Stage Door1937

Terry:
By what right do you barricade yourself behind closed doors and refuse to see people?

Powell:
That happens to be none of your business.

Terry:
Do you know a girl just fainted in your outer office because you broke an appointment with her?

Powell:
I'm sorry, I didn't know.

Terry:
As long as you keep that door closed, you'll never know anything. You're a producer. You ought to see people. Why, the greatest actress in the world might be living out there fifteen feet away from you and you'd never even give her a chance!

Powell:
Are you the greatest actress in the world?

Terry:
Never mind about me, I don't need you, but those other girls do. They sweat and slave and go without food and decent clothes in the hope that someday, someone like you will come out of his office and notice them.

Powell:
Do you realize that if I saw all of the girls that came up here that I wouldn't have time for anything else?...Every year, about fifty thousand girls decide that they want to go on the stage for one reason or another. Well, forty-nine thousand, five hundred of them are wrong! They'd be much better off home washing dishes...They'd be so much better off at home raising families.