- Frankie' Merriweather: I play shakespeare in english, french, turkish, arabic...
- Bob Strong: How's your persian?
- Frankie' Merriweather: Oh, fine, she had kittens yesterday. Oh, you mean the Persian language, oh well, i speak that flawlessly well too, you see, I was a rug salesman, traveling out of Afghan... what's all this got to do with Shakespeare?
- Bob Strong: You were telling me.
- Lulu Perkins: You didn't tell me you were married. You should have told me!
- Frankie' Merriweather: Oh, what's a wife between friends?
- Frankie' Merriweather: [speaking of his singing] I could do anything a bird could do.
- Mr. Clyde Perkins: Could you lay an egg?
- Armand Francois: Listen, around here, everybody who is anybody is nobody. But everybody who is nobody, is a somebody.