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Judy Garland, Mickey Rooney, Sara Haden, Fay Holden, Cecilia Parker, and Lewis Stone in Andy Hardy Meets Debutante (1940)

Quotes

Andy Hardy Meets Debutante

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  • Judge James K. 'Jim' Hardy: When a boy's stupid... he's just stupid, that's all.
  • Doorman: Good afternoon, Miss Booth! Lovely day isn't it?
  • Betsy Booth: Kid stuff.
  • Elevator Boy: Good afternoon, Miss Booth! How are you today?
  • Betsy Booth: I'll never know.
  • Betsy's Maid: Good afternoon! There's some mail on the drawing room table.
  • Betsy Booth: Very interesting
  • [sigh]
  • Betsy Booth: for tourists.
  • Betsy's Butler: Good aftenoon, Miss! Will there be anyone for dinner, Miss Booth?
  • Betsy Booth: I expect to live and die a bachelor.
  • Betsy Booth: Well, let's go on inside. Maybe the coffins will cheer you up.
  • Andrew 'Andy' Hardy: It's a fine world. Back in Carvel there are people waiting to laugh at my funeral. Here in New York they've got coffins to cheer me up.
  • Betsy Booth: Now don't you feel glad just to be alive?
  • Andrew 'Andy' Hardy: I've never before really appreciated the advantage of being dead.
  • Francis aka Butch: You said a mouthful, toots!
  • Betsy Booth: Whenever I get disillusioned, I always get a pain in my stomach.
  • Judge James K. 'Jim' Hardy: Betsy's a New Yorker, so of course she carries a gat.
  • Andrew 'Andy' Hardy: We're not hillbillies. We wear shoes everyday.
  • Andrew 'Andy' Hardy: [In reference to Ulysses S. Grant] He didn't have trouble like I got, all he had on his hands was a civil war.
  • Andrew 'Andy' Hardy: New York's a sink of... well... well, it's a sink! I won't be safe there!
  • Andrew 'Andy' Hardy: What has New York got that Carvel hasn't? Just a lot of tall buildings. And what do people do when they get in tall buildings? They jump out of windows, that's what they do. I tell you New York is a den of evil!
  • Andrew 'Andy' Hardy: A guy's world comes crashing down around his shoulders and you offer him corn beef and cabbage!
  • Betsy Booth: Why are some men so dumb?

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