Joan Blondell credited as playing...
Nan Prescott
- Nan Prescott: You scram, before I wrap a chair around your neck!
- Vivian Rich: [Angrily] It's three o'clock in the morning - where do you want me to go?
- [Nan starts to speak, but Vivian immediately cuts her off]
- Vivian Rich: You cheap stenographer...
- Nan Prescott: Outside, countess. As long as they've got sidewalks YOU'VE got a job.
- [Shoves her out, gives her a swift kick in the rump, and slams the door behind her]
- Chester Kent: Hello, Vivian. This is Miss Rich. My secretary, Miss Prescott.
- Nan Prescott: I know Miss Bi... Rich, if you remember.
- Chester Kent: Listen, Nan, send a new boy and girl on right away, and make sure they're not in love with each other.
- Nan Prescott: Right.
- Chester Kent: Uh, get a couple already married.
- Vivian Rich: Chester, it's like being in jail.
- Chester Kent: Sorry, dear, better get used to it.
- Nan Prescott: She is used to it.
- Chester Kent: I certainly have a genius of picking dames to fall for.
- Nan Prescott: You said it, Papa.
- Chester Kent: Maybe you better help me next time.
- Nan Prescott: What do you think I've been doing?
- Nan Prescott: I've got an idea.
- Chester Kent: Keep it to yourself or the wife'll cash in on it.
- Nan Prescott: And when I get an idea I do something about it.
- Chester Kent: Most dames do.
- Chester Kent: [referring to Bea] There's a girl for you.
- Nan Prescott: What kind of a girl?
- Chester Kent: With brains! You can buy beautiful women a dime a dozen. She's got it up here.
- Nan Prescott: So have I.
- Chester Kent: What?
- Nan Prescott: A headache.
- Title-Thinker-Upper: Is Mr. Kent in?
- Nan Prescott: No, but I'm his secretary.
- Title-Thinker-Upper: Well, this is something very personal.
- Nan Prescott: That's the kind of a secretary I am.
- Chester Kent: Bingo! I got an idea. Cats! I was walking on the street and saw some cats. You ever see cats walk? Just like that. A regular dance rhythm.
- Nan Prescott: So, you came right back here?
- Chester Kent: That's just what I did. I got the whole thing all mapped out. Seven boys and seven girls, tomcats and pussycats, cast down in one. Then we go to full stage with an alley drop with the ash cans and a board fence. Then we have 12 little girls come out in kitten costumes.
- Chester Kent: How do you suppose an insane asylum idea would go? I could play the lead myself without any trouble.
- Nan Prescott: Me, too.
- Nan Prescott: What a memory!
- Chester Kent: Old Faithful, I calls it. Hoofers, like elephants, never forget, baby.
- Bea: Nan, are you busy?
- Nan Prescott: No, just dreaming lazily about life.
- Bea: Tell me, where do you get your hair done and where do you get all those pretty dresses?
- Nan Prescott: What's the idea?
- Bea: Well. Well, you're the type men like and...
- Nan Prescott: Me? Know any more funny stories?
- Bea: I got sick of looking like a schoolteacher and I'm sick of working in an office. I wanna go back on the stage!
- Chester Kent: Well, it was just a question of time before this place got to you. Did you say she could dance?
- Nan Prescott: One of the best!
- [last lines]
- Chester Kent: You like it?
- Nan Prescott: Whatever you say, boss.
- Chester Kent: I'll make you love it!
- Nan Prescott: [on the phone] Hello?
- Vivian Rich: Who's speaking? Nan?
- Nan Prescott: Nobody else. I wouldn't think of waking him. He's sleeping. And so was I when you called.
- Chester Kent: Old Faithful's gone blank on me. I thought of a thousand ideas and every one of them moth-eaten.
- Nan Prescott: If the little girl's not too bold, how's for me sticking with you to get it.
- Nan Prescott: Take it and ask no questions.
- Chester Kent: There's something phony here. How'd you get it?
- Nan Prescott: Blackmail.
- Chester Kent: Come on, spill it.
- Nan Prescott: I played a pair of deuces like four aces and they paid.