Gunny Saks Quotes in Born to Dance (1936)

Jenny Saks: Gunny, Sally is our child.

Gunny Saks: That's a fine time for telling me.

Jenny Saks: Why?

Gunny Saks: I've joined the the Navy again

Jenny Saks: I'll see you in four years.

Gunny Saks: But Jenny, I'm your husband.

Jenny Saks: Don't remind me.

Gunny Saks: I will never join the Navy again, even if they make me a general.

"Mush" Tracy: Have you ever seen a general in the Navy?

Gunny Saks: No, 'cause they're smart.

"Mush" Tracy: What'd you join the Navy for in the first place?

Gunny Saks: On account of a woman - my wife. Two days after we were married she told me I wasn't a man of the world. So I joined the Navy.

Captain Dingby: I want this message delivered to Rear Admiral Stubbins of the Brooklyn Navy Yard.

Gunny Saks: Yes, sir.

Captain Dingby: I understand you were born in Brooklyn.

Gunny Saks: Yes, sir.

Captain Dingby: What part?

Gunny Saks: All of me!

Gunny Saks: Do you realize that marriage is a national institution and that 50% of the married people are women?

Gunny Saks: Say, who's little girl are you?

Sally Saks: Mommy's girl.