Fred Ayres: Nothing of the kind. He's landed us a job in Rio. Rio de Janeiro. The Hotel Atlantico. We'll be flying down any morning now.
Honey Hale: And swimming back in the afternoon. I'm taking my water-wings.


--Ginger Rogers (as Honey Hale) in Flying Down to Rio

Fred Ayres: The trick is to keep your mind a blank.
Honey Hale: With THAT music?
Honey Hale: Oh, Freddie, is my mind red!


--Ginger Rogers (as Honey Hale) in Flying Down to Rio

Fred Ayres: Wait a minute. Wait a minute. This is really good news. Rog has outdone himself.
Honey Hale: I'll bet he's broken both legs running after two women at the same time.


--Ginger Rogers (as Honey Hale) in Flying Down to Rio

Karel Novak: [Rapturously] Oh, America!
Sylvia Dennis: The way you say America it sounds like you thought it were Heaven.
Karel Novak: It might be.
Sylvia Dennis: Not my idea of Heaven. Too much noise and dirt and worry about eating.


--Ginger Rogers (as ) in Romance in Manhattan

[He is reading a telegram]
Alberto Beddini: 'Come ahead. stop. Stop being a sap. stop. You can even bring Alberto. stop. My husband is stopping at your hotel. stop. when do you start. stop.' I cannot understand who wrote this.
Dale Tremont: Sounds like Gertrude Stein.


--Ginger Rogers (as Dale Tremont) in Top Hat

Newsboy: (shouting) Petrov and Keene: secret marriage!
Peter P. Peters: We're the only two people in New York who don't think we're married.
Linda Keene: Think? I know we're not.
Peter P. Peters: I'm beginning to have my doubts.


--Ginger Rogers (as Linda Keene) in Shall We Dance

Dale Tremont: How could he have made love to me when he was married all the time -- and to Madge of all people!


--Ginger Rogers (as Dale Tremont) in Top Hat

Dale Tremont: How could I have fallen in love with anyone as low as you!


--Ginger Rogers (as Dale Tremont) in Top Hat

Mimi Glossop: [singing] Beautiful music... Dangerous rhythm... It's something daring, The Continental. A way of dancing that's really 'entre nous'. It's very subtle, The Continental, because it does what you want it to do. It has a passion, The Continental. An invitation to moonlight and romance. It's quite the fashion, The Continental, because you tell of your love while you dance. Your lips whisper so tenderly. Her eyes answer your song. Two bodies swaying, The Continental, and you are saying just what you're dreaming of. So keep on dancing, The Continental. For it's a song of romance and of love. You kiss while you're dancing... The Continental, it's continental. You sing while you're dancing. Your voice is gentle and sentimental. You stroll together arm in arm. You non-challantly glide along with grace and charm. You will find while you're dancing that there's a rhythm in your heart and soul -- a certain rhythm that you can't control and you will do the Continental all the time.


--Ginger Rogers (as Mimi Glossop) in The Gay Divorcee

Penny Carroll: Listen. No one could teach you to dance in a million years. Take my advice and save your money!


--Ginger Rogers (as Penny Carroll) in Swing Time