- Boss Finley: [to Chance Wayne, after referring to him as 'Prince'] I once had a dog called Prince. I had to butcher him to keep all the bitches in town from being violated.
- Chance Wayne: The big difference between people is not between the rich and the poor, the good and the evil. The biggest of all differences between people is between those that have had pleasure and love and those who haven't.
- Boss Finley: [to Nonnie] Me... What about me?
- Aunt Nonnie: [Parting words to Boss Finley] You? You can go straight to hell!
- Alexandra Del Lago: [after looking at Chance Wayne, who seems quite proud of his looks] Well, I may have done better... but God knows I have done worse.
- Chance Wayne: This is pretty high-class pot. Where'd you get it?
- Alexandra Del Lago: You beautiful, stupid young man. That is not pot. It's hashish, Moroccan, and the finest.
- Chance Wayne: .I appeared in the biggest stage hit on Broadway. I had my picture on the cover of Life magazine! Woo-ha! And at the same time I was - employing my other talent: lovemaking.
- Alexandra Del Lago: That may be the only talent you were ever truly meant for.
- Chance Wayne: [Parting words to Alexandra del Lago] Princess, each of us has his own private hell to go to.
- Scotty: Leroy, did you know this is Chance Wayne... the famous Hollywood and Broadway celebrity?
- Leroy: Really?
- Bud: Sure. All bartenders become movie stars. Right, Chance?
- Chance Wayne: Oh, well. What he's trying to say is that I had your job for too long. You know, I designed that uniform you've got on. I copied it from an outfit Cary Grant wore in his Foreign Legion picture. It looks great on you, kid.
- Chance Wayne: Well, some more oxygen?
- Alexandra Del Lago: No. No, I must look hideous in it.
- Chance Wayne: Oh, no, honey. You just look exotic. Yeah. Like a princess from Mars or a... big magnified insect.
- Dr. George Scudder: [He's just observed Chance popping a pill] What is that you just took?
- Chance Wayne: [Indifferently] A pill.
- Dr. George Scudder: What kind of pill?
- Chance Wayne: Oh, Benny. Benzedrine.
- Dr. George Scudder: On prescription?
- Chance Wayne: Yeah, sort of...
- Chance Wayne: [Cynically] A goofball makes the world keep its balance.
- Heavenly Finley: You have got an illusion of power, Boss.
- Boss Finley: I have power - and that is no illusion.
- Boss Finley: A lot of folks say they like what I did but they don't like the way I did it. But if a bunch of hogs won't come out of your garden when you holler: Sooie! - then you've gotta use language and methods that hogs and pigs understand. Do you understand?
- Chance Wayne: George, George. You're the only grown man I know that still says "gee" and "golly" and "gosh."
- Dr. George Scudder: Well, I'm not as sophisticated as you.
- Alexandra Del Lago: Did we spend the night together?
- Chance Wayne: Oh, yes, ma'am. But I did not molest you.
- Alexandra Del Lago: Well, should I thank you for that or accuse you of cheating?
- Chance Wayne: [intervening as he sees Fly the bellboy unzipping Princess's/Alexandra's luggage] Hey! What're you doin'?
- Fly: Don't you want these unpacked, sir?
- Chance Wayne: Oh, well, uh, the Princess is kinda finicky about her things; I'll take care-a that later.
- Fly: Yes sir.
- Chance Wayne: And, uh, about that bottle...
- Fly: [without looking back and obviously showing friendly discretion] I didn't see any bottle, Mr. Wayne.
- Chance Wayne: How'd you know my name?
- Fly: I used to wait tables at the Country Club when you'd come dancing with the same young lady; that pretty young lady, Boss Finley's daughter.
- Chance Wayne: Yeah. What're you called?
- Fly: Fly, just like the fly, sir.
- Chance Wayne: Fly, now when you haul up the rest of the things, could you, uh, bring up a bottle-a vodka and some ice?
- Fly: Yes sir.
- Chance Wayne: And, uh, write yourself a five dolla tip on the check.
- Fly: Yes sir.
- Chance Wayne: Now, uh, shoo Fly.
- [Fly leaves the hotel suite]
- Chance Wayne: Princess, just smoke.
- Alexandra Del Lago: Oh, yes. Smoke. And after this - the mercenary young lovers.
- Chance Wayne: Like me?
- Alexandra Del Lago: Yes, like you.
- Alexandra Del Lago: That water. Is that the Pacific Ocean?
