- Herman Gloguaer: What did they have to go and make pictures talk for? Things were going along fine. You couldn't stop making money - even if you turned out a good picture you made money.
- May Daniels: None of these bozos have ever talked on a stage. They've never spoken lines before.
- Jerome 'Jerry' Hyland: Well they gotta learn, that's all.
- May Daniels: Sure, and who's gonna teach 'em? We'll open a school of elocution and voice culture.
- George Lewis: I don't know anything about elocution.
- May Daniels: You don't know anything about anything, George, and if what they say about the movies is true, you'll go far.
- George Lewis: This darling industry of yours is the most awful thing that I've ever run into. Why can't you people act like human beings, anyhow?
- Mrs. Walker: Susan's going to enter the talking pictures
- George Lewis: Well, that's fine. Can she talk?
- Mrs. Walker: Pardon?
- George Lewis: I say can she talk?
- Mrs. Walker: Of course she can talk.
- George Lewis: Well how do you know?
- George Lewis: I listen to her every day.
- Miss Leighton: [answering the phone] Miss Leighton at this end. Y-e-e-e-s. Oh, yes. Yes, he knows that you're waiting. How many days? Well, I'm afraid you'll just have to wait.
- Miss Leighton: What? Oh, no you couldn't possibly see Mr. Glogauer. No, I can't make an appointment for you. Mr. Weiskopf makes all of Mr. Glogauer's appointments.
- Miss Leighton: Oh, no, you can't see Mr. Weiskopf. You have to see him through Mr. Niederstein.
- Miss Leighton: A what? Oh, my! No one ever sees Mr Niederstein.
- [she hangs up]
- Miss Leighton: .
- Mr. Walker: We're getting out of this orange-flavored, sun-struck, flea-bitten country on the 4:30 train.
- Mr. Walker: And for six weeks I've been listening to that girl groan and grunt and yodel, and she still can't' act.