- Dress Designer: [referring to her gown] If your fans don't explode when you walk into that premiere tonight, I'll tear it to pieces!
- Mona Marshall: Do you really think so, Butch?
- Dress Designer: You mean you want black ones too? Why don't you get a pair of skates while you're at it. *I* want a pair of very high heeled shoe sandals!
- Jonesy: What are you gonna wear 'em with?
- Mona Marshall: Why do you do this to me? Why do you torture me like this? People! People! People! Isn't there anybody else in the world but people?
- Mona Marshall: [outraged that the studio has used a double to stand in for her at a premiere] Thousands of girls think they look like me, and where are they?
- Fuzzy: They're having their faces changed.
- Mona Marshall: [to her double] How dare you go around with a face like mine?
- Fuzzy: Why don't you send your face to Washington and have it copyrighted?
- Mona Marshall: It *is* copyrighted. For years, my face has been on the sidewalk, in front of Grauman's Chinese Theatre.
- Fuzzy: Yeah, well why don't you leave it there?
- Bernie Walton: She looks very well like Mona Marshall, but can she act like her?
- Virginia: [imitating Mona Marshall] Oh, my thyroids!
- Mona Marshall: Daddy, my father, has kept her in school most of her life. She simply adores languages.
- [to Dot]
- Mona Marshall: Now say something in Algebra, dear.
- Jonesy: [whispering] That's a dead language, Mona.
- Mona Marshall: I'll be so far away from that premiere tonight that you won't even be able to reach me with an aeroplane!
- Mona Marshall: [upon seeing Jonesy act disinterested in her airs] Pay attention!
- Jonesy: I liked you better in "Exiled Lovers."
- Jonesy: I'll never forgive you.
- Ronnie Bowers: For what?
- Jonesy: [referring to Alexander Dupre] For not blacking both his eyes.
- Virginia: [on the stage at the Hollywood Bowl] Yoo-hoo! Can you hear me?
- Ronnie Bowers: [standing at the top of the hill] I can hear you, but I can hardly see you!
- Virginia: I can see you! You look like the man in the moon!
- Mona Marshall: So you're going to sing on the radio? How nice. With whose voice?
- Alexander Dupre: Why, with my - I can't sing!
- Mona Marshall: Aren't you a little late in discovering that?
- Alexander Dupre: Why, what'll I do?
- Mona Marshall: Something could happen to your throat.
- Jonesy: You might try cutting it.
- Ronnie Bowers: Thanks. Thanks, gang. Gee, Benny, it's swell of you to come and give me this send off. You got me kinda homesick before I leave.
- Benny Goodman: Oh, forget it, kid.
- Ronnie Bowers: I'm gonna miss you kids.
- Alice: Say, you're gonna be so busy running around with those picture stars that you won't have time to miss anybody.
- Ronnie Bowers: Yes, I will too.
- Georgia: Ah, what a life. Just fallin' in and out of swimmin' pools.
- Ronnie Bowers: I'll stick around the hotel here until I get a call from the studio.
- Bernie Walton: Just relax. You're on salary.
- Mona Marshall: Oh, I do hope you'll tell every girl to stay out of pictures, Louella.
- Louella Parsons: My dear, I've been telling them that for years. But, the glamour of Hollywood is too strong.
- Louella Parsons: Mona, you still haven't told me a thing. What about your romance with Alex. Do you think two actors should marry?
- Jonesy: I think one of them should be a woman, though. Don't you?
- Mona Marshall: What?
- Jonesy: Well, that is, the one that looks the best in a veil.
- Louella Parsons: Now, Jonesy, you're confusing Mona.
- Fuzzy: Hey, Parsons, why don't you put me in a column once in awhile? I'm never in there.
- Louella Parsons: Oh, you're not news.
- Fuzzy: I'm not news. Get her. What does she want me to do? Take a bath in champagne or something?
- Louella Parsons: Soap and water will do.
- Mona Marshall: You see what my life is, Louella. Not a minute to myself. I work. I slave! And what do I get? Money. Money, money! A ridiculous fortune! But, give it to me.
- Bernie Walton: I've got to interview a horse. We just signed him up for the lead in a Western.
- Ronnie Bowers: What are you gonna say to a horse?
- Bernie Walton: I don't know yet. He's an Arabian horse. But, they'll have an interpreter there.
- Mona Marshall: What is this? Some kind of a trick? Oh, don't think I care whether or not I play the part, I haven't a selfish bone in my body. It's the millions of people that have grown to love me that I'm constantly thinking of.
- Mona Marshall: Prestige? Prestige? Hasn't my name in my pictures given you all the prestige you need?
- Mona Marshall: Is this the kind of treatment I get after giving you the best years out of my life? I've *worked* to play that part. I even went to the trouble to read the book! Well, every page that my part was on.
- Bernie Walton: Just don't forget that you're Mona Marshall.
- Virginia: I'll have a hard time remembering that I'm Virginia Stanton.
- Cleo: Miss Marshall ain't here, Mr. Faulkin. She tore outta here as mad as a dog with a tin can tied to his tail.
- Virginia: [disguised as Mona Marshall] The excitement of the premiere has made me more tired and nervous than I realized.
