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Quotes from Damn Yankees (1958)

19 quotes
Gwen Verdon
Lola: I took the zing out of the King of Siam. / I took the starch out of the sails of the Prince of Wales. / It's no great art gettin' the heart of a man on a silver platter. / A little brains, a little talent with an emphasis on the latter!
- Gwen Verdon (as Lola) in Damn Yankees (1958)

Gwen Verdon
Lola: Joe, would you like to take Lola some place tonight?
Joe Hardy: Gee, I - I sure would like to but, uh, you know what Mr. Van Buren would say.
Lola: He'd say you lucky boy.
Joe Hardy: No, no! He'd say it's late. He likes us to get to bed early.
Lola: Any particular place?
- Gwen Verdon (as Lola) in Damn Yankees (1958)

Gwen Verdon
Lola: Whatever Lola wants, Lola gets / And little man, little Lola wants you!
- Gwen Verdon (as Lola) in Damn Yankees (1958)

Tab Hunter
Joe Boyd: One long ball hitter, that's what we need! I'd sell my soul for one long ball hitter.
- Tab Hunter (as Joe Hardy) in Damn Yankees (1958)

Ray Walston
Joe Boyd: What happens after I stop being a baseball player? Then where would I be?
Mr. Applegate: [laughs] Well now, of course that's fairly well known.
Joe Boyd: Yes, but I have...
Mr. Applegate: After all, there's nothing unusual about it. How do you suppose some of these politicians around town got started? And parking lot owners?
- Ray Walston (as Mr. Applegate) in Damn Yankees (1958)

Rae Allen
Reporter: Do you think Washington will win the pennant?
Gloria Thorpe: Yeah, when I swim the Channel.
- Rae Allen (as Gloria Thorpe) in Damn Yankees (1958)

Ray Walston
Mr. Applegate: [to Gloria Thorpe] Oh, don't be so nosey, huh? Go home. Get married. Have children!
- Ray Walston (as Mr. Applegate) in Damn Yankees (1958)

Ray Walston
Mr. Applegate: Going a little far don't you think?
Lola: What's the matter? Didn't ya like it?
Mr. Applegate: I like it fine. Puff him up baby, I'll bring him down again.
Lola: You'll what?
Mr. Applegate: It's already started. Keep your eyes open, homewrecker. You'll find out who's got the pain in the mambo.
- Ray Walston (as Mr. Applegate) in Damn Yankees (1958)

Gwen Verdon
Mr. Applegate: Have a nice trip?
Lola: Perfect. The plane crashed in Cleveland.
Mr. Applegate: Good. Now about that job in Chicago.
Lola: Just dandy. I got the old boy to embezzle 100,000 dollars and lost it for him at the race track. Then his wife left him and he took to drink. I told him I was through and he jumped out the window... twenty second story.
Mr. Applegate: That's high enough, that's fine.
Lola: I wanna try the Empire State Building on this next one.
- Gwen Verdon (as Lola) in Damn Yankees (1958)

Gwen Verdon
Mr. Applegate: I see it all now! Ya doped me. But why? Why?
Lola: Because I love him!
- Gwen Verdon (as Lola) in Damn Yankees (1958)