- [first lines]
- Ray Lloyd: What do you see in that girl?
- Mr. Barnes: Ah, well...
- Ray Lloyd: I'll tell you. All that's beautiful, clean, decent, desirable, wholesome, and commercial. You'll photograph in color, of course.
- Mr. Barnes: Of course.
- Ray Lloyd: Come here. Look at that girl. Here.
- [hands Barnes some binoculars]
- Mr. Barnes: Oh, thank you.
- Ray Lloyd: Her smile has sold more toothpaste, her legs more nylons, her middle more girdles than you could possibly believe.
- Mr. Barnes: I believe everything.
- Ray Lloyd: Described by 'Look' magazine as the girl with the perfect figure. She could run away with the Miss America title, any year, but I won't let her compete.
- Mr. Barnes: Why?
- Ray Lloyd: Wouldn't be fair. Besides, I need her here with me.
- Ray Lloyd: She's been working with me since she was 15. Oh, you should have seen her. Just bones stuck together with freckles. Who do you think made those shoulders and legs? Me. And of course, Florida oranges.
- Ray Lloyd: This is the worst television set ever made. I had Cynthia make love to it, became a bestseller in two weeks.
- Ray Lloyd: American industry owes me a debt that can never be paid. I have made this country bathing-suit-minded. This freezer, for instance. Nobody bought it, not even the man who made it. Since I put Marie on top of it, they can't turn them out fast enough.
- Ray Lloyd: Beautiful Cypress Gardens. Take a look! See for yourself. I personally chose every plant, every tree, and every girl.
- Julie Hallerton: Do you know I work 16 hours a day for you? I waterski, I swim, I pose for pictures. I smile at the tourists in this hoop skirt, take dictation, type. Why don't you ask me to mow the lawn?
- Mr. Barnes: How do you manage to stay single?
- Ray Lloyd: Well, in this business, you can have only one boss. You get married, that's two bosses. That means trouble. So, I stay single and beautiful Cypress Gardens stays one big happy family.
- Ben: Gee, baby doll, you really hurt him pretty bad.
- Julie Hallerton: Hurt him? Oh, if I only could. If I could squeeze one human feeling out of that man, I'd give anything!
- Ray Lloyd: Mr. Barnes flew five hours today just to get here.
- Julie Hallerton: And I've been walking on the water for six hours.
- Julie Hallerton: I'm quitting. I'm gonna marry Hank.
- Ray Lloyd: Hank? That leftover from the Mr. America contest? Oh, no. I'll bet you've never even seen him with his clothes on.
- Julie Hallerton: Tonight, I'm gonna enjoy myself. For one heavenly, brief moment, I'm gonna enjoy myself!
- Ray Lloyd: What do you see in him? He'd Indian wrestle you dawn to midnight. What kind of life is that?
- Julie Hallerton: What kind of life is this?
- Julie Hallerton: Eight years of you. Eight years in and out of a bathing suit 20 times a day. In and out...
- Julie Hallerton: I've got him hooked.
- Nancy Parmel: Who's hooked? Who hooked who?
- Julie Hallerton: Human fish catches man. Stranger than fiction.
- Julie Hallerton: He keeps me in the water 18 hours a day as it is. What does he think I am, a fish?
- Nancy Parmel: If you are, you're the strangest one I ever saw. A fish who'd like to be hooked by that penny-pinching slave driver.
- Ray Lloyd: Angel, meet Barry Gordon. He's willing to kiss you for Ted.
- Julie Hallerton: That's very nice of you.
- Barry Gordon: Anytime. Anytime at all.
- Barry Gordon: Say, who's the body?
- Joe - Photographer: A doll from Florida.
- Barry Gordon: Now I know what they mean by the solid South.
- Julie Hallerton: I'm going to have some fun. I'm going dancing - and I'm gonna kill myself on an overdose of champagne and caviar.
- Ray Lloyd: You've gotta look fresh for the Citrus Queen contest. Hold it, will you? There's stiff competition! The California girl's a knockout. Four years younger than you are.
- [Julie slams the door in his face]
- Barry Gordon: You know, my curiosity has gotten the best of me. I'd like to know more about you.
- [singing]
- Barry Gordon: It's not that I'm inquisitive, It's because I love you so, This is not an investigation, It's just that I'd like to know, Did you ever, did you ever, did you ever, Kiss before? Did you ever, did you ever, did you ever, Whisper just once more? Did you tremble? Did you tingle? Did your heart begin to jingle, Like a pocket, That was loaded full of dimes? Did you like it when you did it? If you did it, then admit it, Did you have such wonderful times? Did you ever, did you ever, did you ever, Get that thrill? Did you ever, did you ever, did you ever...
