Give a Girl a Break (1953)

Bob Fosse: Bob Dowdy

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• Bob Dowdy : Wait a minute. This is show business! There's nothing you can't do in show business. You just got to try a little harder, that's all.

  Leo Belney : That's all.

  Ted Sturgis : That's all!

  Ted Sturgis , Bob Dowdy : [singing]  There's no other way, Beginning today, You're going to work, Under pressure

  Leo Belney : But pressure, I will not know where I'm at

  Ted Sturgis , Bob Dowdy : You've gotta come through, And isn't it true, The new stuff you write, May be fresher

  Leo Belney : Yes, I've a thesis, Masterpieces, Often happen like that...

• Felix Jordan : Where is she?

  Bob Dowdy : She's in her dressing room. She's crying and she won't come out.

  Ted Sturgis : Don't look at me. I've been milk and honey.

• Bob Dowdy : Suzy, you don't know how wonderful it is to meet someone like you. Someone I can, converse with.

  Suzy Doolittle : That's the way I feel too. Everything's so crazy nowadays, that there's so many things I'd like to ask you, things I couldn't talk to my mother about. Like, for instance, rocket ships and what if you get to like someone and the first thing you know, he might have to go off and, or, all sorts of things.

  Bob Dowdy : Yeah.

  [singing] 

  Bob Dowdy : The state of the world is such, That the world is in quite a state! But let's not worry too much, Let the rest of the world debate, Right now the thing to discuss, Is the wonderful status of us! The state of our union, Hearts in communion, Never will know any foreign entanglements, Outsiders will not rate, In our united state...