Some Like It Hot Quotes

Jerry : We're up the creek and you want to hock the paddle!

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Toothpick Charlie : Look, chief, I better blow 'cause if Columbo sees me, it's gonna be "Goodbye Charlie!"
Mulligan : Goodbye, Charlie.

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Jerry : [ Joe used a "Cary Grant" voice when posing as a millionaire ] What are you trying to do to that poor girl, putting on a millionaire act? And, where did you get that phony accent? Nobody "talks loike thet"!

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Osgood : You must be quite a girl.
Daphne : Wanna bet?

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Mulligan : You better bring a check in case the joint is raided.
Waiter : Who's gonna raid a funeral?
Mulligan : Some people got no respect for the dead.

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Mulligan : What happened here?
Little Bonaparte : [ referring to Spats and his thugs ] There was something in that cake that didn't agree with them.
Mulligan : My compliments to the chef. Nobody leaves this room until I get the recipe.
Little Bonaparte : You wanna make a federal case of it?
Mulligan : [ grabs the speaker of Little Bonaparte's hearing aid ] Yeah!

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[ first lines ]
Mulligan : All right, Charlie; that the joint?
Toothpick Charlie : Yes, sir.
Mulligan : Who runs it?
Toothpick Charlie : I already told you.
Mulligan : Refresh my memory.
Toothpick Charlie : Spats Columbo.
Mulligan : That's very refreshing; what's the password?
Toothpick Charlie : "I've come to Grandma's funeral." Here's your admission card. [ he gives Mulligan a mourning armband ]
Mulligan : Thanks, Charlie.
Toothpick Charlie : Now if you want a ringside table, just tell 'em that you're one of the pallbearers.
Mulligan : OK, Charlie.

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Osgood : I am Osgood Fielding the third.
Daphne : I'm Cinderella the second.

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Jerry : Oh, why did I let you talk me into this?
Joe : I thought you weren't speaking to me.

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Joe : [ referring to Jerry ] He has an empty stomach and it's gone to his head.

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Spats Colombo : Hello, copper. What brings you to Miami?
Mulligan : Heard you "opera lovers" were having a convention, so I thought I'd better be around in case anybody decided to sing.

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Spats Colombo : [ when his speakeasy is raided ] What's the rap this time?
Mulligan : Embalming people with coffee - 86 proof.

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Sweet Sue : Are you two from the Poliakoff agency?
Joe : Yes, we're the new girls.
Daphne : Brand new!

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Daphne : [ after meeting the all-girl band they'll be traveling with ] How about that talent, huh? It's like falling into a tub of butter.
Joe : Watch it, Daphne!
Daphne : When I was a kid, Joe, I used to have a dream. I was locked up overnight in a pastry shop, and there was goodies all around. There was jelly rolls, and mocha eclairs, and sponge cake and Boston cream pie...
Joe : Look, Stoop...
Daphne : and cherry tart...
Joe : Stoop, listen to me! No butter, no pastry. We're on a diet!

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Sugar : I come from this musical family. My mother is a piano teacher and my father was a conductor.
Joe : Where did he conduct?
Sugar : On the Baltimore and Ohio.

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Daphne : [ after meeting the dipsomaniac Sugar ] How about the shape of that liquor cabinet?

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Sugar : [ on marrying well ] I don't care how rich he is, as long as he has a yacht, his own private railroad car, and his own toothpaste.

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Osgood : You know, I've always been *fascinated* by show business.
Daphne : Is that so?
Osgood : Yes. As a matter of fact it's cost my family quite a bit of money.
Daphne : Oh, you invest in shows?
Osgood : Showgirls. I've been married seven or eight times.
Daphne : You're not sure?
Osgood : Mama is keeping score.

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Joe : So you got pinched in the elevator, so what? Would you rather be picking lead out of your navel?

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Sugar : [ singing ] I wanna be loved by you, just you, nobody else but you. I wanna be loved by you alo-o-one. Boop boop e doo.

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Sugar : Been waiting long?
Junior : [ gallantly ] It's not how long you wait, it's who you're waiting for!

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Sugar : [ on the yacht Junior's pretending he owns ] Which is the port and which is the starboard?
Junior : Well that depends. That depends on whether you're coming or going. I mean, *normally*, normally, the aft is on the other side of the stern. But - And that's the bridge, so you can get from one side of the boat to the other.

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Sugar : [ admiring a large fish trophy ] What is it?
Junior : It's a member of the herring family.
Sugar : A herring? Isn't it amazing how they get those big fish into those little glass jars?
Junior : They shrink when they're marinated.

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Sugar : Oh Josephine! The most wonderful thing happened!
Joe : What?
Sugar : Guess.
Joe : They repealed prohibition?
Jerry : Oh come now, you can do better than that.
Sugar : I met one of them.
Joe : One of whom?
Sugar : Shell Oil Junior. He's got millions, he's got glasses, he's got a yacht!
Joe : You don't say.
Jerry : He's not only got a yacht, he's got a bicycle!

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Sugar : [ after running back to the room to tell Josephine about the millionaire, Joe's other alter ego, and finding she's not there ] Well I'll be back later.
Jerry : Oh no you wait. I have a feeling she'll show up any minute.
Sugar : Believe it or not, Josephine predicted the whole thing.
Jerry : Yeah, this is one for Ripley.
Sugar : Do you suppose she went shopping?
Jerry : Shopping! That's it! Something tells me she's gonna come through that door in a brand new outfit!

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Sugar : Don't fight it.

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Sugar : It's me, Sugar!

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Joe : We won't breathe a word!
Spats Colombo : You won't breathe nothin' - not even air.

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Spats Colombo : [ to coin-flipping wise guy ] Where did you pick up that cheap trick?

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Mulligan : You shave with your spats on?
Spats Colombo : I sleep with my spats on.

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