- [first lines]
- Babs Riley: But Mother, this is the opportunity of my entire life! You have to have real talent to be accepted at the Van Plantan Workshop Theatre.
- Peg Riley: Theatre, huh? You'd better stop talking that way. You had your tonsils out.
- Babs Riley: All right, but Professor Van Plantan says I have a natural gift for acting.
- Peg Riley: Yeah? Well, if it's such a gift, why did it cost you 25 dollars?
- Peg Riley: All this plotting and scheming... you remind me of a girl I once knew.
- Babs Riley: Who?
- Peg Riley: Me.