Singin in the Rain Quotes

Cosmo Brown: You have to show a movie at a party. It's a Hollywood law.

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Don Lockwood: Now listen, R.F., the owner of the Coconut Grove may do what Lina tells him to, but you're the head of this studio.
R.F. Simpson: That's right, I'm the head of this studio. She's hired! But don't let Lina know she's on the lot.

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Lina Lamont: What do they think I am? Dumb or something? Why, I make more money than - than - than Calvin Coolidge! Put together!

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Rosco: [after a take] We're really rolling, Mr. Simpson.
R.F. Simpson: Well, you can stop rolling at once.
Rosco: What?
R.F. Simpson: Don, Lina.
Rosco: Ok, everybody save it!
R.F. Simpson: Save it? Tell them to go home. We're shutting down for a few weeks.
Rosco: What?
R.F. Simpson: Well, don't just stand there. Tell them!
Rosco: Everybody go until further notice! What is it?

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[after Cosmo's car breaks down]
Don Lockwood: Don't tell me, it's a flat tire.
Cosmo Brown: I can't undertand it. This car hasn't given me a lick of trouble in nearly 6 hours.

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[after Lina gets a pie thrown in her face]
Cosmo Brown: Lina, You've never looked lovelier.

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[ Don's about to start shooting a new movie ]
Cosmo Brown : What's this one about?
Don Lockwood : It's a French revolution story...
Cosmo Brown : Don't tell me. You're a French aristocrat, she's a simple girl of the people, and she won't even give you a tumbrel. Hah!

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[ after filming a love scene ]
Lina : Oh Donny! You couldn't kiss me like that and not mean it just a teensy bit!
Don Lockwood : Meet the greatest actor in the world! I'd rather kiss a tarantula.
Lina : You don't mean that.
Don Lockwood : I don't - - Hey Joe, get me a tarantula.

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R.F. Simpson : Don, it'll be a sensation! "Lamont and Lockwood: they talk!"
Lina : [ with a voice to peel paint ] Well of *course* we talk. Don't everybody?

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Lina : What's wrong with the way I talk? What's the big idea? Am I dumb or something?

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Don Lockwood : Now listen, R.F., the owner of the Coconut Grove may do what Lina tells him to, but you're the head of this studio.
R.F. Simpson : That's right, I'm the head of this studio. She's hired! But don't let Lina know she's on the lot.

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Lina Lamont : Gee, this wig weighs a ton! What dope'd wear a thing like this?
Rosco : Everybody used to wear them, Lina.
Lina Lamont : Well, then everybody was a dope.

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Cosmo Brown : The new Don Lockwood. He yodels, he jumps around to music.
Don Lockwood : The only problem is once they release this movie, no-one's gonna want to see me jump off the Woolworth building into a damp rag.

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Don Lockwood : [ while filming a love scene ] Why, you rattlesnake! You got that poor kid fired.
Lina Lamont : That's not all I'm gonna do if I ever get my hands on her.
Don Lockwood : I never heard of anything so low. Why did you do it?
Lina Lamont : Because you liked her. I could tell.
Don Lockwood : So that's it. Believe me, I don't like her half as much as I hate you, you reptile.
Lina Lamont : Sticks and stones may break my bones...
Don Lockwood : I'd like to break every bone in your body.
Lina Lamont : You and who else, you big lummox?

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Don Lockwood : I do hope you're going to favor us with something special tonight.
Kathy Selden : Please!
Don Lockwood : Say, Hamlet's soliloquy, or the balcony scene from "Romeo and Juliet."
Kathy Selden : Mr. Lockwood!
Don Lockwood : Don't be shy. You'd make about the prettiest Juliet I've ever seen. Really.

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Kathy : Are you sure it's all right? Being seen with me?
Don Lockwood : You mean lofty star with humble player?
Kathy : Not exactly, but for lunch don't you usually tear a pheasant with Miss Lamont?
Don Lockwood : Kathy, all the stories about Lina and me are sheer publicity.
Kathy : Oh? It certainly seems more than that. From all those columns in the newspapers and articles in the fan magazines...
Don Lockwood : You read the fan magazines?
Kathy : I pick them up at the beauty parlor or the dentist's office, just like anybody.
Don Lockwood : Really?
Kathy : Well... I buy four or five a month.
Don Lockwood : Four or five...
Kathy : But anyway, to get back to the point, you and Miss Lamont do achieve a certain intimacy in all your pictures...
Don Lockwood : Did you say *all* our pictures?
Kathy : I guess if I think about it I've seen eight or nine of them.
Don Lockwood : You know I remember someone saying, "If you've seen one you've seen 'em all".
Kathy : I said some awful things that night, didn't I?
Don Lockwood : No. I deserved them. But I must admit I was hurt by them. So hurt in fact that I haven't been able to think about anything but you ever since.

