Mrs. Delfina Acuña: I wish you wouldn't speak while I'm interrupting.

- Isobel Elsom (as Mrs. Maria Castro) in You Were Never Lovelier (1942)

Robert 'Bob' Davis: When do I start dancing?
Eduardo Acuña: You do not start dancing.
Robert 'Bob' Davis: But didn't you come to see me about?
Eduardo Acuña: About one of my daughters. The one you so gallantly referred to as "the inside of a refrigerator"?
Robert 'Bob' Davis: Oh... but, I'm afraid I don't follow you.
Eduardo Acuña: She thinks you're in love with her.
Robert 'Bob' Davis: Would it be rude of me to inquire if there is any insanity in your family?

- Fred Astaire (as Robert 'Bob' Davis) in You Were Never Lovelier (1942)

Eduardo Acuña: What's gotten into you, Maria? Nice girls don't act this way.
Maria Acuña: [Naughtily] Nice girls don't feel the way I do.
Eduardo Acuña: Why, you're brazen!
Maria Acuña: How could I be... with a heart like an ice cube?

- Rita Hayworth (as Maria Acuña) in You Were Never Lovelier (1942)

[discussing their daughter]
Eduardo Acuña: Maria is going to wait until the right man comes along.
Mrs. Delfina Acuña: Why should she? I didn't.

- Isobel Elsom (as Mrs. Maria Castro) in You Were Never Lovelier (1942)