- Ray Lloyd: [setting up a lipstick advertisement photo shoot] Now, Mr. Gordon, would you mind stepping around the back of the couch and sitting there? The idea is you love the taste of that lipstick. You know what I mean?
- Barry Gordon: Yes, I think I do.
- Ray Lloyd: Now, just put your arm around her and then pretend you're kissing her.
- [Barry immediately kisses Julie]
- Ray Lloyd: Well, that's it. Shoot it. Swell, shoot it.
- Joe - Photographer: Would you mind if I took one more?
- Julie Hallerton: Not at all.
- Barry Gordon: Go right ahead.
- [kisses Julie again]
- Ray Lloyd: That does it.
- Julie Hallerton: You better take another one. I think I moved.
- Barry Gordon: Yes you did. She moved.
- Julie Hallerton: I moved. I *moved*.
- Ray Lloyd: With his voice, anybody can sing like that. I wonder what he looks like in a bathing suit. Probably can't even swim.
- Julie Hallerton: I'd sure love to teach him.
- Julie Hallerton: [looking at a champagne bottle] 1927 - the year I was born. Isn't that terrible? Bottled up all those years, just like me.
- [pours a glass]
- Julie Hallerton: Look at it bubble. Feels good to be free, doesn't it?
- Clarice: Who is she?
- Barry Gordon: A customer.
- Clarice: A customer? For what?
- Barry Gordon: Silly child. Can't you see she's with a man?
- Clarice: I was with a man too the first time you met me.
- Barry Gordon: That was different. He was your husband.
- Barry Gordon: [singing] Don't stand quite so near, I'm not what I seem to appear, Look out, I'm romantic, Be careful, my dear, Your eyes have a manner of glowing, That makes you so hard to resist, Don't tempt me for once I get going, I won't stop, Until you've been kissed...
- Julie Hallerton: You're awfully sweet. Well, no, no. I really - I just couldn't possibly. No. Well, I shouldn't...
- Julie Hallerton: Imagine what I've been missing on account of that monster. Putting me to bed every night at 10 o'clock in New York. You wouldn't do that to a girl, would you, Barry?
- Barry Gordon: Ten o'clock? Never. Come on, let's dance.
- Julie Hallerton: Ohh, you're *so* nice.
- Barry Gordon: [singing] Tell me why you keep fooling, Little coquette, Making fun of the ones who love you, Breaking hearts you are ruling, Little coquette...
- Julie Hallerton: I've just got to get back to Florida.
- Barry Gordon: What do you do down there?
- Julie Hallerton: Waterski, swim, do four shows a day. In between shows, I do secretarial work, pose for ads, take dictation...
- Barry Gordon: [watching Julie audition for the Water Follies] Well, how do you like her?
- Oscar Levenson: Eh. When does she type?
- Barry Gordon: Huh?
- Oscar Levenson: You said she swims and types.
- Barry Gordon: Not at the same time!
- Barry Gordon: Hey, why didn't you tell me? You're good!
- Julie Hallerton: Am I?
- Barry Gordon: Oh, great, great.
- Freddie - Make-Up Man: Yeah, hurry up, hurry up. Always it's hurry up from that whip cracker. Makeup for the clown show. Get the costumes cleaned. Polish the skis. Next thing you know, he'll be having me press his pants.
- Julie Hallerton: I went to the nightclubs with him.
- Bandleader: With Barry Gordon? Well, what's wrong? Don't you like him?
- Julie Hallerton: Well, yes.
- Bandleader: Well, why don't you wanna speak to him?
- Julie Hallerton: Well, I don't know want to tell him.
- Bandleader: Tell him you got a girlfriend, stupid.
- Ray Lloyd: [inspecting a new costume design] It's cut too low.
- Ben: Not for me it isn't.
- Costume Designer: Well, it is a little bit revealing, but people love it!
- Ray Lloyd: You mean, men love it - and men come here with their wives. And wives hate the things their husbands love.
- Ben: You can't win, boss. It's no use. You know what my girl used to say to me? She used to say: "You can't fight nature, baby. You can't fight nature." She always said everything twice. So I didn't. So I got married.
- Ray Lloyd: So you don't fight nature anymore. You fight your wife.
- Ben: Oh, you're *so* right.
- Ray Lloyd: [Hanks storms in the office] Get out and knock first. And put your pants on. This isn't a nudist colony.
- Julie Hallerton: I can cook too! I can cook anything. Complicated French or exotic Hawaiian, heavy Hungarian, and just good, plain American. Of course, I don't have a kitchen.
- Nancy Parmel: Now, remember, now, you're hard to get, huh?
- Julie Hallerton: Don't worry, I won't say yes till he asks me.