- Baby Doll: Sometimes, big shot, you don't seem to give me credit for very much intelligence at all. I've been to school in my life - and I'm a magazine reader!
- Baby Doll: I don't wanna be in the same room with a man that would make me live in a house with no furniture in it!
- Archie Lee Meighan: Oh, honey.
- Baby Doll: My daddy would turn over in his grave if he knew! He would just turn over in his grave!
- Archie Lee Meighan: Baby Doll, if your daddy turned in his grave as often as you say he'd turn in his grave, that old man would plow up the graveyard!
- Baby Doll: Excuse me, Mr. Vacarro, but I wouldn't dream of eatin' a nut which a man had cracked in his mouth.
- Silva Vacarro: You've got many refinements.
- Baby Doll: Thank you.
- [last lines]
- Baby Doll: Well, let's go in now. We got nothin' to do but wait for tomorrow and see if we're remembered or forgotten.
- Aunt Rose Comfort: Oh, my. Oh, my.
- Archie Lee Meighan: Today is the fifth day of November. Tomorrow is the sixth day of November, and the day after that is November seventh. And you know what day that is, don't you? November seventh is your 20th birthday.
- Baby Doll: Ain't that sweet of you to remember. Where's my birthday present?
- Archie Lee Meighan: Oh, you'll get your birthday present, providin' you haven't forgotten the agreement between us, which comes due on that day.
- Baby Doll: Oh, the agreement?
- Archie Lee Meighan: Yeah, the agreement, that you swore on a Bible to keep your side of.
- Baby Doll: Providin' you kept yours.
- Archie Lee Meighan: Have I ever laid hands on you since we've been married?
- Baby Doll: Yeah, as often as possible.
- Baby Doll: Small dogs have a loud bark.
- Archie Lee Meighan: No one is going to whistle at any woman of mine.
- Baby Doll: You take an awful lot for granted when you say mine. I came to you today for protection. What did I get? Slapped, sent home. Now, I'm telling you the agreement between us is over.
- Silva Vacarro: I find you different this evening in some way.
- Baby Doll: Never mind that.
- Silva Vacarro: Grown up suddenly.
- Baby Doll: I feel cool and rested for the first time in my life. That's the way I feel. Rested and cool.
- Baby Doll: [after being told to make him comfortable] Ain't nobody comfortable in that house. Lucky if you can find a chair to sit down on. You want coffee?
- Silva Vacarro: No, just a nice cool drink of water.
- Baby Doll: Oh, well the house water runs warm. But if you've got the energy to run that old pump over there you can get yourself a nice cool drink from that there cistern.
- Silva Vacarro: I've got energy to burn.
- Baby Doll: I feel so weak. Oh, my head is buzzy.
- Silva Vacarro: Fuzzy?
- Baby Doll: Hmm. Fuzzy and buzzy. My head is swingin' round. Must have been that swingin' that done it.
- Baby Doll: [Silva caresses her neck] Don't touch me. Please, don't touch me. I don't like to be touched.
- Silva Vacarro: Well, why do you giggle?
- Baby Doll: Cause you make me feel kinda hysterical, Mr. Vacarro.
- Silva Vacarro: [knowing smile] I do?
- Baby Doll: [starts to get up] Mr. Vacarro, I think I'll go make us some lemonade.
- [he holds her back]
- Baby Doll: What did you do that for?
- Silva Vacarro: I don't want to be deprived of the pleasure of your company. Not yet.
- Baby Doll: Mr. Vacarro, you certainly are getting familiar.
- Silva Vacarro: Don't you have any fun loving spirit about you?
- Baby Doll: Well, this isn't fun.
- [laughs breathlessly and smiles]
- Silva Vacarro: Why do you giggle then? Hmm?
- Baby Doll: Because I'm ticklish.
- Archie Lee Meighan: People know the situation between us. Yesterday on Front Street a man yelled to me and said, "Hey, Archie Lee, has yer wife outgrown the crib yet?" And three or four others hawed at me. Public. Humiliation.
- Baby Doll: Private humiliation is just as painful.
- Member of the crowd #2: Hey, Senator, next time run on a Republican ticket and we'll git the n***** vote out fer ya.
- Baby Doll: We had an agreement that - I mean, I told him that on my twentieth birthday I'd be ready.
- Silva Vacarro: That's tomorrow.
- Baby Doll: Uh-huh.
- Silva Vacarro: And, are you - will you be ready?
- Baby Doll: Well, that all depends.
- Silva Vacarro: What on?
- Baby Doll: Whether or not the furniture comes back. I guess.
- Silva Vacarro: Your husband sweats more than any man I know and now I can understand why.
