- Dr. Frank Morgan: Just checking your pulse. Hmmm... very irregular. Rapid, too!
- Lucille Ball: You have your fingers on my wristwatch.
- Kathryn Jones: [singing] Sunrise, how lovely it seems, To see from my window a sky full of dreams, As the white clouds sail on through blue, At daybreak, I daydream of you...
- Kathryn Jones: My father was handsome.
- Hyllary Jones: Always. Brave, handsome, courteous, all the manly virtues. It was very dull.
- Kathryn Jones: Are you ashamed?
- Pvt. Eddie Marsh: Oh, enough, I guess. I just don't want you to think that I kissed you because...
- Kathryn Jones: I don't think that. I don't think that at all.
- Pvt. Eddie Marsh: Are you sure?
- Kathryn Jones: It wasn't that kind of kiss. It was this kind.
- [kiss]
- Kathryn Jones: I would follow you to the ends of the earth.
- Pvt. Eddie Marsh: But, you can't. This train is for soldiers!
- Kathryn Jones: Just don't tell anybody I'm here.
- Kathryn Jones: [singing] To Tom, To Dick, And Harry, In the Army, In the Navy, And Marines, To Tom! To Dick! To Harry!
- Col. Bill Jones: The thing about you that I've admired most, Kathryn, is your ability to - to be friendly with all the men. Not showing favoritism.
- Kathryn Jones: Dad, some of them need more help than others.
- Chuck Polansky, Sgt. Koslack, Alan: [singing] I dug a ditch, I dug a ditch, And struck it rich, In Wichita, Yippee-Yi-Yo, Yipee-Yi-Yay...
- Pvt. Eddie Marsh: Just because I kissed you doesn't mean you have to follow me!
- Kathryn Jones: It doesn't?
- Pvt. Eddie Marsh: No. I kiss a lot of girls. That don't mean a thing.
- Kathryn Jones: Oh, but it does! It means everything. It means we're in engaged!
- Kathryn Jones: Oh, Dad, don't worry so much.
- Col. Bill Jones: But your mother, she'll...
- Kathryn Jones: My mother was wrong. I'd share you with the USA anytime and Eddie too.
- Col. Bill Jones: You're more trouble than a regiment.
- Kathryn Jones: We'll make a fine soldier out of him, won't we?
- [Eskimo kiss]
- Kathryn Jones: Paddy Waddy.
- Mickey Rooney - Emcee at the Show: Three of the most exquisite girls in Hollywood: Ann Sothern - yum, Lucille Ball - yum yum, Marsha Hunt - mmm, yummy!
- Mickey Rooney - Emcee at the Show: Believe me, in back of this curtain is more talent than you've ever seen in your life - just waiting to come out and turn it on.
- Mickey Rooney - Emcee at the Show: I'd like you to meet a girl who's really tops in taps. A girl who knows her 3 Bs: Ballet, Buck and Boogie Woogie.
- Virginia O'Brien: [singing] In a little Spanish town it was on a night like this, Stars were peek-a-booing down, It was on a night like this, I whispered be true to me and he sighed sí sí...
- Dr. Frank Morgan: Come a little closer, my dear. So, you want to join the Navy too, eh?
- Marsha Hunt: I place myself entirely in your hands, doctor.
- Dr. Frank Morgan: Oh, well I wouldn't do that - I mean, they'd put me in irons. I mean, I'm not here to advise you, just to examine you. What are your qualifications?
- Marsha Hunt: I like sailors.
- Dr. Frank Morgan: Well, ship ahoy!
- Dr. Conte in Frank Morgan Skit: You're a doctor too?
- Dr. Frank Morgan: My dear boy, it's not at all uncommon for me to give a man a shave, a haircut, and a facial massage and end up by removing his appendix.
- Dr. Conte in Frank Morgan Skit: Oh, then you don't make your living as a barber?
- Dr. Frank Morgan: Oh, yes!
- Dr. Conte in Frank Morgan Skit: Well what about those appendix operations?
- Dr. Frank Morgan: Well, I just do those on the side.
- Lucille Ball: Is anything wrong, doctor? You know, I'm worried about my chest.
- Dr. Frank Morgan: Oh, you have nothing to worry about.
- Dr. Frank Morgan: Well, you better go into the dressing room and the nurse will prepare you for the examination.
- Lucille Ball: Doctor, if I pass, I'll be the happiest girl in the world. You know, two doctors have already turned me down.
- Dr. Frank Morgan: Oh, the cads! Well, don't you worry, my pet, if the Navy doesn't want you, I do.
- Ann Sothern: I've always wanted to serve in the Navy. I'm told I have wonderful sea legs.
- Dr. Frank Morgan: Oh, yes! I mean, I think perhaps you better go to the dressing room now and the nurse will prepare you for examination.
- Dr. Frank Morgan: How tall are you?
- Marsha Hunt: Five feet six.
- Dr. Frank Morgan: Weight?
- Marsha Hunt: One hundred seventeen. Stripped, of course.
- Dr. Frank Morgan: Oh, of course. Waist?
- Marsha Hunt: Twenty-three.
- Dr. Frank Morgan: Hips?
- Marsha Hunt: Thirty-three.
- Dr. Frank Morgan: Neck?
- Marsha Hunt: Sometimes.
- Dr. Frank Morgan: Do you know what's in that room? Three of the most lushest, beautiful specimens of femininity that's ever been my good fortune to lay my eyes on.
- Kay Kyser: If you like to look at pretty gals - and who doesn't - then get on the beam with this bevy of beautiful ballerinas.
- Mickey Rooney - Emcee at the Show: And now I'd like to present to you all a grand artist. Perhaps you remember her as Miss Georgia Brown in "Cabin in the Sky". The one and only, Lena Horne - with Benny Carter and his band.
- Lena Horne: [Benny plays, Lena sings] Every honeybee, Sighs with jealousy, When they see you out with me, I don't blame them, goodness knows, Honeysuckle rose...
- Col. Bill Jones: I'm afraid it's time.
- Hyllary Jones: It's familiar territory, Bill. Our life seems to be made up of farewell scenes.
- Mickey Rooney - Emcee at the Show: And now you're going to hear José Iturbi playing the piano - as only he can play it. And with him is a young lady. A young lady I've been dying to meet for a long time. She's so cute and sweet. Oh, boy, can she sing a song! Her name is Judy Garland!
- Judy Garland: [singing] Perhaps it was something that hit me, perhaps it was something I ate, But out of the blue I dreamed I met you, And you said to me, "Hi ya, Gate", Millions have heard you play Chopin, The critics applaud and approve, But millions more would simply adore, To hear you get in the groove, To hear you get in the groove, I said to hear you get in the groove...
- Red Skelton: Look, you girls will have to put on some clothes. You're making me feel like a peeping Tom.
- Judy Garland: [singing] They're playing, Ta-tlee-a-ti, ta-tlee-a-ti, with Shostakovich, Ta-tlee-a-ti, ta-tlee-a-ti, Mozart and Bach, Ta-tlee-a-ti, ta-tlee-a-ti, And they don't know which, 'Cause anything can happen when they start to rock!
- Red Skelton: Where have you been keeping yourself?
- Customer in Red Skelton Skit: Oh, here and there.
- Red Skelton: Oh. Are you working?
- Customer in Red Skelton Skit: Now and then.
- Red Skelton: Oh. What do you do?
- Customer in Red Skelton Skit: Oh, this and that.
- Kathryn Jones: [singing] Make way for that day called tomorrow, Make way for a world that is new, Fight on for that dawn of tomorrow, Together we'll all see it through, United Nations on the march, With flags unfurled, Together fight for Victory, A free new world...