- Margie Evans: There's plenty of love to be had without making a mess of things. I've made up my mind that any time I hand myself to a man for life, it's cash on delivery. I'm sorry, ma, but what I said goes!
- Margie Evans: Go get ready, Soph. I know just where to take you. I've heard the girls in the store talk about these things.
- Sophie: Say, Marg, did you put in my pink nightgown?
- Margie Evans: Which?
- Sophie: You know, the one that I paid eight dollars for!
- Margie Evans: Oh, no. Where is it?
- Sophie: Oh, don't tell me it isn't here!
- Margie Evans: It'll show somewhere.
- Sophie: Oh, what'll I do? I can't go to Atlantic City with a man without a nightgown!
- Jimmie Slocum: You know, when you're gettin' in people's back doors, you get a pretty good slant on life.
- Margie Evans: What's yours, Book of Knowledge?
- Jimmie Slocum: Just this, grouchy, there's so much grief and so much happiness in everybody's life. You never know what's around the corner. And most of your troubles come from trying to find out.
- Jimmie Slocum: Others have their troubles too.
- Margie Evans: You know, Jimmie, you're an awfully nice fellow, but sometimes you give me a terrible pain.
- Jimmie Slocum: Where you got it, honey?
- Margie Evans: Right in the neck.
- Lucille: The next time I come into this shop, after Saturday, it'll be as a customer.
- Seamstress: You don't tell me?
- Lucille: Oh, I do, my dear. My career. Sal's got me a job in the "Scandal".
- Seamstress: You would get a break.
- Lucille: Oh, the boyfriend's got influence. I've got five lines in the first act. Well, that is if the cops don't take three of them out.
- Raymond Harding: [Watching Margie stand in front of a fan in her underclothes] Deadly weather for this sort of thing.
- Margie Evans: Oh, I'll say so. Gee, what I could do to a coke.
- Raymond Harding: A coke?
- Margie Evans: Oh, I guess you'd call it a Coca-Cola.
- Jimmie Slocum: Wasn't you paradin' for that guy Harding?
- Margie Evans: I can't help who I'm told to model for, can I? You ought to be glad I had a chance.
- Jimmie Slocum: Yeah. Me like a sap waiting outside a restaurant while you show your shape to that heel.
- Penthouse Male Party Gues: Don't be sore.
- Penthouse Female Party Guest: Take your hands off me. I'm not hired to take your insults and I won't! There's your junk.
- [returns jewelry]
- Penthouse Male Party Gues: Oh, baby, don't be a fool.
- Penthouse Female Party Guest: You poor half-wit! You don't know the difference between your horses and your women! There's the rest of your harness!
- Penthouse Male Party Gues: Where you going?
- Penthouse Female Party Guest: Back to pounding a typewriter. Thank you.
- Margie Evans: A girls got to use her brains to get anything out of this life! May I have another drink, please?
- Sophie: Oh, its wonderful, all right, when you get the one you love. Look at Alf. Yesterday, when he said Atlantic City for the honeymoon, I almost fell over. Aw, that boy is certainly out to treat me grand!
- Minister at Wedding: I require and charge you both, as you will answer that dreadful day of judgment when the secrets of all hearts shall be disclosed, that if either of you know any impediment why ye may not be lawfully joined together in matrimony, ye do now confess it.
- Jimmie Slocum: I thought that dame's been dressin' kinda classy lately.
- Margie Evans: I suppose she's worried about what *you* think.
- Jimmie Slocum: Hmm. Well, she's none of my grief.
- Jimmie Slocum: I don't get you tonight, Marg?
- Margie Evans: Use your brains, you might.
- Jimmie Slocum: Why you talk like that dame's okay.
- Margie Evans: Maybe other people have a right to see things their way.
- Jimmie Slocum: Say, are you boosting her racket?
- Margie Evans: Would I like clothes like her or a car like that or go somewhere besides joints or send my mother off for a rest or anything a sane girl would like? Well, just ask me.
- Margie Evans: If I could be sitting on top of the world, would I be a sap to pass it up?
- Jimmie Slocum: I don't think you mean that Marg.
- Margie Evans: I'm not supposed to think when you come around.
- Jimmie Slocum: Not like that. You're all wet!
- Margie Evans: Yeah?
- Jimmie Slocum: Plenty!
- Margie Evans: Look at this. 85 is what I make a month. 34 for rent. 30 for groceries. That's car fare and that's lunch money. That leaves around 10 a month to put in the bank!
- Mrs. Evans: Margie!
- Margie Evans: We're going to move out of this dump to a decent neighborhood.
- Jimmie Slocum: What'a a matter, babe? Weren't things lookin' up this morning?
- Margie Evans: Oh sure, they've got to look up. They're flat on their back!
- Model #1: Candy darling?
- Model #2: Do you think I'm crazy?
- Model #1: I don't have to worry. I've got a new masseur. He uses a sledgehammer, but he took me down two inches.
- Model #3: I tried one of those rough guys once. Afterwards, my hips were wider than Joe Brown's mouth.
- Margie Evans: [on the phone] Hello? Oh, Jimmie, gee I'm awfully sorry but I won't be able to have lunch with you. - Well, I'm modeling! - Yeah! The swellest coat in the place. Its just a break. Gee, I've hardly a stitch on! Oh, well, I mean, eh, I haven't got on an evening gown like the other girls. - Well, François made me do it.
- Jimmie Slocum: [on the phone] Oh, you're posing for that guy. Well, listen, I know all about him. - Yeah, he's girl nutty! Now, you look out.
- Raymond Harding: I've got a - a swimming pool, on a roof. Would you like to come up and cool off?
- Margie Evans: Oh, gee, that - that'd be swell!
- Jimmie Slocum: So, they've got you modeling now, heh? For the rich boys. First crack outta the box, this.
- [referring to Margie's orchid corsage]
- Jimmie Slocum: I guess the next thing, I'll see you walkin' into a Rolls Royce.
- Margie Evans: Oh, don't be an ass!
- Jimmie Slocum: Oh, so you're talkin' like them too, eh?
- Margie Evans: I came to see if you'd lend me two hundred dollars.
- Raymond Harding: Oh, well, this is serious, isn't it?
- Margie Evans: Yes, it is, but, I'll pay it back.
- Raymond Harding: How?
- Margie Evans: From my salary. Something each week.
- Raymond Harding: Oh. Wouldn't you take it as a gift?
- Margie Evans: Yes. If its necessary. I suppose thats the only way you lend money to girls like me.
- Raymond Harding: Yes, that's, eh, that seems to be the, eh, the customary arrangement.
- Margie Evans: I understand.
- Raymond Harding: Well, let's have a little drinkie.
- Raymond Harding: I see you simply crave champagne.
- Margie Evans: Yes, I do.
- Raymond Harding: Well, fortunately, there's plenty of it. You know, you're the prettiest girl here tonight.
- Raymond Harding: You'd be a great success.
- Margie Evans: I mean to be! May I have another drink Mr. Hard - Raymond.
- Raymond Harding: You've been married too?
- Margie Evans: No. Luckily, I-I saw what was coming so I gave Jimmie the air.
- Raymond Harding: Oh. Well, is Jimmie a brute?
- Margie Evans: Nah, he's a prince. But, marriage is a bunk, at least for poor people.
- Raymond Harding: I don't think you care for that.
- Margie Evans: Why, I'll learn to like it.
- Raymond Harding: Too much practice, makes one - mechanical.