Dorothy Malone credited as playing...
Abby Parker
- Abby Parker: You told him to kiss me?
- Rick Todd: Lady, if I'd known he was going to kiss you, I wouldn't have sent a boy to do a man's job.
- Abby Parker: [slap] That's for the man. You can tell him the job's filled.
- Rick Todd: Well, what's the rush? I never met a lady cartoonist before.
- Abby Parker: [sarcastically] All lady cartoonists are extremely grateful.
- Bessie Sparrowbush: You know, numerology's a science. I take the numbers - the day, the month and the year that I was born. I add the day, the month and the year that Eugene was born, and that answer I divide with my street address. Then I add that to my social security number, and with that answer I divide with Eugene's social security number. Then I multiply that by the number of dancing lessons I take. And, the number of calories I eat in one day I subtract from that, and I multiply the whole thing by the time and that's the end of it.
- Abby Parker: How's it work out?
- Bessie Sparrowbush: Zero. Eugene again.
- Mr. Murdock: Sixty-two pages of drawings and no blood? Not even an itsy-bitsy nosebleed? But suffering catfish, do you call this a Murdock Book for Kiddies with no stranglings, with no decapitations? Where are they?
- Abby Parker: I must have lost my head.
- Abby Parker: I don't know how I let you talk me into moving here.
- Bessie Sparrowbush: Because it's Greenwich Village and it's romantic. Besides, my horoscope said this is where I'd meet my true love.
- Bessie Sparrowbush: He's not very handsome. But he is kind of cute. You know, the safe kind.
- Abby Parker: The safe kind? What's safe in pants?
- Bessie Sparrowbush: It's happened! Tonight my moon is full and square to Jupiter, Uranus is square to Sagittarius, Mars is square to Venus. I saw him for the first time tonight. He's the one, my true love.
- Abby Parker: Oh, Bessie, no! That square's your true love?
- Rick Todd: [stepping into an elevator] Going up?
- Abby Parker: Yes, down.
- Rick Todd: You might try sideways, then once around the park.
- Abby Parker: What do you think you're doing?
- Eugene Fullstack: Oh, I'm awfully sorry, ma'am. I thought you were someone else.
- Eugene Fullstack: [pointing to Rick] He told me to kiss you except you're not you. Are you?
- Abby Parker: Thank you for the escort. It's been dandy having somebody breathe down my neck for two hours.
- Rick Todd: Oh, well it's a dandy neck and I wouldn't mind going on overtime.
- Rick Todd: Models?
- Abby Parker: Yes, models. You understand, they're people who pose. I need one male and one female.
- Rick Todd: Well, now you can't beat that combination.
- Abby Parker: I like being kissed. I love it! Under the mistletoe, in the dark, early in the morning, lunchtime, teatime, cocktail time, *anytime*, but I don't want to be kissed by you.
- Rick Todd: Hold it. Give me a chance. At least with the cocktails and mistletoe bit. I might grow on you.
- Rick Todd: You know, you still look familiar.
- [Rick puts his arms around Abby]
- Abby Parker: And you still act familiar.
- Abby Parker: Who was that singer? He sounds like Rick.
- Bessie Sparrowbush: No. He's the fella that had that big hit record on, "That's Amore".