Will you listen very, very carefully to me just for one... uh, this may be the last time I...

Paula McFadden:

Would you be interested in my bedroom? Elliot Garfield:
You talking to me? Paula McFadden:
You can have the big bedroom for 50 dollars more a month, payable in cash right now. We'll move into yours in the morning. Elliot Garfield:
Oh, you mean a rent increase for getting what I should have gotten and what I didn't get in the first place? No, thank you. Paula McFadden:
Well then, Would you be interested in lending me 50 dollars. I'll pay you either 7 and a half percent interest or do your laundry. Take your pick. Elliot Garfield:
They really cleaned you out, huh? Paula McFadden:
Everyone from here to Italy. Elliot Garfield:
I've got, uh, twenty... twenty-eight dollars and change. I'll split it with you. And starting opening night I get 240 a week so I'll make a deal. I'll pay all the living expenses until You get yourself a job. And, I'll even do my own laundry. Paula McFadden:
I see. And what do You get? Elliot Garfield:
Oh, all you have to do is be nice to me. Paula McFadden:
You go to hell! Elliot Garfield:
Will you listen very, very carefully to me just for one... uh, this may be the last time I ever speak to you. Not everyone in this world is after your magnificent body, lady. In the first place it's not so magnificent. It, it's fair, alright? But it's not keeping me up nights thinking about it, you know? I don't even think you're very pretty. Maybe if you smiled once in a while okay but I don't want you to do anything against your religion. And you are not the only person in this city ever to get dumped on! I, myself, am a recent dumpee. I am a dedicated actor, Paula, you know? I am dedicated to my art and my craft, I value what I do. And because of a mentally arthritic director I am about to play the second greatest role in the history of the English speaking theater like a double order of fresh California fruit salad. When I say nice I mean nice, you know? Decent and fair. I deserve it. Because I'm a nice Decent and fair person, I don't want to jump on your bones. I don't even want to see you in the morning. But I will tell you one thing I do like about you Paula. Lucy. Lucy's your best part. Lucy is worth putting up with you for. So here is 14 dollars for the care and feeding of that terrific kid. You get zippidy-do-da. You want any money? Borrow it from your 10 year old daughter. I am now going inside my room to meditate away my hostility toward you. Personally, I don't think it can be done!