- Jimmy Barnes: Look, Gray, let's skip tea if you don't mind. I didn't come 3,00 miles for orange pekoe.
- Stewardess: We're in Mountain Time now, you'd better change your watches.
- Constance Marlowe: Oh, dear, I wish everybody had the same kinda time. I get all mixed up. It's really four, only we have to say it's five, and in New York everybody thinks its two.
- Baron Rene de Montigny: No, no, no, no! In New York it is wh, uh, shaseeza... it is eight. In China it is two. But it is yesterday.
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- Constance Marlowe: But we're not going to China.
- Baron Rene de Montigny: No.
- Constance Marlowe: And if we don't get to New York until yesterday, we might as well have taken the train.
- Baron Rene de Montigny: Hmmm?
- Linda Gray: You may serve tea now, uh, Celeste.
- Maggie: Yes, mum.
- Jimmy Barnes: Celeste?
- Linda Gray: Yes. I've always wanted a maid named Celeste, so I call her Celeste. Her name's Maggie.
- Jimmy Barnes: Maggie?
- Linda Gray: Celeste.
- Linda Gray: You've been a dear. You know I'm grateful.
- Alexander Duncan: Oh, nonsense. I haven't had so much fun since I defended that fan dancer.
- Jimmy Barnes: Don't confide in... He's after your money
- Linda Gray: What are you after, Jimmy?
- Jimmy Barnes: My money.