- Carmen Jones: I always did want to see the big town.
- Frankie: You got your wish, honey. Somethin' tells me Chicago's gonna be real good for you.
- Myrt: Somethin' tells me you gonna be real *bad* for Chicago.
- Joe: Thanks, but I don't drink.
- Carmen Jones: Boy, if the army was made up of nothin' but soldiers like you, war wouldn't do nobody no good.
- Carmen Jones: [singing] Dat's love, You go for me, And I'm taboo, But if you're hard to get, I go for you, And if I do, Den you are through, Boy, my baby, that's the end of you...
- Carmen Jones: Let the old buzzard flap his wings right over me. Till he comes down and gets me, I got a lotta livin' to do.
- Frankie: [singing] I wanna dance, It's sumpin' thumpin' in de bass, That thump-thump-thumpin' on the music, Dat bump-bump-bumpin' on the music, Is all I need, To start me off...
- Frankie: [singing] Tomorrow mornin' let it rain, Tomorrow mornin' let it pour, Tonight we in the groove together, Ain't gonna worry 'bout Stormy Weather, Gonna kick ol' trouble out de door!
- Dink Franklin: Look, baby, let's talk turkey. Tomorrow mornin', I gotta produce you in Chicago. I don't care what it costs. Husky Miller will sign the bill. When he goes crazy for a chick, that chick starts lookin' like a neon sign, all lit up with diamonds.
- Carmen Jones: Diamonds ain't what I want of a man. If I love him, he don't need no checkbook. If I don't, a checkbook ain't gonna do him no good.
- Carmen Jones: I want to go someplace where you're the last thing I see at night, first thing I see in the morning.
- Joe: I'm busted. I gave the last of my pay to the landlady.
- Carmen Jones: I got some jingly stuff.
- Joe: I ain't gonna let you shell out.
- Carmen Jones: We gotta eat, growin' boy.
- Joe: Not on your dough.
- Carmen Jones: What's mine's yours, Joey, and that goes right down the line.
- Frankie: Love? Nobody lives on that street forever. Not with the same man. You're bound to move, maybe sooner than you want to believe.
- Carmen Jones: I don't account to no man.
- Joe: You're accountin' to me. I love you and that gives me the right to...
- Carmen Jones: That don't give you no right to own me. There's only one that does - and that's me. Myself.
- Carmen Jones: Maybe you ain't got the message yet, but Carmen's one gal nobody puts on a leash. No man's gonna tell me when I can come and go. I gotta be free.
- Joe: I could stay in this place the rest of my life and never go out - as long as you're here. But when you ain't, it's worse than jail. Ain't no light, no air.
- Carmen Jones: Suppose I never come back?
- Joe: You'd never get away from me. I'd follow you down the rivers, across the sea, to hell or up to heaven. Why'd you ask?
- Carmen Jones: Just to hear you say it.
- Cindy Lou: Oh, Joe. I know I ain't smart like you; but, if the way I feel makes up for it, then I is way ahead.
- Carmen Jones: I'd like to toss a party for you tonight at Billy Pastor's. Give you a real send-off. Pick me up at eight. We'll have ourselves a ball.
- Joe: Sorry. I got a date.
- Carmen Jones: Honeybee, if you change your mind, you know where to buzz me.
- Carmen Jones: You're wastin' time right now, Sergeant. Wind's blowin' me in another direction. Ain't no use arguin' with the wind.
- Cindy Lou: I know what the fellas say: if you got a gal in another town, you ain't got no gal at all.
- Carmen Jones: Sugar, you ain't gonna take me to the cooler, are ya? Can't do you much good once I'm in jail. What you say we drive to a place I know on the edge of town? I'll show you more fun than you ever had.
- Carmen Jones: [singing] How can a lady drink alone? How can a lady dance alone? No lady can romance alone, I oughta have a sweetie-pie...
- Carmen Jones: Okay, honey. Accelerate me all you want. The harder I get bumped, the more of me bounces.
- Dink Franklin: [singing] Well, shut my mouth and call me dumb
- Rum Daniels: And beat me, I'm a kettledrum
- Rum Daniels, Dink Franklin: The birdies in the trees are hummin'...
- Husky Miller: What are you getting paid for, to manage me in the ring or K.O. me with the dames?
- Rum Daniels: This chick needs a big investment of time, which you is mighty short of, with the train waitin'.
- Husky Miller: [singing] Out in the blackness, Out in the blackness, You can feel a hundred thousand eyes fill the night, Cigarettes are blinkin' in the dark, And makin' polka dots around the baseball park...
- Dink Franklin: Hey, what's he mean, go find yourself a new meal ticket?
- Rum Daniels: He means I don't eat. And, brother, if I don't eat, you starve.
- Carmen Jones: Go to flyin' school. Take off right now! Then lay in your bunk, look up at them pin-up gals! See what that gets you, droopy drawers.
- Carmen Jones: Boy, if you ain't a lover red-hot for Carmen. You just burnin' up with passion. You sizzle like a fish on ice!
- Carmen Jones: Can you let me have a couple of bills?
- Frankie: You talkin' to the wrong party. There's your bank, with all the doors wide open. You just tell Husky what you want. He's just percolatin' to take care of you real good.
- Frankie: Keep your soldier boy. But, that don't mean you gotta walk out on a convertible, gold-lace nightgown - oh, everything.
- Carmen Jones: You know two-timin' ain't my speed.
- Frankie: Well, just shift gears and join the female race. Keep one man for the ride and one for the money.
- Carmen Jones: [singing] If you wanna start a fire, Where a fire was before, De coal you burn must be new coal, Our flame is out, Cold as the snow, We had ourselves some fun, Didn't we? And now it's done...