Road to Singapore (1940)

Charles Coburn: Joshua Mallon IV

Quotes 

• Ace Lannigan : I need some air.

  Joshua Mallon IV : The night air is bad for you junior, back in the net.

  Ace Lannigan : Yeah, now I know how a salmon feels.

• Joshua Mallon IV : Now look here, Josh, I'd like to sit on a coral reef and play a ukulele myself. But, we are Mallons.

• Joshua Mallon IV : I don't agree with you at all, Gloria. You've tried reasoning with him and got nowhere.

  Gloria Wycott : But there are different degrees of reasoning. Your idea is to jump up and down and hit people with a baseball bat.

• Joshua Mallon IV : You seem to think the world is just some sort of a three-ring circus, and all you've got to do is to run around and have fun!

  Joshua 'Josh' Mallon V : What's wrong with that?

  Joshua Mallon IV : The world won't let you - that's what's wrong with that.

  Joshua 'Josh' Mallon V : You mean the Mallons won't let me.