- Jack Carson: Don't get your hopes up, he's been Leslie-ized.
- Jane Wyman: Oh will you stop, I've been Reagan-ized.
- [after unintentionally scaring away a marine sergeant]
- Peter Lorre: [sadly] All I wanted to ask him is to join me in a cigarette.
- Sydney Greenstreet: He didn't trust us, Peter.
- Peter Lorre: No... and we are such gentle people.
- Sydney Greenstreet: Are we?
- Peter Lorre: [Backs away, frightened]
- Sgt. Nowland: Goodbye you wonderful package of animal instinct.
- [they kiss passionately]
- Studio Guide: Every time I look at the Hollywoodland sign, I'll remember...
- Sgt. Nowland: I'll meet you there after the war... and we'll unscrew all the bulbs!
- Alan Hale: [Announcing to the audience in the canteen] Folks! The millionth man!
- Bette Davis: Its Slim!. Johnny, you arranged this.
- John Garfield: I swear, its on the level.
- Barbara Stanwyck: I thought you were hungry, Slim?
- Cpl. Slim Green: I am, ma'am, but, my stomach sort of jumped up into my heart.
- Jane Wyman: Barbara, here's a hungry soldier. Feed him plenty.
- Barbara Stanwyck: Okay.
- Cpl. Slim Green: You're Barbara Stanwyck.
- Barbara Stanwyck: How can you tell?
- Cpl. Slim Green: Because you look like you look only more so than I thought.
- Barbara Stanwyck: Well, I'm sorry I'm such a disappointment.
- Cpl. Slim Green: Disappointment? My gosh, I was more crazy about you than anybody until...
- Barbara Stanwyck: What came between us?
- Cpl. Slim Green: Joan Leslie.
- Barbara Stanwyck: Oh, darn! Well, maybe its for the best. Can I tell my husband its all over between us?
- Cpl. Slim Green: I know you've been right up close to Joan Leslie.
- Jack Carson: Oh, it's that way.
- Cpl. Slim Green: I used to dream about her in New Guinea.
- Jack Carson: Well, I guess she's been dreamed about clear around the world.
- Jane Wyman: There's a boy over there that says he's going to take on all the Japs in the world for one look at Joan Leslie.
- John Garfield: Slim Green it affords me the greatest of pleasure to present tonight's kiss giver outer. The rest is is your hands.
- Joan Leslie: Hello, Slim.
- Cpl. Slim Green: I didn't know you were quite so beautiful.
- Joan Leslie: I don't know what to say. So, I guess you better kiss me.
- [kiss]
- Joan Leslie: Good luck.
- Cpl. Slim Green: Thanks. I'll never forget.
- The Golden Gate Quartette: [singing] The General had a groovy crew, A million laughs and I'm telling you, There were white men, black men on the beam, A real, solid all-American team, He had tall men, small men, fat and lean, The fightin'est crew that you'd ever seen, Every creed, every color, and every belief, From an Eskimo to an Indian Chief...
- Cpl. Slim Green: Holy smoke, you're Mrs. Skeffington, I mean, Bette Davis, aren't you? I saw you on the hospital ship before you were even released on the mainland. I mean, the picture. And that's one of the advantages we have over you civilians. We see the newest pictures before you do.
- Ida Lupino: Good evening, Sergeant. First night at the Canteen?
- Sgt. Nowland: Yes, ma'am.
- Ida Lupino: Well, can I show you the ropes?
- Sgt. Nowland: Miss Lupino, you may show me anything your lovely heart desires.
- S.Z. Sakall: You are looking for somebody.
- Cpl. Slim Green: I sure am.
- S.Z. Sakall: I think you mean what I know. I was in the last War. I remember. A weekend pass. A pretty girl. A little music.
- Roy Rogers: Trigger seems to like the ladies in here. How 'bout throwin' them a kiss Trigger? Will you give me a kiss? How 'bout me? Oh, just one? Just give me one kiss. Come on.
- [kiss]
- Roy Rogers: Doggone, he sure kisses juicy.
- Roy Rogers: [singing] Oh, give me land, lots of land under starry skies above, Don't fence me in, Let me ride through the wide open country that I love, Don't fence me in, Let me be by myself in the evenin' breeze, Listen to the murmur of the cottonwood trees, Send me off forever but I ask you please, Don't fence me in. Just turn me loose, let me straddle my old saddle...
- John Garfield: You know, it's all to rarely, in these hectic times, that a man has his dreams fulfilled.
- Patty Andrews, Laverne Andrews, Maxene Andrews: [singing] When we think we can't go on, We find we can't get enough, So, if you hear of a soldier, sailor, or marine, Tell 'em to look us up, at the Hollywood Canteen...
- Patty Andrews, Laverne Andrews, Maxene Andrews: [singing] We're not petite as sweet Joan Leslie, But then we never mind, When those GIs knock us out, We're glad that we're the healthy kind...
