- Patricia 'Patsy' Patterson: It's only youngsters that have to watch their step. Old people don't have to be respectable. Old people are respectable in spite of themselves.
- Patricia 'Patsy' Patterson: I always say to everybody, if you have to go before a judge, get Judge Daly. His bark is worse than his bite. And even if he is a Democrat, he has an understanding heart.
- Judge Daly: I've made up my mind. You're off the streets for good this time. The only thing to do with rubbish is to get rid of it!
- Judge Daly: The point is, you were drunk and disorderly.
- Patricia 'Patsy' Patterson: Oh, Judge, drunk, maybe, but, never disorderly.
- Judge Daly: Violation of the morals code. Fan dance. Georgie Lee.
- Front O'Malley: Better known as Alabam - the human heatwave.
- Patricia 'Patsy' Patterson: I'm high strung. And when a man like that puts his hands on me, I'm apt to forget myself.
- Alabam Lee: I don't know anything about charity. I never got any and never handed out any.
- Judge Daly: Your'e not accused of *charity*, young lady. You're accused of violation of the morals code. And from what I know of your reputation, it's high time something was done about it.
- Alabam Lee: Cigarette, Patsy?
- Patricia 'Patsy' Patterson: No, thanks. I don't smoke. But, I do drink.
- Kendall: Can't you ever get serious? Are you gonna be a goose all your life?
- Alabam Lee: Yeah and I'm the kind of goose that's apt to lay gold eggs on a minutes notice.
- Kendall: Don't flatter yourself. They're only gold plated since they took that fan away from you.
- Alabam Lee: Is that so? Remember that it's me they come to see at the Montmartre, not the fan.
- Patricia 'Patsy' Patterson: Now, see here, Your Honor. When you first went into politics, I voted for you! Twice in the same day.
- Kendall: Cut out the magnolia dialect you crummy old beer guzzler.
- Patricia 'Patsy' Patterson: Crummy old beer guzzler? You dirty low down, floor flusher! You rotten, yellow dog! What kind of language is that to use to a lady?
- Kendall: Lady? Huh! I know just who you are and just what gutter you came out of!
- Patricia 'Patsy' Patterson: I don't know much about the right things to do. But, I can tell you all about the wrong things not to do. You see, I've done 'em all.
- Johnny Mills: You're so utterly different than I expected, that I...
- Alabam Lee: Well, what did you expect?
- Johnny Mills: Well, I don't know. A sort of a - kind of a...
- Alabam Lee: That's it. A sort of a, kind of a. In fact, you might call me a kind of a, sort of a.
- Kendall: Even at two-fifty a week runs to over ten grand a year. That's a whole lot better than the ten cents a dance you were getting when I first ran into you. That's where you started and if you let this old battle axe hang around you, that's where you'll end up.
- Alabam Lee: Look me over. Well?
- Johnny Mills: Having looked you over, I find the results - immanently satisfactory. So much so, in fact, I've decided to see more of you.
- Alabam Lee: You'll have to come down to the Montmartre for that.
- Johnny Mills: I'll be there. Tonight.
- Patricia 'Patsy' Patterson: What's that you're reading?
- Alabam Lee: "Famous Women of History" - all about Josephine, Du Barry, and Pompadour.
- Patricia 'Patsy' Patterson: You would pick out a book like that.
- Alabam Lee: Swell book! Those three babies certainly knew their stallions. Learn about women from them.
- Patricia 'Patsy' Patterson: They were low women.
- Alabam Lee: Well, maybe they started low, but they aimed high.
- Opper: I've told you before, there's no place for a fan dancer in this show.
- Patricia 'Patsy' Patterson: Fan dancer? What are you talking about?
- Opper: Well, that's the way she started isn't it?
- Patricia 'Patsy' Patterson: Lincoln started as a rail splitter, didn't he?
- Patricia 'Patsy' Patterson: Did you ever hear of Jack Dempsey?
- Alabam Lee: Yeah, that's the guy that married Hannah Williams, isn't it?
- Patricia 'Patsy' Patterson: He was an unknown youngster until Jack Kearns got ahold of him. Kearns made a champ out of that kid - just as I'm going to make a champ out of you.
- Alabam Lee: Champ or chump? I'm no leather pusher.
- Patricia 'Patsy' Patterson: It doesn't matter what you are. I'm only interested in what you're going to be. A winner!
- Patricia 'Patsy' Patterson: Once you knock off your Shakespeare, everything else rolls off your knife.
- Lucretia: That's too tight. You must loosen up here. See how I do it. Watch how I do it. It comes from here. Volume. Power. Now, look at my mouth.
- Alabam Lee: I refuse to answer on the ground that it would tend to...
- Johnny Mills: Degrade and intimidate you?
- Alabam Lee: No. Degrade and intimidate you.
- Johnny Mills: Someday I'm going to build a dance floor right in the middle of the ocean. Then I'll hire Paul Whiteman and his orchestra to come and play for us in the moonlight. Just we two. And we'll dance and dance - until he runs out of music.
- Alabam Lee: I have a rough idea you like dancing with me.
- Alabam Lee: Mama's going hunting.
- Patricia 'Patsy' Patterson: For what?
- Alabam Lee: Bank roll. No penny ante either. No more fishing for shrimp. A whale! That's what I'm after. Somebody with a ton of money.
- Johnny Mills: What am I supposed to do? Go back to my office and blow out my brains? Well, don't worry, I won't. Principally because I haven't got any brains.
- Kendall: Have you still got that old fan of your's?
- Alabam Lee: Yes. It's in mothballs, but, it's just as good as ever.
- Kendall: Well, dig it up. I'll put you on at the club tonight.
- Alabam Lee: What are you worrying about now? Everybody's satisfied. You. His mother. Judge Daly. Everything's all right. "God's in his heaven and all's right with the world." Johnny read that to me one night out of a book. Somebody by the name of Browning wrote it. A poem.
- Patricia 'Patsy' Patterson: What are we hanging around here for?
- Judge Daly: I'm waiting for Miss Lee's answer.
- Patricia 'Patsy' Patterson: That is none of our - damn business.
- Alabam Lee: I'll be putty in your hands. Where do we go from here?
- Patricia 'Patsy' Patterson: Up to glory. No more hip shaking in a honky tonk. But, a real career. I'm going to make a headliner, a star out of you. I've got everything figured out. It's all I've been thinking of ever sense I came here. Now, in the first place...
- Alabam Lee: Wait a minute. There's something much more important than that. Let's get drunk.