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The Coconut Grove Girls : [ singing ] All I do is dream of you the whole night through; with the dawn I still go on, dreaming of you. You're every thought, you're everything, you're every song I ever sing; summer, winter, autumn and spring. And were there more than twenty four hours a day; they'd be spent in sweet content dreaming away; when skies are grey, when skies are blue; morning, noon and night time too; all I do the whole day through is dream of you.

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Cosmo Brown : Why bother to shoot this film? Why not release the old one under a new title? You've seen one, you've seen them all.
Don Lockwood : Hey, what'd you say that for?
Cosmo Brown : What's the matter?
Don Lockwood : That's what that Kathy Selden said to me that night.
Cosmo Brown : That's three weeks ago, you still thinking about that?
Don Lockwood : I can't get her out of my mind.
Cosmo Brown : How could you - she's the first dame who hasn't fallen for your line since you were four.

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Don Lockwood : Where'd Miss Selden go?
Female dancer : She just grabbed her things and bolted. Anything I can do?
Don Lockwood : Sorry, I don't have time to find out.

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Don Lockwood : Which of my pictures have you seen?
Kathy : I don't remember. I saw one once.
Don Lockwood : You saw one once?
Kathy : Yes, I think you were dueling and there was a girl - Lina Lamont. But I don't go to the movies much. If you've seen one you've seen them all.
Don Lockwood : Thank you.
Kathy : Oh, no offense. Movies are entertaining enough for the masses but the personalities on the screen just don't impress me. I mean they don't talk, they don't act, the just make a lot of dumb show. Well, you know [ demonstrates ]
Kathy : like that.
Don Lockwood : You mean like what I do?
Kathy : Well, yes!

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Don Lockwood : I'm no actor. I never was. Just a bunch of dumb show. I know that now.
Cosmo Brown : Well, at least you're taking it lying down.
Don Lockwood : No. No kidding, Cosmo. Did you ever see anything as ridiculous as me on that screen tonight?
Kathy : Yeah, how about Lina?
Don Lockwood : All right. I ran her a close second. Maybe it was a photo finish. I'm through, fellas.
Kathy : Don, you're not through!
Cosmo Brown : Why of course not. Why, with your looks and figure, you could drive an ice wagon or shine shoes!
Kathy : Block hats!
Cosmo Brown : Sell pencils!
Kathy : Dig ditches!
Cosmo Brown : Or worse still, go back to vaudeville.

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Kathy : [ picks up a cake ] Here's one thing I learned from the movies! [ Throws it at Don but hits Lina ]

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Cosmo Brown : Lina. She can't act, she can't sing, she can't dance. A triple threat.

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Don Lockwood : Cosmo, call me a cab.
Cosmo Brown : OK, you're a cab.

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Cosmo Brown : Talking pictures, that means I'm out of a job. At last I can start suffering and write that symphony.
R.F. Simpson : You're not out of job, we're putting you in as head of our new music department.
Cosmo Brown : Oh, thanks, R.F.! At last I can stop suffering and write that symphony.

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Lina Lamont : What do they think I am? Dumb or something? Why, I make more money than - than - than Calvin Coolidge! Put together!

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Cosmo Brown : Make 'em laugh!

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Lina Lamont : "People"? I ain't "people." I am a - "a shimmering, glowing star in the cinema firmament." [ picks up newspaper ]
Lina Lamont : It says so - right here.

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Lina Lamont : If we bring a little joy into your humdrum lives, it makes us feel as though our hard work ain't been in vain for nothin'. Bless you all.

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Kathy Selden : Now look, Miss Lamont, Don and I...
Lina Lamont : Don? Don't you *dare* call him Don! I was calling him Don before you were born! I mean... You-you were kissing him!
Don Lockwood : *I* was kissing *her*! I happen to be in love with her.
Lina Lamont : That's ridiculous. Everybody knows you're in love with me.

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