- [last lines]
- Martha Blessing: Let's go in to have dinner now - we can discuss his future, hmm?
- Lena: Dinner? Dinner!... Dinner! Say a prayer, everyone, for me! Say a prayer for me!
- Lena: [she rushes to the kitchen, where smoke is pouring from the oven, then returns dejectedly] ... Ham and eggs, anyone?
- Martha Blessing: Did you get your father?
- Johnny Durocher: He's in the yard, catching flies.
- Martha Blessing: Well, after you get in pictures, he'll be able to afford DDT.
- Martha Blessing: It's just terrible, the way some parents stifle a child and their talent.
- Leo Durocher: This kid's not stifled! Go, ahead, Johnny - recite!
- Johnny Durocher: Who's out? You're nuts! I was safe by a mile! What's the matter? Who ever called you an umpire? You're blind! You're blind as a bat!
- Leo Durocher: Beautiful!
- Martha Blessing: Have your mother and father ever thought of your singing professionally?
- Johnny Durocher: Golly, no - they've always wanted me to be a ballplayer.
- Martha Blessing: But - but think how nice it would be for them if you - if you had a career in pictures.
- Johnny Durocher: I told my father I wanted to be an umpire once - and he put me on bread and water for two weeks!
- [first lines]
- Lena: Here's your lunch, Emmy.
- Emmy: Oh, I thought I'd wait for Martha - she'll be back any minute.
- Lena: Just to tell you - our Martha's way overdue again.
- Emmy: Yes, one of her vocal lessons.
- Lena: Well, you know, once she gets worked up to it, she's liable to go on vocalizing way over her lesson hour.
- Emmy: I know - and when she's finished, instead of being tired, she wants to extend a helping hand to everyone.
- Lena: Yeah, that's just what got me worried - that helping hand.
- Martha Blessing: Oh, Johnny - why didn't you tell me you were Leo Durocher's son?
- Johnny Durocher: Dad told me never to brag.
- Laraine Day: You must have told him when I wasn't there.
- Martha Blessing: Hello, everybody! Did you ever see such a beautiful day? The sun is shining, the flowers are blooming - and even people are smiling.
- Lewis: I have already attained happiness, and I'm completely satisfied with my present precarious position as manager of some of the most exasperating, unpredictable, well-paid people in the whole world - and I will not have this boy upsetting my whole life!
- Lewis: I don't like child actors. You work your brains out for them - and just when you get them someplace, they turn out to be gangling, overgrown, adolescent and delinquent!
- Martha Blessing: And this young man - you're going to be hearing a lot from him in the future.
- Leo Durocher: Oh, we've heard a lot from him in the past.
- Martha Blessing: Don't tell me you buy papers from him, too!
- Laraine Day: I should say we do - and I must say, he doesn't look very neat.
- Martha Blessing: Ah, well, we mustn't blame the child for his parents' mistakes. But I'm going to see to it that all of his habits are changed.
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