- Ronnie Bowers: Well, you must be tired. I never thought of that. Is there some place that you can go and rest and, well, I can kinda look at you.
- Virginia: [singing] I'm like a fish out of water when you're around, I'm like Ginger Rogers running the Brooklyn Dodgers, I'm on most unfamiliar ground, Whenever you're around...
- Ronnie Bowers: I'll never forget tonight.
- Virginia: [disguised as Mona Marshall] Why?
- Ronnie Bowers: Oh, it's my first night in Hollywood, being with you, especially, being with you. It just doesn't seem real.
- Virginia: Maybe it isn't.
- Ronnie Bowers: Oh, it is with me. You don't know it, but, I've made love with you many times. I-I-I don't mean real making love, Miss Marshall. I mean, you know, like when people watch a picture show they always put themselves in the actor's place.
- Virginia: And now you are in the actor's place.
- Ronnie Bowers: Gosh, you're a big celebrity. You're beautiful. You're glamorous. You've got swell teeth!
- Ronnie Bowers: This is all pretty exciting. I don't know what to say. It's my first day in Hollywood and I feel that maybe...
- Radio Host at Premiere: That was Ronnie Bowers, ladies and gentlemen, and now I see a great many more celebrities coming down here. I'm going to try to get some of them up to the microphone to say hello to you. I'm sure you're going to want to meet all of them.
- Mona Marshall: There are more important things going on the world, Miss. Jones. There happens to be a very serious war in China. I haven't had a picture released there in more than a year now.
- Alexander Dupre: They should be deported!
- Mona Marshall: Yes! And they should be sent back to the country they came from!
- Virginia: [singing] I feel all wet and it's no wonder I do
- Ronnie Bowers: That's how I get when I'm with you...
- Mona Marshall: Where's the paper? I wonder if there's anything in there about the premiere last night?
- Jonesy: Right there. I wonder if there's anything in there about the premiere last night?
- Mona Marshall: Oh, I suppose so. The usual. I don't see why they think my pictures are so important.
- Jonesy: I've often wondered about that myself.
- Ronnie Bowers: Oh! Then it was Mona Marshall who slapped me.
- Bernie Walton: Oh, it wasn't Joe Lewis.
- Ronnie Bowers: It felt like it.
- Bernie Walton: Oh, well. All's fair in love and war and the publicity department.
- Ronnie Bowers: You promised to show me the town. I haven't seen anything yet.
- Virginia: Where were you when I pointed out the Cocoanut Grove, the Trocadero, and the Brown Derby?
- Ronnie Bowers: I was lookin' at you.
- The Russian: Go away, you romance wrecker! Zis boy loves zis girl. Shouldn't affect where he loves her. Do little birdies look where they are when they make love? Love. Love, love, love, love, love, love, love. Love is a beautiful thing!
- Director Kelton: No. No dear. Let me explain to you. My sweet child. You've got to suffer. You've got to feel from your heart. Your lover has gone away. You may never return. Don't you understand? Right from the heart! Now, all right, dear. Go ahead and suffer. Let me see it.
- Chester Marshall: [in blackface] Hi! Hi! Hi-hi! Ho! Ho! Ho-ho. Hee. Hee. Hee-hee. Whoa. Whoa. Whoa-whoa! Whoa. Whoa. Whoa-whoa!
- Director Kelton: Cut it! Cut it! Who is that punky over there?
- Chester Marshall: Hi-di-hi-di-hi! Whoa-whoa! Whoa! Whoa.
- Director Kelton: Come on, come on. Get up out of there. What's the big idea?
- Chester Marshall: Ho-ho, Mr. Kelton. Some make-up, huh? Some make-up. Some make-up. Do you know who I am? Mona's father: Uncle Tom. Uncle Tom.
- Fuzzy: This is an out-and-out stick up. What's the matter with you?
- Ronnie Bowers: Well, what if it is? The worm has turned.
- Ronnie Bowers: Look, you were right and I was wrong. Nobody likes to admit his girl has more sense than he has.
- Virginia: Oh, I'm too smart to ever let you admit that now.
- Bernie Walton: The things I do for All Star Pictures.
- Photographer: This meets a new low. Gettin' up at seven o'clock in the morning to meet a saxophone player.
- Bernie Walton: For fifteen years I met boats and trains. Then, they started this plane business. When they begin shootin' 'em out here in rockets, I'll quit.
- Photographer: Me too.
- Bernie Walton: That must be him.
- Photographer: They're not going to make a picture star outta him.
- Bernie Walton: Why not? They made one outta Rin Tin Tin, didn't they?
- Photographer: Yeah; but, he could bark.
- Benny Goodman Drummer: [singing and drumming] Be an actor, See Mr. Factor, You make your kisser look good...
- Ken Niles: Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. This is Ken Niles welcoming you to: Hollywood Hotel. Tonight is a gala night at the Orchid Room.
- Mona Marshall: [shocked to find her father in blackface on the movie set] Father, what is all this ridiculous nonsense?
- Chester Marshall: Oh, Missy, Missy. Don't let them send me down the river. Don't let Simon Legree beat me no more. I fix my cotton by the bale. By the bale. Don't let them sell me down the river. Oh, no. Oh, no.