Natalie Wood credited as playing...
Louise Hovick
- Louise "Gypsy Rose Lee" Hovick: I said, turn it off! Nobody laughs at me! Because I laugh first. At me! Me, from Seattle! Me, with no education. Me, with no talent, as you kept reminding me my whole life! Well, Mama look at me now. I'm a star! Look! Look how I live! Look at my friends! Look where I'm going! I'm not staying in burlesque! I'm moving, mabye up, maybe down! But wherever it is, I'm enjoying it. I'm having the time of my life! Because for the first time, it is my life! And I love it. I love every second of it! And I'll be damned if you're gonna take it away from me! I am Gypsy Rose Lee! And I love her! And if you don't, you can just clear out now!
- Louise "Gypsy Rose Lee" Hovick: [singing] Let me entertain you, Let me make you smile, Let me do a few tricks, Some old and then some new tricks, I'm very versatile, And if you're real good, I'll make you feel good, I want your spirits to climb, So let me entertain you, And we'll have a real good time; Yes, sir!, We'll have a real good time.
- Rose Hovick: You need something to remind you your goal was to be a great actress. Not a cheap stripper.
- Louise "Gypsy Rose Lee" Hovick: My sister's the actress, mother. And I'm *not* a cheap stripper. I'm the highest-paid in the business.
- Rose Hovick: You won't be ready for vaudeville when it comes back.
- Louise "Gypsy Rose Lee" Hovick: No, I'll be *dead*.
- Louise "Gypsy Rose Lee" Hovick: You really would have been something, Mother.
- Rose Hovick: Think so?
- Louise "Gypsy Rose Lee" Hovick: If you had had someone to push you like I had.
- Rose Hovick: If I could've been, I would've been. That's show business.
- Louise "Gypsy Rose Lee" Hovick: [singing] Little cat, little cat, why do you look so blue? Did somebody paint you to look like that, or is it your birthday, too? Little lamb, little lamb, I wonder how old I am.
- Louise "Gypsy Rose Lee" Hovick: Herbie, I don't think you should call the cops. They'll scare June.
- Herbie Sommers: It's gotta be against the law for a 13-year-old to be marrying.
- Tulsa: You're a great girl. You're the cat's whiskers! That's what we all say. You're just like one of the boys.
- Louise "Gypsy Rose Lee" Hovick: Yeah, that's me, all right. One of the boys.
- Louise "Gypsy Rose Lee" Hovick: I'm sorry I'm not good enough in the act.
- Rose Hovick: Oh, it's the act that isn't good enough, baby. Or somethin'.
- 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'.
- Rose Hovick: Since when do you fix your face before you have your bath?
- Louise "Gypsy Rose Lee" Hovick: A photographer's coming.
- Rose Hovick: Where's he gonna photograph you, in the tub?
- Louise "Gypsy Rose Lee" Hovick: Hmm. Eventually.
- Rose Hovick: Louise.
- Louise "Gypsy Rose Lee" Hovick: Mother, it's for a very chic fashion magazine.
- Rose Hovick: Oh. Louise, you think I ought to freshen up?
- Louise "Gypsy Rose Lee" Hovick: Well, they only want me in the tub.
- Rose Hovick: I wouldn't go even if I did have something to wear. I got more important things to do, like thinking up an idea for a new strip for us.
- Louise "Gypsy Rose Lee" Hovick: We're still stuck with that wind machine you bought - to blow my clothes off.
- Rose Hovick: I just wanted to be noticed.
- Louise "Gypsy Rose Lee" Hovick: Like I wanted you to notice me.
- Louise "Gypsy Rose Lee" Hovick: Mama, no kid does it all on his own. I'm not a kid anymore. And from now on, even if I flop - I flop on my own.