It's a Date (1940)

Henry Stephenson: Captain Andrew

Quotes 

• Captain Andrew : [after Pamela had told an annoying young man that the captain was her father]  How's my daughter?

  John Arlen : She's got quite an imagination. She not only imagined a proposal out of me, but she turned me down.

• John Arlen : She even wanted to pay for my fare.

  Captain Andrew : How did you get out of that?

  John Arlen : Well, I sort of hinted I'm wanted by the police. She hinted it, as a matter of fact. I just dropped my eyes.

• John Arlen : Do you know, she's got it all worked out how I'm gonna get of this boat - in her clothes.

  Captain Andrew : Oh, I can't wait to see that.

  John Arlen : Oh, you can't, huh?

• John Arlen : And will you tell me where she gets it all?

  Captain Andrew : She bribes the steward - says she has a tape worm.

• Captain Andrew : How about a little chess now?

  John Arlen : You must owe me a couple million now, as it is, don't you?

  Captain Andrew : Oh, it's one million, eight hundred thousand. But I've been reading up on this. Just you watch yourself.

  John Arlen : So, you've learned to read, have you?

• John Arlen : When kids that age get a cross-up in love, they never think of going on a drunk or looking for somebody else. You get that smart when you get older. You can walk down to the river and look at it all night. Some of them jump if they're hurt bad enough.

  Captain Andrew : She looks like the jumping kind, too.

• Captain Andrew : [after fishing Pamela and John out of the drink]  Well, I'm not sorry that it happened.

  John Arlen : Oh, so you're not sorry?

  Captain Andrew : No. She's a wonderful person, that girl, to have done what she did.

• John Arlen : She has quite an imagination.

  Captain Andrew : Mmm. Of course, you haven't helped her at all.