One Punch McCoy: [takes the girl's hand] I could eat you.
[then looks up to see her for the first time]
One Punch McCoy: But I'm afraid it would take months and months.

- Hobart Cavanaugh (as One Punch McCoy) in I Cover the Waterfront (1933)

One Punch McCoy: When two men agree, one is superfluous.

- Hobart Cavanaugh (as One Punch McCoy) in I Cover the Waterfront (1933)

Julie Kirk: Men never know what the sea really looks like. Women know. When they've looked out there for years, waitin' for somebody to come back.

- Claudette Colbert (as Julie Kirk) in I Cover the Waterfront (1933)