- Frank Claymore: Don't try to act funny. Just *feel* funny. The camera photographs exactly what you are thinking of.
- Frank Claymore: If you could only cry like this for the screen! The public pays a higher price for tears than for smiles.
- Frank Claymore: I'll make an actress of you if I have to break your heart and every bone in your body.
- Owen Scudder: Your salary pays for pearls?
- Remember 'Mem' Steddon: They're not real.
- Owen Scudder: Is there anything about you that *is* real? You - actress!
- Remember 'Mem' Steddon: The money I slave for is real.
- Frank Claymore: I can't offer you much except hard work and the privilege of being torn to pieces by the critics. But I'll build your soul to its height--and sell it for you to the world, if you'll let me.
- Remember 'Mem' Steddon: I'm proud to have you love me, but you mustn't--you mustn't.
- Rev. John Steddon: O Hollywood! Hollywood! Thou movie-mammon that leadest our children astray, and teaches them wickedness! O Los Angeles, thy name should be Los Diaboles!
- Title Card: Robina played such impossibly virtuous sweeties before the camera that she just had to be a bit catty when things went wrong away from the lens.
- Title Card: Mem had heard that the only way to succeed in the Movies is to Sell your Soul. She had nothing else left to sell.
- Frank Claymore: I'm a little nervous about coming into your nice little prison. According to some people you ought to keep us here.
- Title Card: That very night Mem wore her furs decollate at one of the famous Thursday Night Hops at the Hollywood Hotel. Many of the famous movie stars dance there until the heathenish hours of eleven thirty.
- Owen Scudder: I'm sure you prefer the kisses of your lovers on the screen.
- Remember 'Mem' Steddon: I get paid for taking their kisses. That's part of my work.
- Owen Scudder: Well, what are you going to do with me?
- Frank Claymore: Turn you over to the police.
- Remember 'Mem' Steddon: No--no--think of the publicity--the newspapers! You said yourself that scandal was fatal to an actress!
- Frank Claymore: You don't want me to turn this thug loose?
- Frank Claymore: Mem, darling, but can you play one more scene?
- Remember 'Mem' Steddon: Anything--anything--you want me to.
- Frank Claymore: Holby, I'd be much obliged if you'd leave that nice little girl alone.
- Tom Holby: What's it to you?
- Frank Claymore: None of your damned business.
- Title Card: "Komikal Kale - The Klown" cherished a hopeless love for Leva Lemaire, the screen's best hated vampire.
- Arthur Tirrey: Say, are you trying to vamp me?
- Miss Velma Slade: I must have work. I know that I must pay 'the price'.
- Arthur Tirrey: You poor simp! Selling yourself to me wouldn't sell you to the director or the producer. It's the public you've got to sell yourself to - not to us!
- Title Card: They took Mem into the stock company for $35 a week.
- Frank Claymore: When an actor gets into trouble, they blame the screen. A scandal is fatal to any one in the moving pictures.
- Title Card: Mem had a bad case of jazz-fright.
- Title Card: [after final scene, this is the final intertitle before "The End," in Omniscient Voice] "They are only players, after all; but they mean well and work hard, spinning pictures for the amusement of strangers. And they can never know, until it is too late to change, whether their toil will win them censure or applause."