- Chance Wayne: No, ma'am, that's the Gulf.
- Alexandra Del Lago: What Gulf?
- Chance Wayne: The gulf of misunderstanding between you and me.
- Chance Wayne: Don't you trust me?
- Alexandra Del Lago: Who taught you to rub desperate ladies the right way? And you say all you did was manipulate the papaya cream?
- Chance Wayne: Well, more or less.
- Alexandra Del Lago: How much more?
- Chance Wayne: Ma'am, if we'd made love, you'd have remembered it.
- Alexandra Del Lago: Well, what stopped you? Certainly not I. And certainly not *your* ethics.
- Chance Wayne: Aren't you ashamed a little?
- Alexandra Del Lago: Yes. Aren't you?
- Chance Wayne: More than a little.
- Alexandra Del Lago: Close the curtains, please. Then come here to me. And make me almost believe that we are a pair of young lovers without any shame.
- Chance Wayne: Princess, now, look, you've gotta open the right doors for me. I know you're gonna do this for me, Princess. Because, I have been knocking on those doors of success till my insides are bloody. Because that's the way I've been knocking on those doors, see, with my bare insides!
- Alexandra Del Lago: You will open only one door: The door to my car as my chauffeur. You will wake me in the morning, as my butler or my lover, depending on what *I* want. In a few years, you will be through with your good looks and I will be through with you. And that is the truth. Can you face the truth?
- Alexandra Del Lago: Look at yourself. What do you see? What? A nameless face, that's what you see. Oh, I remember faces like yours. I remember young men with dreams like yours. I remember their eyes, I remember their voices, I remember their smiles, I remember their bodies. But their names, their names have gone. They're just nameless bodies.
- [first lines]
- Alexandra Del Lago: Hey. Hey, you, whoever you are.
- Chance Wayne: Are you awake now, princess?
- Alexandra Del Lago: I want a drink.
- Chance Wayne: Oh, soon, princess.
- Alexandra Del Lago: I want it now! Oh, please, please get me a drink. For Gods sake, baby, don't hold out on me.
- Chance Wayne: Don't tell me that man with the middle-age spread is Dan Hatcher. Chance. Chance Wayne.
- Dan Hatcher: I never expected to see you again. Not in these hereabouts anyway.
- Chance Wayne: Well, just because a man's *successful* is no reason to forget his old hometown.
- Thomas J. Finley, Jr.: You surprise me, Ben. For a man who's smart enough to run a big daily newspaper, you sure surprise me. Can't you recognize New York, Red propaganda when you see it?
- Boss Finley: I expect you and your Daughters of Dixie to be there.
- Mrs. Maribelle Norris: God bless you, honey.
- Boss Finley: I've hawked and spit all my life - and I'll go on hawkin' and spittin' till the end of my days. You can bet on that.
- Boss Finley: They say I stole their oil rights. Well, if'n I did, I stole it for my state and my people. I also fought the fertilizer trust. I lowered taxes. I saved our hog-raisers from the Chicago meatpackers.
- Boss Finley: Let me tell you something, laddie. This here is America. Today you're nobody, tomorrow you're somebody. But you got to think big, act big, and you'll be big.
- Boss Finley: In this world, there's only one payoff window. Number one. The winner. Success. Now, that can be you.
- Boss Finley: You're my kind of man. You got ambition, ideas, youth. And the good looks to go with them too.
- Boss Finley: Supposin' Mr. Wayne didn't just happen to come back. Supposin' he was sent for - to smear his stink over Heavenly and, through her, over me.
- Boss Finley: I'm only tryin' to save my baby from being hurt ever again.
- Heavenly Finley: How? By insistin' I marry Dr. George Scudder? And before him, a 50-year-old moneybags you needed for your business?
- Boss Finley: Me? Sell my own flesh and blood?
- Heavenly Finley: More than once. Remember the Texas oil tycoon? And the Washington wheel? All of them rich, all of them important.
- Boss Finley: Every one of them had a powerful feelin' for you.
- Boss Finley: Burnin' books, Halloween masks. You're just plain stupid, boy. Least you could've done is wear white hoods and burned a cross on his lawn. Then the Ku Klux Klan would've been blamed for it.
- Thomas J. Finley, Jr.: Oh, my.
- Boss Finley: You better stop laughin' at nothin' or you'll end up in a nuthouse, committed there by me.
- Heavenly Finley: There was a time when you could've saved me, Papa, by lettin' me marry Chance, when we were both young and clean.
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