- Bill Blake: Did you have to give 'em two of our best staterooms?
- Captain Grey Holden: Well, you heard what she said - he's a great actor.
- Bill Blake: Look, Grey, every hambone that comes down the river doesn't necessarily have the three-cents-a-mile passage money.
- Captain Grey Holden: Blake, you just don't fish somebody out of the river and then stick your hand in their pockets.
- Captain Grey Holden: Blake, life isn't just gettin' up the river on schedule, it's livin' a little along the way!
- Bill Blake: I'm for that...
- Captain Grey Holden: Besides, what other riverboat can boast having Sir Oliver Garrett and His Royal Reporatory Company aboard, huh?
- Bill Blake: Well, the only other one that can is on the bottom of the river.
- [Holden presses Garnett about the details regarding the sinking of his previous boat]
- Sir Oliver Garnett: I can't remember names, dates, places...
- Captain Grey Holden: Well, then how do you remember your lines?
- Sir Oliver Garnett: I am an actor, sir, not a clerk! I am not expected to remember petty details.
- [Garnett and Juliet plot to gain Holden's support]
- Sir Oliver Garnett: Juliet, the way he looked at you...
- Juliet: He did, didn't he?
- Sir Oliver Garnett: The way you looked at him - that's what worries me.
- Captain Grey Holden: Does your husband know you're here or did he send you up here?
- Juliet: No.
- Captain Grey Holden: "No," he doesn't know you're here or "No," he didn't send you up here?
- Juliet: No, he's not my husband.
- [last lines]
- Captain Grey Holden: You know, Julie, you were honest with me, I'd better be honest with you. Show business is fine...
- Juliet: It's just the one-night stands...
- Captain Grey Holden: Well, that's life on the river - different town every night.
- Juliet: Different girl...
- Captain Grey Holden: Well, I just want you to know... I didn't want you to get any wrong ideas.
- Juliet: Oh, I understand.
- Captain Grey Holden: You do? In that case having you...
- [Grey realises Julie has left him and chuckles]
- Captain Grey Holden: Great performance...