- Detective Robert Goren: [admiringly, as Esther blocks her apartment entrance] You are *tough,* Mrs. Gruenwald. 'Cause normally, Detective Eames and I - we'd be in the living room by now.
- Detective Robert Goren: You must love dancing. You're just so - so light on your feet.
- Marion Whitney: I'm a student of the dance.
- [Marion exits the room]
- Detective Alexandra Eames: Dance of the Merry Widow.
- Delia Carter: Oh, yes. "Bound for Broadway"... Our seniors enjoy it. Of course, it helps that they're a little hard of hearing.
- Esther Gruenwald: [referring to her son] He thinks they care about him. They don't care. How could they? I mean, he sweats; that thing with his face...
- Harvey Gruenwald: [smiling fixedly into the bathroom mirror] Thank you so much for coming... Thank you...
- Esther Gruenwald: [pounding on bathroom door] Harvey! What are you doing in there?
- Harvey Gruenwald: Ma! I'm busy!
- Marion Whitney: [onstage, rehearsing soliloquy as Lady Macbeth] "Come, you spirits that tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here and fill me - "
- [Offstage, Marion's acting coach Lawrence Bradley stifles a yawn]
- Marion Whitney: " - from the crown to the toe..." Harvey? Harvey! Who's going to be in the front row?
- Detective Robert Goren: Do you have a lot of students in their sixties? Fifties? Forties?
- Lawrence Bradley: No.
- Detective Alexandra Eames: I'm guessing twenty-five is the cutoff for actresses. Twenty-six if they're pretty.
- Lawrence Bradley: You have no idea.
- Esther Gruenwald: [to her son] You go ahead, have your picture taken with them all you want. That doesn't mean they respect you.
- Detective Robert Goren: You see, Harvey, you need the approval of one special person; but Marion here, well, she wants - you know, the whole *world* to love her.
- Marion Whitney: This can't be happening to me.
- Detective Alexandra Eames: Sorry, it looks like you forgot your ruby slippers.
- Harvey Gruenwald: [Talking about Marion Whitney] Oh, ma. I thought you'd like her.
- Esther Gruenwald: Why? Are you getting married?