- Carol Ainsley: I've got to take him out to Hollywood and see that he's properly launched.
- Sen. Howard Ainsley: Couldn't you just crack a bottle over his head?
- Henry Pepper: Hello, everyone.
- Carol Ainsley: Well, what are you doing here?
- Henry Pepper: Me? I'm the best man.
- Dormitory Clerk: Well, we can put you up here for the night.
- Henry Pepper: Oh, no thanks. I like it where women are permitted.
- Carol Ainsley: [On the intercom] Oh, uh, Pat, would you go in my personal files and bring in the leather-bound edition of the life of Carol Ainsley?
- Carol Ainsley: They're really lovely, Michael. It's very thoughtful of you. Take this clock, for instance. You shouldn't go spending your money like this.
- Michael Cobb: Money? Why, I'm rolling in it. I just stopped into my publisher's and they showed me my royalty statement. Why, if I don't start spending some of it, I'll clutter up the bank.
- Pat O'Shea: Look, Pepper, how long has this been going on between Carol and Buxton?
- Henry Pepper: All the time. From the first moment she laid eyes on him. She's mad about him. Go to bed, Pat.
- Michael Cobb: [Looking at the gifts that Carol has received but told Pepper that they are appreciations from members of a quartet that's a client of hers] There's one more.
- Henry Pepper: One more what?
- Michael Cobb: Gift.
- Henry Pepper: Oh, did you send these?
- Michael Cobb: [Looking at Carol] Oh, he didn't know?
- Carol Ainsley: No, he didn't know, but he knows now.
- Pat O'Shea: Hello, Carol. You sure look better than I feel.
- Carol Ainsley: Well, don't waste it on me. Well?
- Carol Ainsley: I want to talk to you.
- Henry Pepper: People usually knock.
- Carol Ainsley: I scratched.
- Henry Pepper: Now, look, the whole house is on the prowl. The next person in here will probably be Michael. And that wouldn't be so grand.
- Pat O'Shea: I've got second degree callouses from sitting on the hard benches of over a hundred little theaters.
- Carol Ainsley: Uh, Michael, have you any idea how this happened?
- Michael Cobb: Well, darling, I spoke to the press tonight, but it was strictest confidence.
- [All the dinner guests at her father's house laugh]
- Senator: The strictest confidence? Washington newspapers?
- [the group continues laughing]
- Carol Ainsley: [On the phone with an actress client, Monica] Oh, but there's no such thing, angel, as a small part - just small actresses. Wh... Oh, you get killed in the first reel. Oh, but darling, think how they're going to miss you throughout the rest of the picture.
- Michael Cobb: You know, Henry, there's something challenging about failure. If a man has undertaken something - right or wrong, there's an urge to see it through.
- Carol Ainsley: [to Henry Pepper] I've had my department work up a few notes on my childhood and the years between then and now.
- Henry Pepper: A few years?
- Henry Pepper: I'm not a cub reporter chasing headlines. I'm an associate editor. My assignment is you.
- Carol Ainsley: I still say you're wasting your time in Buxton.
- Henry Pepper: I Never waste my time, Miss Ainsley.