I'm a great believer in science.
Reminds me of a slaughterhouse I once worked in in Chicago. Those Nazi buzzards — a tin fish ain't enough. They've got to shell us too!
Connie Porter
Tallulah Bankhead · 5 quotes
Gus Smith
William Bendix · 3 quotes
John Kovac
John Hodiak · 3 quotes
Charles D. 'Ritt' Rittenhouse
Henry Hull · 2 quotes
Willy
2 quotes
Most scenes together: Connie Porter & John Kovac (2), Gus Smith & John Kovac (2)
Lifeboat quotes
Neither can a snake help being a rattlesnake if he's born a rattlesnake! That don't make him a nightingale! Get him out of here!
As of now I'm skipper, and anybody who don't like it can get out and swim to Bermuda. What about that?
I'll buy it.
Stanley 'Sparks' Garrett Suits me. What about you, Miss?
Alice MacKenzie I'm for it.
George 'Joe' Spencer Yes, sir!
Well, if the rest agree.
All right, Commissar, what's the course?
I wish they were.
They're really nothing but a few pieces of carbon crystallized under high pressure at great heat.
Quite so, if you want to be scientific about it.
I'm a great believer in science.
Like tears, for instance. They're nothing but H2O with a trace of sodium chloride.
[seeing a bejewelled Connie in a fur coat as he enters the lifeboat]
Connie! Did you come from the freighter or the Stork Club?
Dying together's even more personal than living together.
My name is Schmidt, but I changed it to Smith. That's what I got against these guys more than anything else. They make me ashamed of the name I was born with. I got a lot of relatives in Germany. For all I know this guy may be one of them. I say throw him to the sharks!
We're not like you! You're made of iron, we're just flesh and blood! Hungry and thirsty flesh and blood!