- Patty Andrews: [singing] At the Hollywood Canteen, The hardest working Junior Hostess you've ever seen, I'm doin' my bit down here for Uncle Sam, I'm a patriotic jitterbug, yeah, yeah, that's what I am...
- Joe E. Brown: [singing] You can tell a Yank, By the way he eats a frank, By the way he fights for the Bill of Rights, And the right to love a girl in tights...
- Dennis Morgan: [singing] You can always tell a Yank, By the way he drives a tank, To defend a thing called democracy, And save the world from tyranny...
- Studio Guide: I give so much of myself to art, there would be so little left for you.
- Sgt. Nowland: A *crumb* - would be a banquet.
- Studio Guide: I'll be all tied up with Humphrey Bogart - all day. We're testing.
- Sgt. Nowland: You passed my test the moment I laid my orbs on you.
- Studio Guide: Would you settle for a dance?
- Sgt. Nowland: Would a starving man settle for beef steak?
- Sgt. Nowland: Anybody ever tell you you look like Joan Crawford?
- Joan Crawford: Why yes, my husband has.
- Sgt. Nowland: Mmm, you dance good. Light as a feather.
- Joan Crawford: Thank you.
- Sgt. Nowland: You know you're a dead ringer for Joan Crawford.
- Joan Crawford: Am I really?
- [moves in closer, dancing cheek to cheek]
- Joan Crawford: Don't look now, but, I *am* Joan Crawford.
- Sgt. Nowland: My life to this moment has been a total loss because I ain't seen your beautiful puss in pictures.
- Sgt. Nowland: Slim, when we was mildewing in the jungle, I kinda resented these Canteens and the guys that were lucky enough to here instead of there. I don't resent it no more. And I used to figure that Hollywood was a place with all false fronts. Nothin' false about them we seen tonight. Gorgeous.
- Sgt. Nowland: I don't want to get sloppy about this; but, it kinda got me. All them famous people being friendly and democratic. Democratic. Democracy - that's what it means, Slim. Everybody equal like tonight. All them big shots - listening to little shots like me. And bein' friendly.
- Sgt. Nowland: I don't send my girlfriends no flowers. I always say a good smack on the kisser pays off more.
- Cpl. Slim Green: I could have a date with Joan Leslie?
- Bette Davis: What do you say, Joan?
- Joan Leslie: I'm flattered and honored to be chosen, Slim. I'll try to show you a good time.
- Cpl. Slim Green: Golly.
- Sgt. Nowland: How do you on your test with Humphery Bogart, beautiful?
- Studio Guide: Oh, they're crazy about me. Mr. Bogart said he never got so much *give* from anybody?
- Sgt. Nowland: What's "give"?
- Studio Guide: Well, it's how you look at someone when somebody says something to somebody - about something.
- Sgt. Nowland: I know what you mean. You got more give than I ever *got*.
- Jimmy Dorsey: Joanie, how 'bout singing a chorus with the band?
- Joan Leslie: All right, Jimmy.
- [to Slim]
- Joan Leslie: Do you mind?
- Cpl. Slim Green: I'd love it!
- Joan Leslie: [singing] Good night, Sweet dreams, Tomorrow's another day, 'Til then, Sweet dreams, Sweetheart, Good night, Sleep tight, I'll see you along the way, In dreams, Sweet dreams, Sweetheart...
- Studio Guide: What would you like to see next?
- Sgt. Nowland: Beautiful women.
- Studio Guide: Follow me.
- Cpl. Slim Green: It's all right to keep on dreaming about you?
- Joan Leslie: Oh, please. And me too, you.
- Cpl. Slim Green: I happen to be number one million; but, I just represent every fellow who's ever come here. Gosh, I might have been a soldier, a flyer, or a sailor of the British Commonwealth of Nations, or, a Chinese air cadet here to learn to fly. I might have been one of our good friends from Russia or one of our own colored boys. I might have come from the Philippines across the Pacific or from down under from New Zealand or Australia, or maybe been a Free Frenchman. I might have been one of the boys from South America or from our next door neighbor, Mexico. Or, maybe escaped from Norway or the Netherlands or Denmark or Greece or Poland or Czechoslovakia or any of the countries. I might have been wearing kilts like a Scotsman; but, believe me, if I was, you could see my knees shaking right now. So, I was all you fellas rolled up into one when they made this short leave in Hollywood into some kind of a paradise for me. We've seen people we've dreamed of, up close. So, we found them all as real as they are famous. They wait on us. They wash our dishes. They actually come up here every night to make us laugh or - even choke up a little. Whatever they do they make us forget for awhile where we've been - or where we're going. Still, I think we'll remember longest that most of us arrived here lonely. But, after coming to the Canteen we weren't lonely any more.
- [last lines]
- Bette Davis: You've given us something *we'll* never forget. Wherever you go, our hearts go with you.