Frank Sinatra credited as playing...
Nathan Detroit
- Miss Adelaide: And what was that about?
- Nathan Detroit: His wife's having a baby.
- Miss Adelaide: But why is he asking you?
- Nathan Detroit: He's nervous, it's his first wife.
- Nathan Detroit: I have been running the crap game since I was a juvenile delinquent.
- Miss Adelaide: Speaking of chronic conditions, happy anniversary.
- Lieutenant Brannigan: What brings all these senior delinquents together?
- Nathan Detroit: They got lonely. How am I supposed to know?
- Lieutenant Brannigan: And why are they all wearing red carnations?
- Nathan Detroit: They are also all wearing pants.
- Nathan Detroit: [reading Big Jule's marker] "IOU one thousand. Signed X." How can you write "one thousand" but not your signature?
- Big Jule: I was good in arithmetic but I stunk in English.
- Nathan Detroit: [singing] What's playing at the Roxy? I'll tell you what's playing at the Roxy. Picture about a Minnesota man so in love with a Mississippi girl that he sacrifices everything and moves all the ways to Biloxi. That's what's playing at the Roxy.
- Benny Southstreet: [singing] What's in the daily news? I'll tell you what's in the daily news. Story about a guy who bought his wife a small ruby with what otherwise would have been his union dues. That's what's in the daily news.
- Nicely Nicely Johnson: [singing] What's happening all over? I'll tell you what's happening all over. Guy sitting home by a television set who used to be something of a rover. That's what's happening all over.
- Nathan Detroit, Benny Southstreet, Nicely Nicely Johnson: [singing] Love is the thing that has licked 'em!
- Nathan Detroit: [singing] And it looks like I'm just another victim.
- Nathan Detroit: [to Nicely and Benny] Take Adelaide to the Hot Box. In a cab.
- Miss Adelaide: But it's only a couple of blocks.
- Nathan Detroit: The streets are covered with tourists and I do not want you molested.
- Nathan Detroit: [after declining a bet that he cannot say what color his tie is] Polka dots. In the whole world, only Nathan Detroit could blow a thousand bucks on polka dots.
- Nathan Detroit: As you can see, Big Jule, the boys are fatigued from weariness.
- Big Jule: I don't care who's tired. I'm out 25 Gs. Nobody leaves.
- Rusty Charlie: I am half dead.
- Harry the Horse: If you do not shut up, Big Jule will arrange the other half.
- Big Jule: Tell me, how long have you known the doll?
- Nathan Detroit: 14 years.
- Big Jule: Let's shoot crap!
- Nathan Detroit: Still, you will admit that Mindy's cheesecake is the greatest alive.
- Sky Masterson: Gladly. Furthermore, I am quite partial to Mindy's cheesecake.
- Nathan Detroit: It does not seem possible. Me without a livelihood. Why, I've been running the crap game since I was a juvenile delinquent.
- Benny Southstreet: But, Nathan, the situation is desperate. You have got to think of something.
- Nathan Detroit: My only thought costs 1,000 bucks. I cannot even afford to think.
- Miss Adelaide: In Rhode Island people do not remain engaged for 14 years. They get married.
- Nathan Detroit: So how come it's such a small state?