- Eileen Sherwood: I've already seen three producers this morning.
- Frank Lippincott: Don't tell me they weren't interested?
- Eileen Sherwood: They were interested all right, but not in my acting.
- Receptionist: Mr. Wallace, she isn't on the list.
- Mr. Wallace: Don't be so technical, Miss Stevenson. Was America on Columbus' map?
- Robert 'Bob' Baker: I didn't mean to offend you.
- Ruth Sherwood: Offend me? Just because you said I write like a frustrated old maid?
- Ted 'Wreck' Loomis: We're engaged. Oh, look, I don't want you to get the wrong idea. It's just that we can't afford to get married and we can't afford two apartments. I'm out of work right now. So when Helen's at work, I sleep and then when she sleeps, I do the housework. We don't see much of each other, so we get along just great. I can see you girls still think thats a little strange?
- Ruth Sherwood: Only because were from Ohio.
- Ted 'Wreck' Loomis: Oh, yeah! I guess that would make a difference.
- Eileen Sherwood: That's the trouble with you. You've got a complex or something. You're a lot more attractive than you think you are.
- Ruth Sherwood: You're close. I'm a lot more attractive than men think I am.
- Ruth Sherwood: How much is this apartment?
- 'Papa' Appopolous: Only $65.
- Ruth Sherwood: $65! For this concrete catacomb?
- Ruth Sherwood: There we are now, the Sherwood sisters - one would-be writer and one would-be actress, in search of fame, fortune, and a for rent sign on Barrow Street. The one in red, thats me. And the beautiful blond, thats my sister Eileen.
- 'Papa' Appopolous: Youth. You have this great metropolis grovelling at your feet like *a passionate* lover.
- Eileen Sherwood: Whats the matter?
- Ruth Sherwood: This bed.
- Eileen Sherwood: They are kind of hard, aren't they?
- Ruth Sherwood: Hard? We could do better at the morgue.
- 'Papa' Appopolous: You see, that's our secret. You've got to have confidence in yourself. Miss Sherwood, you could be - a female Shakespeare.
- Frank Lippincott: Where you been, Chick? Haven't seen you around in a while.
- Chick: I've been up to Atlantic City, covering the Miss America contest. Frank, old boy, our country's never been in such good shape.
- Helen: He's real handy. He could clean up and do the dishes and...
- Ted 'Wreck' Loomis: But no sewing! That's woman's work.
- Chick: She and that soda jerk are getting along swell.
- Eileen Sherwood: He's not a soda jerk, he's the fountain manager.
- Helen: Did you get the job?
- Eileen Sherwood: Did I get - they wanted to know if I stripped!
- Helen: What?
- Eileen Sherwood: Thats a burlesque theatre.
- Frank Lippincott: No.
- Eileen Sherwood: I didnt even get a chance to audition. He looked at me with those beady eyes...
- Ruth Sherwood: Faint heart never won fair lady.
- Frank Lippincott: You mean I should take the bit in my teeth.
- Ruth Sherwood: Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
- Frank Lippincott: Thats easier said than done.
- Ruth Sherwood: [singing] Professor, I don't mean maybe, When I shake a footsie, With my tootsie-wootsie...
- Miss Stewart: As I was telling you, Mr. Powers was terribly upset that I couldn't do the bathing suit for Vogue. But I already had a hat layout for Harpers. With all the models in New York, you'd think they could find one to do a simple bathing suit layout. Everybody told me how hard it would be to get started modeling, but I didn't have any trouble at all. My folks wanted me to be a stenographer, but that takes *so* much studying.
- Frank Lippincott: He seems like a very nice fellow. Very nice. I think he's got me mixed up with somebody else, though. Who is he?
- Ruth Sherwood: He's just a fellow who's got me mixed up with somebody else.
- Robert 'Bob' Baker: [singing] One mad unforgettable night, Is worth a lifetime of dreams, We'd be fools to fight it...
- Frank Lippincott, Eileen Sherwood, Ruth Sherwood, Chick: [singing] Give me that sound, That makes a gal and her fellow yell, Hot diggity dog!
- Robert 'Bob' Baker: By the way, who was the beautiful blond?
- Ruth Sherwood: Oh, her. Oh, she's a friend of my friend's friend.
- Frank Lippincott: I just didn't think that you and your sister - were quite that - bohemian.
- Eileen Sherwood: Bohemian!
- Helen's Mother: I've never been so mortified in my life! Imagine me, Chairman of the Women's League, a jailbird. My only daughter mixed up with a - muscle-bound sex fiend.
- Helen: Yeah, Mom and I love him!
- Ruth Sherwood: I can see the headlines now, "Sherwood Sisters Incite Riot, Create International Incident With Brazil."
- Eileen Sherwood: Ugh, Frank's really going to think I'm "Bohemian" now.
- Robert 'Bob' Baker: Your sister's very attractive.
- Ruth Sherwood: She's beautiful, isn't she.
- Robert 'Bob' Baker: She's lovely.
- Ruth Sherwood: She's got a wonderful personality.
- Robert 'Bob' Baker: Yeah, she's got a great figure.