- Archie Lee Meighan: I am servin' you notice. If that ole woman breaks down and dies on my place, I ain't gonna get stuck with her funeral expenses. I'll have her burned up! Cremated is what they call it. And I'll pack her ashes in an ole Coca-Cola bottle and I'll pitch that bottle in the Tiger Tail bayou!
- Archie Lee Meighan: They's no torture on earth to equal the torture which a cold woman inflicts on a man. They's no torture to compare with it! What I've done is staked out a lot in hell, a lot with a rotten house on it and five complete sets of furniture not paid for.
- Baby Doll: What you done is bit off more'n you can chew.
- [takes a long, slow lick of her ice cream cone with her tongue]
- Baby Doll: I get so depressed goin' through all them empty rooms.
- Silva Vacarro: All the rooms empty?
- Baby Doll: All except the nursery and the kitchen. The stuff in them rooms is paid for.
- Silva Vacarro: You have a child in the nursery?
- Baby Doll: Me? No! I sleep in the nursery myself. I let the slats down on the crib.
- Silva Vacarro: Why do you sleep in the nursery?
- Baby Doll: Mr. Vacarro, that's a personal question.
- Archie Lee Meighan: You know, there's a new bureau in Washington, D. C. It's called the U.W. Bureau. You know what U.W. stands for? It stands for Useless Women! They got secret plans afoot to -
- [takes a swig of liquor]
- Archie Lee Meighan: to round 'em all up and shoot 'em. That's funny. Shoot 'em. Now, you heard me. I said shoot 'em.
- Baby Doll: How 'bout men that's destructive? Ain't they got some plan to round up destructive men and shoot 'em?
- Baby Doll: Archie Lee, you're a mess. Do you know what they call such people? Peepin' Toms!
- Archie Lee Meighan: Ain't that somethin' for a woman who sleeps in a baby's crib to stay away from her husband!
- Baby Doll: Now, I'm gonna plug up the hole in that wall with chewin' gum and if I ever catch you pokin' a knife through it again to peek at me in my sleep, I'm movin' into the Cotton King Hotel.
- Baby Doll: You put me in Tiger Tail - the biggest old wreck of a place in the whole delta. You told my daddy you was gonna restore this place, exactly like it was when the Deauvines owned it, only betta. "Make a show place," you said. Yeah, a freak show!
- Archie Lee Meighan: I gotta boy on the roof right now. I got my man on the roof right now. Can't you hear the hammer on the roof?
- Baby Doll: Is that a hammer? Why I thought that was a king-size termite.
- Baby Doll: You told a mouthful of lies to my daddy in order to get me.
- Archie Lee Meighan: Get you? I ain't got you yet.
- Baby Doll: No and you ain't about to either.
- Archie Lee Meighan: What are you waitin' for? Oh, now, come on, git into the car!
- Baby Doll: I will git in the backseat of that scatter-boat when you git out and walk around and open the door for me like a gentleman.
- Archie Lee Meighan: Well, you gonna wait a long time, if that's what your waitin' for.
- Baby Doll: Well, I declare! My father would turn over in his grave.
- Archie Lee Meighan: I never once saw your father git and open the car door for any woman and especially not your water-leggin' mother! Now, git on in!
- Baby Doll: If you don't like Aunt Rose Comfort's cookin, then get me a regular servant! You don't think that I am gonna cook for a big, fat ole thing like you!
- Archie Lee Meighan: Quit sayin' fat or...
- Baby Doll: Well, then you get young and thin and I'll quit sayin' fat ole thing.
- Baby Doll: [Archie Lee brings. Baby Doll an ice cream cone] Why didn't you bring me a double-dip?
- [starts licking the ice cream]
- Baby Doll: I'm gonna get me a good payin' job. The manager of the Cotton King Hotel helped carry my daddy's coffin. He'll give me work.
- Archie Lee Meighan: What sort of work do you think you could do?
- Baby Doll: I could curl hair in a beauty parlor.
- Archie Lee Meighan: Oh, I can't see that.
- Baby Doll: I reckon I could be a hostess - and smile at people comin' in a place.
- Archie Lee Meighan: What place?
- Baby Doll: Any place! I could be a cashier.
- Archie Lee Meighan: No. You can't count change.
- Baby Doll: Well, I could pass out menus or programs or somethin' - and say hello to people.
- Archie Lee Meighan: Oh, now, Baby Doll.
- Baby Doll: I can say hello!
- Member of the crowd #1: Hey, Senator, my ole dad once said, "Blessed is he who has nothin' to say and cannot be persuaded to say it."
- Silva Vacarro: All right, Marshal, what's you gonna do about findin' the man that burned down my Gin?
- Man sitting with the Marshal: Boy, what makes you think your Gin was set fire to?
