- Fanny Brice: [at her first meeting Billy Rose] If we hate the same people and you get your suit cleaned, it's a match.
- Billy Rose: [referring to having borrowed money from the mob to finance his show] They're gonna build me into the West Side Highway.
- Fanny Brice: That's the only good news I've heard tonight.
- Billy Rose: I'm not kidding.
- Fanny Brice: Neither am I.