- Bill Green: [singing] Girls, I sat up last night. Right on side the bed. Why I wrote a song that's just too bad children it will knock you dead. I know you've all danced the Charleston, The Black Bottom away. Now, stand at attention, prance awhile, dos jes as I say... Wo-doddle-e-do!
- Black Orchids: What's that?
- Bill Green: Bill Robinson's Stomp.
- Dusty Fletcher: Boy, where was you born at?
- Bill Green: I was born in Russia.
- Dusty Fletcher: What part?
- Bill Green: The darkest part of Asia.
- Dusty Fletcher: Did you ever live near the Black Sea?
- Bill Green: Brother, I bathed in the Black Sea.
- Dusty Fletcher: And you forgot to dry off.
- Parson: [singing] For better or worse, do you take this man?
- The Bride - Harlem Honeymoon: I'm gonna take him every way I can.
- Parson: Will you keep her happy, answer?
- Bill Green: Parson, I ain't had no compliant from anyone.
- Parson: No two-timin' boy, get that in your knob.
- The Bride - Harlem Honeymoon: If he's two-timin', parson, you gonna have a funeral job.
- Bill Green: Tell Mr. Brown, Bill Green is here to see him.
- Janitor: Mr. Brown don't wanna see no Bill Green.
- Bill Green: By the way, do you play the numbers?
- Janitor: Do a horse eat corn?
- Bill Green: 4-48 tomorrow will get it.
- Janitor: Well, hush my mouth.
- Bill Green: Mr Brown, just a minute. All I want you to do is give me one chance and I know I'll make good, 'cause I've been rehearsing. And man, I've got a tap routine and I know your audience will be wild about it.
- Mr. Brown: I've got too much money invested in this show to be bothered with any amateurs.
- Bill Green: I ain't no amateur. I been on for an audience for years!
- Mr. Brown: Where did you ever dance before an audience?
- Bill Green: On the street corner.
- Mr. Brown: Here's a couple of dollars. Maybe that'll hep you get on your feet.
- Bill Green: I don't want no couple of dollars.
- Mr. Brown: Oh, no?
- Bill Green: Well, just a minute, I want a job in your show.
- Mr. Brown: Will you stop followin' me.
- Bill Green: I'm gonna follow you till I get two shades lighter.
- Mr. Brown: Your show or mine.
- Bill Green: That's all I wanna hear you say. Mine or yours.
- Mr. Brown: Mine or yours.
- Pipe Smoking Stagehand: Mr. Brown isn't cheer. You better git going.
- Bill Green: Mr. Brown ain't gonna be here. That sign don't read No Smoking. It reads Brown's Black Orchids has turned to Green and you better git going.
- Bill Green: Say, son, listen. That routine is out.
- Mr. Brown's Dance Director: What do you mean out?
- Bill Green: I mean just what I say because I've got too much money wrapped up in this show to be bothered with any amateurs.
- Mr. Brown's Dance Director: But, you can't call me an amateur. I've been in this business for the past 20 years, boy.
- Bill Green: Boy? How big does men grow where you come from? So, the 21st year, you resign. Beat it! Get on outta here. Go ahead. Get out.
- Limehouse Brown: Why is goldfish red?
- Emcee: I don't know, Limehouse. Why is goldfish red?
- Limehouse Brown: Well, if you swam around all day in a glass bowl with no clothes on, you'd blush too!
- Muriel Rahn: [singer] Got the jitters. Got the jitters. Got the jitters. Got the jitters. Got the jitters...