- Benjamin Shorofsky: Well Leo, I'm concerned, of course, but how can I help?
- Leo Finklestein: How can you help?
- [slowly, emphasising each word]
- Leo Finklestein: How can you help?
- Benjamin Shorofsky: I asked you first.
- Benjamin Shorofsky: You see, Mr. Martelli, why your presence was required this afternoon? I'm being asked to choose between Miss Schwartz, who sings like an angel, and Miss Laird, who looks like one. Not an easy choice.
- Mrs. Berg: [carrying a large package] There you are, Miss Grant. A gentleman left this for you. I think he was a basketball person.
- Elizabeth Sherwood: Was he a cute basketball person?
- Mrs. Berg: A stone fox.
- Benjamin Shorofsky: [about Bruno] He's a very fine musician.
- Leo Finklestein: This is a Jewish benefit, he's Italian.
- Benjamin Shorofsky: If he were willing to contribute a million dollars, would you turn it down?
- Leo Finklestein: Is he willing?
- Benjamin Shorofsky: Yes!
- Leo Finklestein: Able?
- Benjamin Shorofsky: I don't believe so. What he can contribute is music.
- Leo Finklestein: Benjamin, a Leo Finklestein cannot deliver a Bruno Martelli to a Jewish benefit.
- Benjamin Shorofsky: You're being prejudist...
- Leo Finklestein: I am being kosher.
- Lydia Grant: You're about twelve hourse late for class, Mr. Gray.
- S.T. Gray: Well that's what I wanted to talk to you about, you see, I have this problem...
- Lydia Grant: Look, I am not a councelor, I'm a dance teacher.
- S.T. Gray: I have an excuse.
- Lydia Grant: I'm not interested.
- S.T. Gray: Really? I have a hard time believing that.
- Lydia Grant: You have a hard time with a lot of thing, Mr. Gray.
- S.T. Gray: Have dinner with me.
- Lydia Grant: [sarcastic giggle] Like timing, for instance.
- Lydia Grant: Oh, come on, why are you all making this into such a big ole deal? It's just a sport, a game...
- Quentin Morloch: Lawn tennis is a sport. Monopoly's a game. Basketball's a three dimensional metaphor for life itself, that's why it's such a 'big ole deal'.