Grasselli aka Chips Maguire: Okay baby, I'll be your sucker.
Sarah Jane Ryan aka Sal: That's a dangerous promise.

Grasselli aka Chips Maguire: You know that marriage is a pretty tough thing. I wouldn't change sentences with you for all the tea in China.

Sarah Jane Ryan aka Sal: Can you imagine? He was going to make me a torch singer. He took me into his studio and after about five minutes I said, "Yeah, well I've never heard this called an audition before." He followed me home in a taxi cab. Yeah, and with a gat too.
[Throws gun onto table]
Sarah Jane Ryan aka Sal: As if I didn't know how to handle a monkey with a gat.
Miss Flint: The man who followed me...
Sarah Jane Ryan aka Sal: He said he wanted to discover me. Me! Why I've been discovered so many times they call me Miss America.

Sarah Jane Ryan aka Sal: I heard you, so he's home.
[Sarcastically]
Sarah Jane Ryan aka Sal: Ma, inside me I'm bursting with girlish enthusiasm, but I'm trying to control my feelings.

Sarah Jane Ryan aka Sal: Why'd you come home? Who's Grasselli?
Tommy Taylor: Why don't you mind your own business?
Sarah Jane Ryan aka Sal: Why don't you take a running swan dive into the East River?

Sarah Jane Ryan aka Sal: You poor baby lamb. Don't you know a runaround when you see it? I know gorillas like Chips Maguire, I know what kind of pal he'd be. He gives you promises as long as he can use you and then forgets all about you. We'll throw him out in the street where he belongs.

Mr. Prendergast: As your legal advisor I must warn you it's the only way out. The bank won't wait much longer.
Maggie Ryan: Aw, the back of me hand to the bank.
Mr. Prendergast: What they want is money.
Maggie Ryan: Haven't they got enough?

Maggie Ryan: Sometimes I'm almost glad that poor Miss Minnie's dead, heaven rest her soul. At least it saves me the shame of having her know that me own girl has grown up to be a hussy.
Sarah Jane Ryan aka Sal: I am not. I'm a good girl.
Maggie Ryan: You are not. You don't act like a good girl, you don't talk like a good girl, and you don't dress like a good girl.
Sarah Jane Ryan aka Sal: Listen Ma, I act and talk and dress exactly how I please. But technically I'm still a good girl.