I Cover the Waterfront (1933)

Ben Lyon: H. Joseph 'Joe' Miller

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Quotes 

• Joe Miller : Well, I'll be seeing you.

  Julie Kirk : You've seen too much of me already

• Joe Miller : You wouldn't go for a kiss, would you?

  Julie Kirk : No. Not very far.

• [Joe tosses Julie her swimsuit] 

  Joe Miller : Take this out and have it filled.

• [first lines] 

  Joe Miller : [on the phone]  Hello, Thelma, this is Miller. No, I don't want the desk. I want to talk to Phelps.

• Eli Kirk : [after shooting Ben Miller]  How does that feel?

  Joe Miller : Kinda hot.

• Joe Miller : Come on, let's play a love scene.

  Julie Kirk : Let's fall in love first.

• Joe Miller : You wouldn't go for that kiss now, would you?

  Julie Kirk : Say, I thought you came down here to work.

  Joe Miller : Well, if you don't think it's work getting a kiss out of you, you're nuts.

• Joe Miller : I've got the finish for my novel.

  Julie Kirk : What is it?

  Joe Miller : He marries the girl.

  Julie Kirk : That's a swell finish.

• Julie Kirk : Oh, I get it - you're a ventriloquist.

  Joe Miller : No, I'm just a dummy.

• Randall : Take one of our little booklets.

  Joe Miller : Oh, take one of those little booklets yourself and stick it in your back pocket. I know more about this boat than you do.

• Joe Miller : [In the bottom of an old Spanish prison ship]  Oh, yeah, this was, this, this was the manicure parlor. Now with these things they take and uh, pull your fingernails out.

• Joe Miller : [Looking around at his tidied apartment]  You did this?

  Julie Kirk : Yes.

  Joe Miller : Why?

  Julie Kirk : Well, I had something to say to you, 'n this is my way of saying it. You like it?

  Joe Miller : I think its swell.

• One Punch McCoy : When two guys agree, one of them is unnecessary.

  Joe Miller : All city editors are unnecessary.

• Julie Kirk : I'll bet it was a woman.

  Joe Miller : Of course -- no gentleman would say a word.