young?
- Steve McCabe: Whoever planted this stuff in here was doing everything in his power to make their love look dirty! And I just don't believe it.