- Terry McKay: Winter must be cold for those with no warm memories. We've already missed the Spring.
- Nickie Ferrante: Yes. This is probably my last chance.
- Terry McKay: Mine too.
- Terry McKay: Oh, it's nobody's fault but my own! I was looking up... it was the nearest thing to heaven! You were there...
- Kenneth Bradley: I really hope you've found happiness, and if you're ever in need of anything, like someone to love you, don't hesitate to call me.
- Terry McKay: You name the place and I'll obey.
- [curtsy]
- Nickie Ferrante: I don't know. I can't think. How about the top of the Empire State Building?
- Terry McKay: Oh, yes! That's perfect. It's the nearest thing to heaven we have in New York.
- Nickie Ferrante: 102nd floor. And don't forget to take the elevator.
- [last lines]
- Terry McKay: Oh darling. Don't - don't worry darling. If - if you can paint, I can walk. Anything can happen, don't you think?
- Nickie Ferrante: Yes, darling. Yes, yes, yes.
- Nickie Ferrante: I thought everything was fine until I saw you last night. Then I knew there must be something between us, even if it's only an ocean.
- Grandmother Janou: [talking about Nickie] Everything comes too easily to him. He's always attracted by the art he isn't practising, the place he hasn't been, the girl he hasn't met.
- Nickie Ferrante: But you have such an honest face.
- Terry McKay: I have?
- Nickie Ferrante: I can trust you can't I?
- Terry McKay: Yes, I suppose so.
- Nickie Ferrante: Good, come with me.
- Terry McKay: Yes, but the Captain has an honest face too! Why can't you tell him your troubles?
- Interviewer: I'm sure you had some wonderful experiences in Europe.
- Nickie Ferrante: Yes.
- Interviewer: Would you care to expand on that statement?
- Nickie Ferrante: No.
- Terry McKay: It's not that I'm not prudish; but, my mother told me never to enter a man's room month's ending in "R".
- Terry McKay: I'm getting married and I want you to be the first to congratulate me.
- NYC Cab Driver: Marriage is something to rush to?
- Robert Q. Lewis - Announcer: Now then, one thing - watch the camera. When the red light is on, you're on.
- Nickie Ferrante: Yeah? Well, it's on.
- Terry McKay: [to Nickie Ferrante] You go think in your room and I'll think in mine... as we miss each other.
- Robert Q. Lewis - Announcer: Say, here's good news for you bachelors. Competition for pretty girls will definitely be easier now that Nickie Ferrante, the "big dame hunter", is going out of circulation. Yes, it will be wedding bells for him at long last. Mr. Ferrante is sailing today from Europe, and Miss Lois Clark will be waiting for him at the gangplank in New York. Lois and her lovely 600 million bucks, what a deal. Not only all that lettuce but a beautiful tomato too. Wow.
- Terry McKay: My father drank beer. In the morning.
- Nickie Ferrante: He was a beer drinker?
- Terry McKay: Later in the day, he drank anything.
- Nickie Ferrante: [opening his cigarette case] You don't happened to have match?
- Terry McKay: You could light it from that inscription, couldn't you?
- Nickie Ferrante: Tell me. Did you write the song "I'll Never Smile Again"?
- Terry McKay: [laughs] No. But I'm thinking of writing one called "Moon Over La Gabriella." Do you think it will ever take the place of night baseball?
- [Shakes her head]
- Terry McKay: .
- Terry McKay: We were talking about the place where I was born...
- Nickie Ferrante: I can hardly wait for you to grow up.
- Gabriella: [on the phone] You beast.
- Nickie Ferrante: Hello, Gabriella.
- Gabriella: .Hello, Gabriella? Don't you talk to me.
- Nickie Ferrante: Don't talk to you - well, then why did you call me?
- Nickie Ferrante: Oh, you know, this couldn't be nicer. You saved my life. I was bored to death. I hadn't seen one attractive woman on this ship since we left. Now, isn't that terrible? I was alarmed. I said to myself, "Don't beautiful women travel any more?" And then I saw you. And I was saved. I hope.
- Terry McKay: Tell me. Have you been getting results with a line like that? Or would I be surprised?
- Nickie Ferrante: If you were surprised, I'd be surprised.
- Terry McKay: I wish I could share your confidence.
- Grandmother Janou: You will have it when you need it. That is your character.
- Nickie Ferrante: I'm in trouble - serious trouble.
- Terry McKay: Well, I could've told you. Playing around yachts - the poor thing.
- Nickie Ferrante: I must talk with someone.
- Terry McKay: Well, I'm not very good at that sort of thing. I talk a lot. I've tried to break myself of the habit.
