- Victoria Gulliver: I don't trust this theatre business. It always leads to trouble. A Gaiety Girl was almost Anthony's mother. All in all, he nearly had six different mothers form six different theaters before he finally arrived.
- Kay Martin: I know you want me to be a lady, but I do so want to go on the stage, just to show Steve. He's so sure of himself.
- Victoria Gulliver: That's a great quality in a man.
- Kay Martin: And awfully hard on a woman.
- Sylvester: [Inhaling deeply] Mmmm, I love the smell of the theatre. I'd like to paint it - the smell, not the theatre.
- Anthony Gulliver: Uh huh. To think it's all mine - the theatre, I mean, not the smell.