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.

- Mickey Rooney (as Andrew 'Andy' Hardy) in Andy Hardy Meets Debutante (1940)

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.

- Mickey Rooney (as Andrew 'Andy' Hardy) in Andy Hardy Meets Debutante (1940)

Betsy Booth: Whenever I get disillusioned, I always get a pain in my stomach.

- Judy Garland (as Betsy Booth) in Andy Hardy Meets Debutante (1940)

Betsy Booth: Why are some men so dumb?

- Judy Garland (as Betsy Booth) in Andy Hardy Meets Debutante (1940)

Judge James K. 'Jim' Hardy: Betsy's a New Yorker, so of course she carries a gat.

- Lewis Stone (as Judge James K. 'Jim' Hardy) in Andy Hardy Meets Debutante (1940)

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.

- Mickey Rooney (as Andrew 'Andy' Hardy) in Andy Hardy Meets Debutante (1940)

Andrew 'Andy' Hardy: We're not hillbillies. We wear shoes everyday.

- Mickey Rooney (as Andrew 'Andy' Hardy) in Andy Hardy Meets Debutante (1940)