- Girl at USO: I hear you got a raise.
- Kansus Jackson: Yeah
- Girl at USO: What are you going to spend it on?
- Kansus Jackson: Oh, beer, women and the rest on foolishness.
- Steve Boleslavski: Sighted schooners, sank same.
- [Said after confiscating two tallboy beer cans in the engine room]
- Steve Boleslavski: [Boleslavski confrontation with Donohue on deck] Why I've wrung more seawater out of my socks than you've sailed over!
- Japanese Sonar Man: [in Japanese] Nothing there.
- Japanese Submarine Commander: [in Japanese] The sound will stop.
- Mickey Donohue: [uttered very scornfully, to Chief Boleslavski] You don't look like a "destroyer man" to me... you're a "metal man" -- silver in your hair, gold in your teeth, and lead in your feet! Why don't you go back on the beach where you belong?