Tugboat Annie Sails Again (1940)

Marjorie Rambeau: Tugboat Annie

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Quotes 

• Tugboat Annie : We've been a great success together. Him given the orders and me doin' - just as I please.

• J.B. Armstrong : [on the phone]  Sorry, I didn't know you were a woman.

  Tugboat Annie : Well, I've been a woman for a long time. But, I'm still the best tugboat man on the coast - and that's puttin' it mild.

• Tugboat Annie : [on the phone]  I'll be glad to meet ya. From what my boss said, I thought you were sort of a stuffed poultry pigeon.

  J.B. Armstrong : I beg your pardon?

  Tugboat Annie : But, I can tell we're going to be good pals. So long, Joe.

  J.B. Armstrong : So long, Joe?

• Tugboat Annie : I tell ya, Rosie, there's more ways than one of tyin' a knot in an elephant's tusk!

• Tugboat Annie : Rosie, some day, I'm gonna break me obligato in this infernal swivel chair.

• Tugboat Annie : Well, Alec Severn don't think I'm the man I used to be.

  Eddie Kent : He's crazy.

  Tugboat Annie : Sure. But, he's the boss.

• Eddie Kent : [after accidentally running into Eddie's car and pushing it over the dock into the water]  What's your name and address, baby?

  Peggy Armstrong : It's none of your business. And don't call me baby!

  Tugboat Annie : Bend the brat over your knee, Eddie!

  Eddie Kent : Thanks, Annie.

  [Gives Peggy a spanking] 

• Tugboat Annie : Sir, do you know what that little wildcat did?

  J.B. Armstrong : She's not a wildcat! She's my daughter.

• Tugboat Annie : Now, Mr. High Hat, maybe you'll give the boy your name and address.

• Tugboat Annie : All we want to know is the name that goes with that silly lookin' face of yours.

  J.B. Armstrong : My name is Armstrong. Joseph B. Armstrong.

• Tugboat Annie : Quit your laughin' - you grinnin' ape!

• Tugboat Annie : For the last two hours, waitin' for the sun to rise, I've been full of an empty feeling. There's somethin' rotten in the state of Dakota.

• Tugboat Annie : For the first time in me life, I'm gonna forget I'm a lady.

• Tugboat Annie : We may be in the wrong place at the right time, after all.

• Tugboat Annie : Bullwinkle, the hog's in dutch! Let's give him a hand.

• Tugboat Annie : My husband was the laziest man that ever went to bed with his shoes on.

• Tugboat Annie : Well, if it ain't my old fuzzy haired friend, Horatio Bullwinkle!

• Tugboat Annie : Captain, you're in a bad way. Your ship's down lower than Bullwinkle's chararcter.

• Eddie Kent : Its marvelous the way you bob up out of trouble.

  Tugboat Annie : You know, it is a strange thing, how some people can only rise in the world by gettin' into one hole after the other.

• J.B. Armstrong : Under the circumstances, I can't trust this dangerous responsibility to a woman.

  Tugboat Annie : Wait a minute...

  J.B. Armstrong : In spite of your long experience, it has been my observation that you're very apt to lose control of your emotions and your temper in moments of excitement. I can't take any chances. I'm sorry.

• Tugboat Annie : That ain't fair! My company...

  Capt. Bullwinkle : Ah, you're company's all wrapped up in your petticoats!

• Tugboat Annie : Mr. Armstrong, the only reason that you won't give me the contract is because I happen to be the sweet grandmother type, is that it?

  J.B. Armstrong : Yes.

  Tugboat Annie : Well, there's more ways to skin a skunk, than to kiss him to death.

  Capt. Bullwinkle : Meaning me?

  Tugboat Annie : Ah, keep your big nozzle off of it!

• Rosie : Oh, Annie, why did you ever pick that old windbag?

  Tugboat Annie : Oh, he's an old pal of me husband's. They sowed their wild onions together. And besides, Mike Mahoney knows more about the tides and the currents between here and Alaska than any man on the coast, present company except.

• Pete : I hope he shows up sober.

  Tugboat Annie : Oh, Mahoney don't drink no more. No, he took the cure last year. I know! I myself took him to the hospital and poured him into bed.

• Tugboat Annie : Well, how are ya?

  Capt. Mahoney : A little less than superb.

• Tugboat Annie : So that's what's in back of your mind. So, you're planin' to have Eddie all by yourself, for a month or more. Lolly-gaggin' in the moonlight. Well, listen to me you brazen manhunter, I'm puttin' you ashore, right now.

• Tugboat Annie : Well, there's one thing I like about you. You're spoiled, but, you're spunky!

• Tugboat Annie : Don't you say no to me! I'm the skipper here. And I'm gonna learn you discipline, my fancy little peacock. And before we get back from Skagway, you'll appreciate your father's money and bein' a pillar of society. And you'll understand about workin' people more than you do now; because, you're gonna be one them. You'll be earnin' your bread and board by the sweat of your brow.

• Tugboat Annie : Glory be! Could have never been closer to perdition till we get there.

• Tugboat Annie : What in the name of Brazil do you call that?

  Peggy Armstrong : Why, that's coffee. And you won't get any better till I learn how!

  Tugboat Annie : Coffee, is it?

  Peggy Armstrong : Yes, it's coffee.

  Tugboat Annie : I like it.

• Tugboat Annie : Holy mackerel! Cast off, I'm tellin' ya. I'm tellin' ya, Cast off!

• Tugboat Annie : [Last line]  Toodle-oo!