- 'Flips' Montague: Hello, Countess.
- The Countess: Oh, hello Flips! Where you been all the time?
- 'Flips' Montague: The last couple of days they've been shootin' scenes that I'm not in. So, I had my hair cleaned and pressed and here I am.
- The Countess: The old place ain't the same without what's-his-name.
- 'Flips' Montague: Who?
- The Countess: The Sheik of Simsbury.
- 'Flips' Montague: Look, if I get you a ticket back to Simsbury, will you go?
- Merton Gill: Oh, no.
- 'Flips' Montague: For the love of Pete, why not?
- Merton Gill: I couldn't. Not the way I feel about pictures. I mean, just think, making millions of people happy everyday, the way Buck Benson does. Even trying to do it, that's worth sacrificin' and sufferin' for it, isn't it?
- 'Flips' Montague: Oh, I don't know whether its blind courage or supreme dumbness. Oh, how I hate pictures.
- Merton Gill: Do taxi cabs charge for just standing still?
- 'Flips' Montague: Yes, why?
- Merton Gill: Well, it's worth it.
- [Buries his head in her chest]
- Mr. Gashwiler: I'm gonna get to the bottom of this! If he don't stop lollygaggin' and moonin' around, I'm gonna get a new boy.
- Mr. Gashwiler: Phonograph records, pictures, diploma for acting, and a cowboy suit! So, that's what's wrong with you, eh? Well, it's got to stop, you hear me! Makin' yourself the laughin' stock of the whole town.
- Mr. Gashwiler: Don't you back talk to me! After all we've done for you. Takin' you out of the orphan asylum and given ya a good home! And a good job. Why, I even planned to taking you into partnership someday.
- Merton Gill: I got a career ahead of me and I'm not gonna let anybody stop me. I've been studyin'. And I been savin' too! For when I go to Hollywood. That's were I'm goin' someday! Hollywood!
- The Countess: Tell me, of all the different types of parts you play, what is the best thing you do?
- Merton Gill: Well, miss, I reckon Western parts are my forty.
- 'Flips' Montague: Now, listen, kid, I bet you think I'm hard boiled, don't cha? Well, maybe I am. Its just 'cause I know what its all about, that's all. Don't feel bad when I tell you, that, that you haven't got a Chinaman's chance.
- Merton Gill: I don't know where you like to eat, but, well, I kinda like to celebrate. You know and go to one of those places where, where they charge sixty cents for a plate of soup. Can you imagine, sixty cents for a plate of soup?