- Silva Vacarro: Look around you. Did you ever see so many happy faces? Looks like a rich man's funeral with all his relations attending.
- Town Marshal: My advice is: you not to make any more reckless charges. Cause you bein' a foreigner, you already got strike one and strike two against you.
- Silva Vacarro: I want no advice, no law, no court in this county. I come from a very old country way of tradition where each man to make his own justice! Like bootleg liquor. Private! In secret. Because they was corruption in there too. And if justice was executed, it was executed by each man himself. Alone! I mean biblical justice. Eye for eye. Tooth for tooth
- Archie Lee Meighan: Oh, Baby Doll! Come out here! Come here. Come here, Baby Doll. I want you to come right over here and meet Mr. Vacarro from the Syndicate Plantation. Say, what's your first name Vacarro?
- Silva Vacarro: Silva.
- Archie Lee Meighan: How you spell it?
- Silva Vacarro: Capital s-i-l-v-a.
- Archie Lee Meighan: Sure enough? Like a sliva linin'? Well, every cloud has got a silva linin'!
- Baby Doll: Oh, what's that from - the Bible?
- Silva Vacarro: No, the Mother Goose book.
- Archie Lee Meighan: I believe in the good neighbor policy. You do me a good turn and I do you a good turn, Mr. Vacarro. Tit for tat and tat for tit is the policy we live on! Yes, sir!
- Silva Vacarro: Dump their garbage in the yard. Ignorance and Indulgence and stink!
- Rock: I thought that young Miss Meighan smelt pretty good.
- Silva Vacarro: You keep your nose with the cotton.
- Silva Vacarro: Both of us had misfortunes on the same day.
- Baby Doll: Hmm?
- Silva Vacarro: You lost your furniture, my cotton gin burned down!
- Baby Doll: Oh, yeah.
- Silva Vacarro: Quite a coincidence.
- Baby Doll: What's that?
- Silva Vacarro: I said it was a coincidence of misfortune.
- Baby Doll: Oh, sure. I mean, what can you do with a bunch of unfurnished rooms.
- Silva Vacarro: Well, you could play hide-n-seek.
- Baby Doll: Not me. I'm not athletic.
- Baby Doll: Sometimes I don't know where to go or what to do.
- Silva Vacarro: Well, that's not uncommon. People enter this world without instruction.
- Silva Vacarro: [Baby Doll listens while taking slow, long sips of coke out of a coca-cola bottle] People come into this world without instruction of where to go or what to do. So, they wander a little and then go away. Drift for awhile and then vanish. And so make room for new comers. Old goers. New comers. Goin' and comin'. Back and forth. Rush. Rush. Permanence? Nothin'.
- Baby Doll: [Silva gets in the back seat of a broken down car with Baby Doll] The chauffeur sits in the front seat!
- Silva Vacarro: That seat's got no cushion.
- Baby Doll: Oh, yeah.
- Baby Doll: Excuse my yawn; but, we was up awful late last night. So, you're a wop.
- Silva Vacarro: No, I'm a Sicilian, Mrs. Meighan. A very ancient people.
- Baby Doll: Sish?
- Silva Vacarro: No, Siss-Sicilian. I'm from Corpus Christi.
- Baby Doll: Oh, how unusual.
- Baby Doll: I'll be 20 tomorrow. Tomorrow is Election Day and my Burthday and the day that Mr. Franklin Delano Roosevelt was elected President for his first term.
- Silva Vacarro: It's a great day for the country for both reasons.
- Baby Doll: Oh, he was a man to respect.
- Silva Vacarro: Well, you're a lady to respect, Mrs. Meighan.
- Baby Doll: Me? Oh, I never got past the fourth grade.
- Silva Vacarro: Why'd you quit?
- Baby Doll: Well, I had a great deal of trouble with long division.
- Silva Vacarro: Now, I don't think you need worry about your failure with long division. After all, you got through short division. Short divisions all a lady ought to be called on to cope with.
- Silva Vacarro: What's the matter, Mrs. Meighan? Can't you collect your thoughts? You're minds a blank on the subject? Hmm?
- Silva Vacarro: Let's swing a little, huh? You seem all tense. Motion relaxes people. It's like a cradle! A cradle relaxes a baby. They call you Baby, don't they?
- Baby Doll: Oh, that's sort of a nickname.
- Silva Vacarro: Well, in a swing you relax just like in a cradle.
- Silva Vacarro: You're a very delicate woman, Mrs. Meighan.
- Baby Doll: Delicate? Me?
- Silva Vacarro: There isn't much of you; but, what there is - is choice. Delectable, I might say.
- Baby Doll: Huh?
- Silva Vacarro: You're fine fibered. Soft and smooth.
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