The Kid from Brooklyn (1946)

Walter Abel: Gabby Sloan

Quotes 

• Burleigh Sullivan : Do you mind if I sit down, Mr. .. uh?

  Gabby Sloan : Sloan. Sloan.

  Burleigh Sullivan : Sloan Sloan?

  Gabby Sloan : Gabby Sloan. Go on, sit down, anything you want.

• Gabby Sloan : There is a killer in you, but you're all confused. It's the killer in you who doesn't wanna fight.

  Burleigh Sullivan : He doesn't?

  Gabby Sloan : Of course not. This a different kind of fight. This is for charity. If you fight, thousands of babies get milk, don't they?

  Burleigh Sullivan : Yeah.

  Gabby Sloan : Yeah, the killer - the bad side, wants to deprive those tiny toddling tots of the only thing that'll keep them alive.

  Burleigh Sullivan : What's that?

  Gabby Sloan : Milk! The killer doesn't want the babies to have milk.

• Gabby Sloan : [On the telephone]  Now look here, Willard. I told ya I'd give you a statement in ten minutes, didn't I? Well, I always keep my word.

  Voice on the phone : [Voice heard on the phone]  You've never kept your word in your life, and you know it.

• Burleigh Sullivan : You see, Gabby, I'm two different people.

  Ann Westley : Why don't you sign for both of you?

  Gabby Sloan : Shut up now. Shut up with those cracks. You're making the Spider nervous.

  Burleigh Sullivan : The Tiger

  Gabby Sloan : The Tiger, yeah yeah, yeah.

• Gabby Sloan : The killer wants to see babies starve. But the good you wants babies to have milk. Now, you're not gonna let that Tiger hold ya, are you?

  Burleigh Sullivan : No!

• Gabby Sloan : Now, Burleigh, I want you to imagine that I'm your father.

  Burleigh Sullivan : Why?

  Gabby Sloan : Never mind! Now, I've got a lot laid up in this fight.

• Gabby Sloan : [Looking at pictures on Burleigh's wall]  You know, Burleigh, I'd swear that that was my mother

  Burleigh Sullivan : Maybe it is your mother. It was here when we moved in.

  Burleigh Sullivan : [Pointing to the next picture]  Maybe that's your father. He was here too.

  Ann Westley : No, they hung Gabby's father differently.

• Gabby Sloan : Come outside and let's get a little air.

  Burleigh Sullivan : We are outside.

  Gabby Sloan : Don't change the subject.

• Gabby Sloan : There's only one thing in the world that women want - that's money. Now, you take Ann...

  Ann Westley : Oh, I'm president of the union.

• Spider Schultz : Hands as big as watermelons.

  Ann Westley : How does he wind his watch?

  Spider Schultz : I don't know, but Speed looked like a very small midget beside him.

  Speed McFarlane : I had to jump up in the air to hit him.

  Gabby Sloan : Wait a minute! Wait a minute! That's an angle. That's our out - Middleweight knocked out by heavyweight.