- Jack Clayton: You were wonderful tonight.
- Tira: I'm always wonderful at night.
- Jack Clayton: Yes, but tonight, you were especially good.
- Tira: Well, when I'm good - I'm very good. But, when I'm bad - I'm better.
- Rajah the Fortune Teller: You have a wonderful future. I see a man in your life.
- Tira: What? Only one?
- Tira: By the way, honey, you married or single?
- Ernest Brown: Married five times.
- Tira: Five times? Wedding bells must sound like an alarm clock to you.
- Ernest Brown: I like to get around and travel; and, believe me, I've been places and seen things.
- Tira: Mmm-hmm. I've been things and seen places. That sort of evens us out.
- Tira: Always remember, honey. A good motto is: "Take all you can get and give as little as possible". Don't forget, honey. Never let one man worry your mind. Find 'em, fool 'em and forget 'em!
- [last lines]
- Jack Clayton: Oh I'm crazy about you.
- Tira: Oh, I did my best to make you that way.
- Jack Clayton: Look darling, you need a rest, and so do I. Let me take you away somewhere, we'll...
- Tira: Would you call that a rest?
- Jack Clayton: What are you thinking about?
- Tira: Same thing you are.
- [kiss, sings]
- Tira: Baby, I can warm you with this love of mine, I'm no angel, Oh, let me feel my fingers running through your hair, I can give you kisses till you... oh... .
- [after he reads her fortune, Rajah gives Tira the horoscope he has prepared for her]
- Rajah the Fortune Teller: Keep this where you may consult it frequently.
- Tira: Alright, I'll take it to bed with me.
- Alicia Hatton: I suppose you know why I'm here?
- Tira: Hardly! You see, I'm a lion tamer not a mind reader.
- Alicia Hatton: Then it might refresh you to know that I'm Kurt's fiancé.
- Tira: There's nothing refreshing about that.
- Tira: What do you do for a living?
- Ernest Brown: Oh, uh, sort of a politician.
- Tira: I don't like work either.
- Tira: Come on, can't you hurry up and get that thing fixed? I gotta get back. I'm expecting Mr. Clayton at the apartment.
- Bartons Chauffeur: I'm doing the best I can, ma'am.
- Tira: Yeah, your best is no good. Try doing your worst.
- Bartons Chauffeur: Yes, ma'am.
- Tira: [Answers phone] Hello? Oh, Juror #4. Yes, I remember you. You were the one with the nice kind face. Mmm hmm. Oh, I know you were for me. Mmm hmm. I want to thank you for those beautiful flowers. They were lovely. And don't forget - come up and see me sometime.
- [Jack Clayton walks in]
- Tira: Mmm hmm. Oh, ah, yes. Yes. Alright, good-bye.
- The Barker Flea Madigan: Tira, boys! Tira! Just look at those eyes. Just look at those eyes. Just look at those eyes. I dig those eyes. Boys, she can assume shapes that will astonish a chiropractor! And next to her a wiggling worm looks paralyzed.
- Tira: Get the idea, boys?
- The Barker Flea Madigan: I can say without fear of contradiction, that if Tira had played the town at the time - Noah would have missed the boat.
- Tira: You follow me?
- [enters the carnival tent]
- The Barker Flea Madigan: Boys, with the right kind of encouragement, she'll throw discretion to the winds - and her hips to the north, east, south and west. It's the only show on earth where the tickets are made of asbestos. And now inside, Tira, the girl who makes your dreams come true. Step right up, men.
- The Barker Flea Madigan: Now look, folks, you've got to give me your undivided attention, because I want you to hear each and every word that I'm going to say. Over there, Tira, the beautiful Tira! Dancing, singing marvel of the age! Supreme flower of feminine pulchritude! The girl who discovered you don't have to have feet to be a dancer. Boys, just push right in there, you're gonna have a better view.
- [first lines]
- The Barker Flea Madigan: All right. You will see a show of amazing, stupendous and cataclysmic proportions. Your two bits will do the work of a sawbuck. From the inside, folks, you're gonna see, right before your very eyes - without the aid of cheaters or a microscope: Joe, the Turtle Boy!
- Ernest Brown: Ya know, I never met anybody just like you before. You're different.
- Tira: Anything different always costs more - but it's worth it.
- Tira: I'm sick of people worrying about what I do. I get about as much privacy around here as a goldfish.
- Tira: [singing] Just play a passionate strain, And I'll be low down again, It's fire and it's flame, So be careful of this dame...
- The Barker Flea Madigan: She's safer in that cage than she is in bed.
- Big Bill Barton: I don't doubt it.
- Big Bill Barton: What are you calling up that shyster for?
- Tira: Because he helped me beat one rap, and he can do it again.
- Big Bill Barton: How're you mixed up in this?
- Tira: Like an olive in a dry martini.
- The Barker Flea Madigan: Are you in the mood?
- Tira: For what?
- The Barker Flea Madigan: Silk hats.
- Tira: I can get that way.
- Tira: I'm willing to do my share, I'm willing to do more than my share. I'll work them cats like they've never been worked before. If it'll make you happy, I'll even stick my head in the big cat's mouth.
- Alicia Hatton: I can't see why everybody's so absolutely gaga about her. She's obviously a person of the commonest sort.
- Mrs. Fletcher: Not at all.
- Alicia Hatton: Of course, she would impress the men. They all have low minds. And she's certainly low enough to appeal to them.