- Ned Hathaway: I was wondering if you'd care to join my wife, my sister, and me in a game of bridge.
- Nickie Ferrante: Oh, I'm sorry, Mr. Hathaway, but I cheat. It's an addiction.
- Nickie Ferrante: I beg your pardon, I, I think you have my cigarette case.
- Terry McKay: I might as well confess. I am a jewel thief.
- Gabriella: [On the phone] Hypocrite? I have in my hand a knife, and I wish it were in your back. Menteur! Lâche! Dégoûtant!
- Terry McKay: Does your fiancée know the lady of the yacht...
- Terry McKay, Nickie Ferrante: Gabriella?
- Nickie Ferrante: Well, certainly. She's her best friend.
- Terry McKay: Chummy little group.
- Terry McKay: And when you were little, what did your nurse read to you at bedtime?
- Nickie Ferrante: Well, let me see.
- Terry McKay: The memoirs of Casanova?
- Nickie Ferrante: Every night. And then we'd turn out the light.
- Terry McKay: "We"?
- Nickie Ferrante: I was only so big.
- Terry McKay: You must have had a happy childhood.
- Terry McKay: And women...
- Nickie Ferrante: Oh, women.
- Terry McKay: You've known quite a few, haven't you?
- Nickie Ferrante: Oh, I don't know.
- Terry McKay: Or, perhaps "few" is the wrong word.
- Nickie Ferrante: Well, let's say it's not precise.
- Nickie Ferrante: I idealize them. Every woman I meet, I put up there. Of course, the longer I know her, and the better I know her...
- Terry McKay: Yes. It's hard to keep them up there, isn't it?
- Nickie Ferrante: Yes, isn't it.
- Terry McKay: Pretty soon, the pedestal wobbles and then - topples.
- Terry McKay: Oh, you have the most - beautiful place here.
- Grandmother Janou: Thank you.
- Terry McKay: I think I could stay here for ever.
- Grandmother Janou: Oh, no, no, no! You are too young for that, my dear. It is a good place to sit and remember, but you have still to create your memories.
- Terry McKay: I grew up - quickly. Then, I went to New York and I got a job singing in a nightclub from ten to three in the morning. And the manager used to chase me round the office until four, and then - I went home.
- Nickie Ferrante: Did he ever...
- Terry McKay: Oh, no, no.
- Nickie Ferrante: We've created a problem.
- Terry McKay: Yes, I know, so let's not complicate it any more. Being a woman, I'm more cautious and I can think more clearly when you're not around. So you go think in your room, and I'll think in mine.
- Miss Webb: I'd be most happy to take care of you. Now, what did you have in mind?
- Terry McKay: Well, I want something irresistible, inexpensive, and - pink.
- Terry McKay: Ladies and gentlemen, this is my last night, so I would love to sing a song for you that is very close to my heart.
- [singing]
- Terry McKay: Our love affair, Is a wondrous thing, That we'll rejoice in remembering...
- Terry McKay: I'm fine. I've got my job and I'm on a budget. And if things come out right, and then maybe if I'm a very good girl, I'll get what I want next Christmas.
- Terry McKay: Don't tell me you're the famous - oh, I have read so much about you in "Life" and "Look" and...
- Nickie Ferrante: Possibly "Good Housekeeping"?
- Terry McKay: He had to go to Texas on a big merger.
- Nickie Ferrante: Ah, yes.
- Terry McKay: He thought it'd be a good idea if I took a little trip while he consummated this big deal, because I have no head for business. It's beyond me how the more money a corporation loses, the more it makes, because of the carry-overs with the write-offs.
- Nickie Ferrante: Oh, yes. Yes.
- Terry McKay: The big secret seems to be to merge a sick corporation with a big, fat healthy one, and then everybody gets well.
- Nickie Ferrante: Silly, isn't it?
- Terry McKay: He doesn't think I'm dumb, but he doesn't think I'm very bright - about things like that.
- Nickie Ferrante: Well, it isn't necessary, is it?
- Terry McKay: Thank you.
- Nickie Ferrante: This ship is going much too fast. We ought to take advantage of every moment. Don't you think that life should be gay and bright and bubbly, like champagne?
- Terry McKay: I like pink champagne.
- Nickie Ferrante: Yes, that's the kind I mean. Pink champagne. Now, is there any reason why from now on this trip shouldn't be pink champagne?
- Boy - Age 5: Everybody on the ship's talkin' about ya.
- Nickie Ferrante: No kidding. What are they saying?
- Boy - Age 5: I don't know, on account every time they start talkin' about you, they make me leave the room. I don't get it.
- Terry McKay: Well, that sort of brings us up to date. Now my life is an open book.
- Nickie Ferrante: Now, that's only one page.
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