Betty Bruce credited as playing...
Tessie Tura
- Tessie Tura: But take it from me, to be a stripper, all you need to have is no talent.
- Mazeppa: You'll pardon me, but to have no talent is not enough. What you need to have is an idea that makes your strip special.
- Tessie Tura: It scratches the devil out of me and it just don't bump when I do.
- Mazeppa: Maybe there's somethin' wrong with your bumper.
- Tessie Tura: *Big* joke. I'm out there bumpin' my brains off with no action and she's bein' witty.
- Tessie Tura: Well, if you ladies will excuse me...
- Rose Hovick: We're very busy.
- Tessie Tura: In my dressing room?
- Rose Hovick: In your dress...?
- Tessie Tura: You heard me! And I don't like sharing it any more than you do - particularly with a troupe from the Virgin Islands.
- Tessie Tura: Say, you're cute. How about you and me going for a ride after the show?
- Herbie Sommers: All my seats are reserved.
- Rose Hovick: We're headliners from the Orpheum Circuit. We were booked into this theater by mistake.
- Tessie Tura: Weren't we all?
- Tessie Tura: My, look at them ladylike little stitches. That miserable broad who's been making my gowns must be using a fishhook.
- Tessie Tura: You're always in a bind in this flea-bitten trap. I'm a strip woman, slob. I don't do no scenes. Now, blow.
- Tessie Tura: Gypsy, meet Miss Mazeppa, Miss Electra.
- Electra: Say, you're even younger than I was when I started strippin'.
- Louise "Gypsy Rose Lee" Hovick: Oh, I'm not gonna strip.
- Mazeppa: Something wrong with *strippin'*?
- Louise "Gypsy Rose Lee" Hovick: No, I just meant I don't have any talent.
- Tessie Tura: You think they have?
- Louise "Gypsy Rose Lee" Hovick: My grandpa says we've covered the country like gypsies.
- Tessie Tura: Well, you may be a gypsy, Rose Louise, but you're... Say, that ain't a bad name if you ever take up strippin'.