- Satin (a prostitute): The day I can't handle the likes of him, I best get me a needle and thread and sew it shut.
- Driver who picked up Polly: You ever seen the Pacific? Everybody should see it once before they are plowed under.
- Polly Franklin: Yeah. Sure. California.
- Anna Sage: Ok. Room and board. But if I even catch you sniffing around my girls, I will personally snip it off.
- Polly Franklin: She uses hedge clippers too kid.
- John Dillinger: What's to know? I have two arms. Two legs. And I know all the words to Yes, I have no bananas.
- Anna Sage: When I come here, they drag me right off the boat and put me in a harness. The land of opportunity. I worked naked, in a crib, for nickels and dimes and I kept the coins in my mouth because I didn't have no pockets, see.
- [first lines]
- Polly Franklin: In the heart of little old New York, You'll find a thoroughfare. It's the part of little old New York That runs into Times Square. A crazy quilt that "Wall Street Jack" built, If you've got a little time to spare, I want to take you there. Come and meet those dancing feet, On the avenue I'm taking you to, Forty-Second Street.
- [last lines]
- Driver who picked up Polly: You ever seen the Pacific? Everybody should see it once before they are plowed under.
- Polly Franklin: Yeah. Sure. California.