42nd Street Quotes

Ann Lowell It must have been hard on your mother, not having any children.

Jerry It seems that little Loraine's hit the bottle again.

Mac Elroy Yah, the peroxide bottle.

Ann Lowell Matrimony is baloney.

Lorraine Fleming She'll be wanting alimony in a year or so;

Ann Lowell, Lorraine Fleming Still they go and shuffle, shuffle off to Buffalo.

Ann Lowell When she knows as much as we know, she'll be on her way to Reno,

Lorraine Fleming While he still has dough; she'll give him the shuffle

Ann Lowell, Lorraine Fleming When they're back from Buffalo.

Ann Lowell I'll bet that she's the farmer's daughter

Lorraine Fleming And he's that well-known traveling man;

Ann Lowell He once stopped down at the farm house,

Lorraine Fleming That's how the whole affair began!

Ann Lowell He did right by little Nelly, with a shotgun at his bel... tummy, How could he say "No?

Ann Lowell, Lorraine Fleming He just had to shuffle, shuffle off to Buffalo.

Dorothy Brock Now go out there and be so swell that you'll make me hate you!

Lorraine You remember Anne Lowell?

Andy Lee Not Anytime Annie? Say, who could forget er? She only said "No" once, and THEN she didn't hear the question!

Julian Marsh All right, now, everybody. Quiet, and listen to me. Tomorrow morning, we're gonna start a show. We're gonna rehearse for five weeks and we're gonna open on scheduled time. - And I mean scheduled time. You're gonna work and sweat and work some more. You're gonna work days and you're gonna work nights. And you're gonna work between time when I think you need it. You're gonna dance until your feet fall off and you're not able to stand up any longer. BUT five weeks from now, we're going to have a show! Now, some of you people have been with me before. You know it's gonna be a tough grind. It's gonna be the toughest five weeks that you ever lived through. Do you all get that? Now anybody who doesn't think he's gonna like it had better quit right now. What do I hear? Nobody? Good. Then that's settled. We start tomorrow morning.

Julian Marsh Sawyer, you listen to me, and you listen hard. Two hundred people, two hundred jobs, two hundred thousand dollars, five weeks of grind and blood and sweat depend upon you. It's the lives of all these people who've worked with you. You've got to go on, and you've got to give and give and give. They've got to like you. Got to. Do you understand? You can't fall down. You can't because your future's in it, my future and everything all of us have is staked on you. All right, now I'm through, but you keep your feet on the ground and your head on those shoulders of yours and go out, and Sawyer, you're going out a youngster but you've got to come back a star!

Slim Murphy Hey got a match?

Pat Denning Yep... why I guess so... yeah.

Slim Murphy Don't happen to know a guy named Pat Denning do ya?

Pat Denning Why yes.

Slim Murphy We got a message for him. This guy Pat Denning's a pretty wise mug but he ain't wise enough and if he don't lay off that Dorothy Brock dame, it's gonna be just too bad... for Denning, get me?

Pat Denning Alright I'll tell him.

Slim Murphy Yeah well... That's so ya don't forget.

Mug with Murphy Yeah

Peggy Sawyer Ohhhhh Pat... Pat... Pat... who were they?

Pat Denning Friends... with good advice.

Julian Marsh You'll get your Pretty Lady. You haven't got anything to worry about. I'm not gonna let you down because I can't afford to. I've given everything I've had to that gulch down there and it's taken all I had to offer. Oh, it paid me, sure, in money I couldn't hang on to - fair-weather friends, women, headlines! Hah! Why even the cops and the newsboys recognize me on sight. Marsh, the Magnificent. Marsh the Slave-Driver! Actors tell ya how Marsh drove em and bullied em and even tore it out of em! And maybe there's a few that'll tell ya how Marsh really made em. And they've all got somethin to show for it - except Marsh.Well, this is my last shot! I'll make a few more actors. But this time, I'm gonna sock my money away so hard that they'll have to blast to find enough to buy a newspaper. That's why I'm goin ahead with Pretty Lady. And Pretty Lady's got to be a hit. It's my last show and it's got to be my best. You're counting on me. Well, I'm counting on Pretty Lady, because it's got to support me for a long time to come.

Julian Marsh * Bolded portion ranked #87 in the ] in American cinema.