Danny McGuire Quotes in Cover Girl (1944)

Genius: You know something? I love him too.

Danny McGuire: Yeah?

Genius: You know why?

Danny McGuire: Why?

Genius: Because he's dumber than me.

Danny McGuire: Dumber than I.

Genius: Okay. Then he's dumber than the both of us.

[Danny winces]

Pop - Doorman: Say, maybe if you'd had a horse under ya' over there in North Africa instead of one of them there tanks, you wouldn't have got shot up the way you was and sent home... Where'd it get ya', Danny?

Danny McGuire: In Libya.

Pop - Doorman: Well, it don't show a bit.

Danny McGuire: If I'm sorry nothing came of it, I'm a liar. If I'm glad, I'm a heel. Where do we go from here?

Danny McGuire: [indicates Noel Wheaton] This gentleman has been in the theater a good many years.

[to Wheaton]

Danny McGuire: Now, you've been in my theater a good many years too. Why don't you be a good boy and scram?

Danny McGuire: [Addressing Genius] You're a 'genius' at everything but minding your own business, aren't ya'?

Danny McGuire: The program tonight's gonna be swell. Take this fella Beethoven: I'm a pushover for him. And Chopin - well, he's not so dusty, either.

Danny McGuire: Don't tell anyone, but I'm nervous.

Kira: What about?

Danny McGuire: I haven't had a club opening since... 1945. Wow.

Kira: Then just pretend it's 1945 all over again.

Danny McGuire: [looks fondly at Kira] I don't have to pretend. It *is* 1945 all over again.

Danny McGuire: I've been known to twinkle a toe or two.

Sonny: [Sonny hears a clarinet being played, and goes to investigate, finding Danny McGuire sitting on some rocks] Hey mister, what are you doing up there?

Danny McGuire: Hope you don't mind a little noon-time music, kid. A little lunch time serenade.

Sonny: Oh, I don't mind. It's kinda nice. But I was just wondering where they laid out the body. I mean, you got something a little more upbeat?

Danny McGuire: Sure!

[Plays a short, lively upbeat piece]

Danny McGuire: Better?

Sonny: [chuckles] Well, at least it's faster!

Danny McGuire: [chuckles] Here, gimme a hand kid.

Sonny: Sure.

Danny McGuire: Boy oh boy, they sure don't make rocks like they used to!

Sonny: Want some popcorn?

Danny McGuire: [after Sonny drives off of the edge of the pier] You're a real Errol Flynn, kid... what else do you do?

Danny McGuire: Malone and McGuire, sounds like a Vaudeville act.

Danny McGuire: Kid can you imagine it?

Sonny: Imagine what?

Danny McGuire: A bandstand. Right over there in that corner. And a big band, like in the 40's

Sonny: Nah, nah, nah. Bandstands went out with running boards. Over there. A great rock 'n' roll band. This is the 80's!

Danny McGuire: Real smooth dancers... wild trombone... the band decked out in tuxedos.

Sonny: Six guys wearing electric orange... synthesizer... heavy precussion... electric guitar.

Danny McGuire: Lots of glamour. Everybody dressed in elegance and style.

Danny McGuire: Hey, do you like Glenn Miller?

Sonny: Do you like rock 'n' roll?

Danny McGuire: I love rock 'n' roll.

Sonny: I love Glenn Miller.

Sonny: You ever think about going back into music?

Danny McGuire: Oh, only about 20 or 30 times a day.

Kira: In Xanadu, did Kubla Khan a stately pleasure dome decree...

Danny McGuire: "Where Alph, the sacred river, ran through caverns measureless to man, down to a sunless sea." Yes, Xanadu.

Kira: I'm Kira.

Danny McGuire: Yes, Kira. But...

Kira: But?

Danny McGuire: Don't I know you?

Kira: I don't think so.

Danny McGuire: Are you sure? Because...

Kira: Because?

Danny McGuire: Never mind.

Danny McGuire: You know, I used to be in the music business, but now I'm what you might call retired. It's a refined name for bum.