"Friends...how we happened to come to America is a great story. But I don't tell that. When we first started out, we got-a no idea you give us this-a grand reception. We donna deserve it. And when I say we donna deserve it, believe me, I know what I'm a-talkin' about...So now I tell you how we fly to America. The first time we started, we get-a halfway across when we run out-a gasoline and we gotta go back. Then I take-a twice as much gasoline. This time we-a just about to land - maybe three feet - when whaddya think? We run out-a gasoline again and a-back we go again to get-a more gas. This time I take-a plenty gas. Well, we get-a halfway over when what-a you think-a happened? We forgot-a the aeroplane. So we gotta sit down and we talk it over. Then I get-a a great idea. We no take-a gasoline. We no take-a the aeroplane. We take a steamship. And that, friends, is how we fly across the ocean."

"Can you sleep on your stomach with such big buttons on your pajamas?"

"Ladies and Gentlemen. I guess that takes in most of you. This is the opening of a new opera season, a season made possible by the generous checks of Mrs. Claypool. [Applause] I am sure the familiar strains of Verdi's music will come back to you tonight, and Mrs. Claypool's checks will probably come back in the morning. Tonight marks the American debut of Rodolfo Lassparri. [Applause] Senor Lassparri comes from a very famous family. His mother was a well known bass singer. And his father was the first man to stuff spaghetti with bicarbonate of soda, thus causing and curing indigestion at the same time. And now on with the opera. Let joy be unconfined. Let there be dancing in the streets, drinking in the saloons and necking in the parlor. Play, Don."

"The greatest heart drama of the year."

"There is no such thing as a bad boy."

"Minor Watson - The Bishop"

"I know that a mother can take a whip to the toughest boy in the world, and he forgets it because he knows that she loves him."

"Addison Richards - The Judge"

"Edward Norris - Joe Marsh"

"Gene Reynolds - Tony Ponessa"

"Leslie Fenton - Dan Farrow"

"Greater than the imagination of the best writers!"

"Henry Hull - Dave Morris"

"Mickey Rooney - Whitey Marsh"

"Spencer Tracy - Father Flanagan"

"The life story of a boy who was "born to be hung"!"

"Gregory Ratoff - Benny Pinkowitz"

"William B. Davidson - Ernest Brown"

"Dorothy Peterson - Thelma"

"Russell Hopton - "Flea" Madigan"

"Gertrude Michael - Alicia Hatton"

"Kent Taylor - Kirk Lawrence"

"Ralf Harolde - "Slick" Wiley"

"Edward Arnold - "Big Bill" Barton"

"Cary Grant - Jack Clayton"

"Mae West - Tira"

"Come up and see me sometime - any time!"

"A story about a gal who lost her reputation - and never missed it!"

"And don't forget. Come up and see me sometime."

"Well, Beulah, that's another performance under my belt and I still got the face...It's my fortune. When I was born with this face, it was the same as striking oil."

"Don't forget, honey. Never let one man worry your mind. Find 'em, fool 'em and forget 'em."

"Always remember, honey. A good motto is: Take all you can get and give as little as possible."

"I'm gonna be a bad girl and go home to bed. I'm tired of tossin' my hips."

"Am I makin' myself clear, boys? Suckers."

"A penny for your thoughts. Got the idea boys. You follow me?"

"Now go out there and be so swell that you'll make me hate you!"

"Sawyer, you listen to me, and you listen hard. Two hundred people, two hundred jobs, two hundred thousand dollars, five weeks of grind and blood and sweat depend upon you. It's the lives of all these people who've worked with you. You've got to go on, and you've got to give and give and give. They've got to like you. Got to. Do you understand? You can't fall down. You can't because your future's in it, my future and everything all of us have is staked on you. All right, now I'm through, but you keep your feet on the ground and your head on those shoulders of yours and go out, and Sawyer, you're going out a youngster but you've got to come back a star!"

"All right, now, everybody. Quiet, and listen to me. Tomorrow morning, we're gonna start a show. We're gonna rehearse for five weeks and we're gonna open on scheduled time. [He brandishes his cigarette] - And I mean scheduled time. You're gonna work and sweat and work some more. You're gonna work days and you're gonna work nights. And you're gonna work between time when I think you need it. You're gonna dance until your feet fall off and you're not able to stand up any longer. BUT five weeks from now, we're going to have a show! Now, some of you people have been with me before. You know it's gonna be a tough grind. It's gonna be the toughest five weeks that you ever lived through. Do you all get that? Now anybody who doesn't think he's gonna like it had better quit right now. What do I hear? Nobody? Good. Then that's settled. We start tomorrow morning."

"[to his financiers] You'll get your Pretty Lady. You haven't got anything to worry about. I'm not gonna let you down because I can't afford to. I've given everything I've had to that gulch down there and it's taken all I had to offer. Oh, it paid me, sure, in money I couldn't hang on to - fair-weather friends, women, headlines! Hah! Why even the cops and the newsboys recognize me on sight. 'Marsh, the Magnificent.' 'Marsh the Slave-Driver!' Actors tell ya how Marsh drove 'em and bullied 'em and even tore it out of 'em! And maybe there's a few that'll tell ya how Marsh really made 'em. And they've all got somethin' to show for it - except Marsh.Well, this is my last shot! I'll make a few more actors. But this time, I'm gonna sock my money away so hard that they'll have to blast to find enough to buy a newspaper. That's why I'm goin' ahead with Pretty Lady. And Pretty Lady's got to be a hit. It's my last show and it's got to be my best. You're counting on me. Well, I'm counting on Pretty Lady, because it's got to support me for a long time to come."

"Dick Powell - Billy Lawler"

"Ned Sparks - Barry"