- Abercrombie: I gotta break the date.
- Ruthie: What date?
- Abercrombie: Don't you remember? June 22nd?
- Ruthie: June 22nd? I don't remember anything about a date.
- Abercrombie: Oh, yes. Don't you remember? I said I was gonna take you to the Palladium a long time ago, and you said, 'See me next year.' Well, tonight the year is up.
- Abercrombie: [starting to shave Rags] Now, I got the razor and the smelling salts.
- Rags Ragland: The what?
- Abercrombie: The smellin' salts.
- Rags Ragland: What's that for?
- Abercrombie: I faint when I see the sight of blood.
- Rags Ragland: Oh...
- Rags Ragland: [after a delayed reaction] Blood! Look, if you cut me, there's gonna be plenty of blood, and it's all gonna be yours!
- Mr. Burvis, Ruthie's Boss: [reacting to a verbal spat between two of his manicurists] My shop is for hair cutting, not hair pulling!
- Gregory LeMaise: [In disguise with a beard] Did you ever hear the one about the guy who was so brave he stuck his right arm into a lion's mouth, right up to there.
- [he motions to his shoulder]
- Abercrombie: [also in disguise] He stuck his right arm in a lion's mouth up to there?
- [also motioning to his shoulder]
- Gregory LeMaise: Yeah!
- Abercrombie: His right arm?
- Gregory LeMaise: Yeah!
- Abercrombie: What's his name?
- Gregory LeMaise: Lefty!
- [he breaks into raucous laughter]
- Abercrombie: [he spills his drink into Ambercrombie's turban which is on his lap] You get it?
- Abercrombie: [both are laughing] I didn't get it that time.
- Gregory LeMaise: You didn't?
- Abercrombie: No, no.
- Gregory LeMaise: Lefty!
- [he laughs even louder as Ambercrombie absentmindedly puts his turban on, drenching himself with the drink]
- Gregory LeMaise: [Ambercrombie stops laughing] You know, you're a great fellow. You made me forget my troubles.
- Abercrombie: You've drowned mine!
- Gregory LeMaise: [laughs] You've got troubles too?
- Abercrombie: Yes, sir.
- Gregory LeMaise: [laughing] No, but I've got real troubles. I killed a man!
- Abercrombie: [reacting to the camera] A man killed me. That's why I'm wearing this fake beard.
- Abercrombie: A face like mine is hard to forget.
- Buzz Kurtis: How do you know?
- Abercrombie: I've been tryin' for years!
- Buzz Kurtis: You can't sleep?
- Abercrombie: No.
- Buzz Kurtis: I've got just the thing for you. Don't go away.
- [He leaves the room]
- Buzz Kurtis: [returning with a phonograph record] Well, pal, here it is.
- Abercrombie: What do you got there?
- Buzz Kurtis: [reading the label] 'Go To Sleep with Dr. Caswell Snide.'
- Abercrombie: Oh, no! I wanna sleep alone!
- Buzz Kurtis: Now, listen. This is even better than you getting socked. You're dead!
- Abercrombie: If I'm dead, then... then why am I so hungry?