- Mr. Jordan: Same old Max, one of my favorite people.
- Messenger 7013: Mine too. When does he join us?
- Mr. Jordan: Mr. Corkle is an agent.
- Messenger 7013: That's right - we never get them.
- Terpsichore: Mr. Jordan, I want to cry, but I can't. There are no tears. Mr. Jordan, at least let me cry.
- Mr. Jordan: You can't anymore. Tears are only for mortals. It's an advantage they have over us.
- Joe Manion: That's very touching. But unless I have my $20,000 by tomorrow morning...
- Danny Miller: You'll have one of your gorillas bump me off.
- Joe Manion: You've been seeing too many movies.
- Mr. Jordan: [watching Terpsichore dance] There are times, 7013, when our work is quite pleasant.
- Messenger 7013: I anticipate nothing but catastrophe.
- Terpsichore: [singing] The law, Why that's a bore, There's a law against, Sittin' on the grass, Against pettin' in the park, Laws prohibiting beating wives, Thereby inhibiting a million guys' lives, If anything's fun, The law suppresses, Tell me what you done, Then I'll get you arrested...
- Messenger 7013: Mr. Jordan, you're not going to assign me to Brooklyn again?
- Mr. Jordan: Precisely.
- Messenger 7013: Oh, dear. The nights are six months long in Brooklyn.
- Muse in fuchsia: That could only come from America!
- Terpsichore: Where else? Why, their number one song on the Hit Parade is, "Who hit Nellie in the Belly with a Flounder".
- Terpsichore: You should hear the type of song he's using, for instance: Take a chick like me, They call me Terpsichore, I'm the Goddess of Song and Dance, I put the ants in the dancers' pants.
- Danny Miller: Max, you mean to say you've had a girl like this up your sleeve and never even showed her to me?
- Terpsichore: Fellas? Second chorus.
- [singing]
- Terpsichore: I'll get two kisses, From two pairs of lips...
- Danny Miller: We've had only one fight in our lives, when we were kids. I don't want to have another one with you. Because, you licked me that time.
- Danny Miller: Boy, I thought I had butterflies in my stomach before; but, now they're wearing roller skates.
- [first lines]
- Max Corkle: Leave me alone. Let me alone. I'm innocent, I tell ya! I had nothin' to do with it. She came down and did it.
- Police Lieutenant: Now get this, Corkle. We don't let anybody make monkeys out of the police force. So, unless you want us to *really* go to work on you...
- Terpsichore: Do you know who he's telling the world we inspired? The man who invented the skinless weenie. A frankfurter.
- Muse in gray: A frankfurter! How ghastly.
- Terpsichore: You see, I want to go down to earth and get into a theatrical production.
- Messenger 7013: Obviously, you don't know our business here. We bring people up from earth, we don't take them down.
- Terpsichore: I suppose you think it was sort of bold of me, pushing my way in as I did.
- Danny Miller: I can't say you're a shrinking violet.
- Max Corkle: I've never had a lead before! I've had nothing but acrobats, pretzel benders, trained seals, and now I got a star. Me, Max Corkle, I've got a star!
- Terpsichore: Why do you keep staring at me like that?
- Danny Miller: Staring? I wasn't aware of it.
- Terpsichore: Well, you've been looking at me in an awfully strange way.
- Terpsichore: [singing] What's the matter, Don't you want to do it?
- Danny Miller, Eddie: No! But, you talked us into it!
- Terpsichore: [singing] I want to marry the two of you
- Eddie: Get a load of that dame
- Danny Miller: I think she's weird
- Terpsichore: Why not? Maybe you've got something that he hasn't got...
- Danny Miller: I made this whole show up out of thin air. It's all a fairy tale and Terpsichore's any cock-eyed thing I say she is.
- Terpsichore: I'd be careful, Mr. Daniel Miller. She might hear you say that - and she might not like it!
- Danny Miller: Oh, she might not like it, huh? I suppose she might come down out of the clouds and slap me right across the face.
- Terpsichore: She might! If you continue to paint her as a cheap, man-chasing trollop!
- Danny Miller: Now get this, once and for all, if I say Terpsichore is a trollop, she's a trollop!
- Danny Miller: The Greek goddess Terpsichore - you know who she is don't you?
- Terpsichore: Oh, I think so. She's the most talented of all the goddesses, isn't she?
- Danny Miller: I don't know. I never met a goddess. Well, the one in our show is just an ordinary dame.
- Terpsichore: I was warned about your country. How can you mix art with jive and baseball and hot dogs?
- Danny Miller: You're going with me. I want to show you off.
- Terpsichore: Thanks, Danny.
- Danny Miller: Oh, this is the happiest night of my life. You really killed 'em, baby.
- Danny Miller: Darling, I want to tell you that...
- [kisses Terpsichore]
- Danny Miller: That's what I was trying to say. I wanted to hold you like that every time I've been near you. Even when you slapped me in the face.
- Terpsichore: I didn't realize what any of this meant to you. But, now I do. And all I want to do is help. I'll do *anything*. Anything you say.
- Terpsichore: Let's not keep talking about the show. Don't you - ever think of anything else? Look at that moon. It's like a million dollar gold piece.
- Terpsichore: I hope it's wonderful.
- Danny Miller: Well, if you come through like you did in dress rehearsal, we'll have them tossing their wives in the air.