Quotes from Some Like It Hot (1959)

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Marilyn Monroe
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.
- Marilyn Monroe (as Sugar Kane Kowalczyk) in Some Like It Hot (1959)

Marilyn Monroe
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.
- Marilyn Monroe (as Sugar Kane Kowalczyk) in Some Like It Hot (1959)

Tony Curtis
Sugar: [admiring a large fish trophy] What is it?
Junior (Joe): 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 (Joe): They shrink when they're marinated.
- Tony Curtis (as Joe/Josephine) in Some Like It Hot (1959)

Tony Curtis
Sugar: [on the yacht Junior's pretending he owns] Which is the port and which is the starboard?
Junior (Joe): 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.
- Tony Curtis (as Joe/Josephine) in Some Like It Hot (1959)

Jack Lemmon
Sugar: Believe it or not, Josephine predicted the whole thing.
Daphne: Yeah, this is one for Ripley.
- Jack Lemmon (as Jerry/Daphne) in Some Like It Hot (1959)

Marilyn Monroe
Sugar: I come from this musical family. My mother is a piano teacher and my father was a conductor.
Josephine: Where did he conduct?
Sugar: On the Baltimore and Ohio.
- Marilyn Monroe (as Sugar Kane Kowalczyk) in Some Like It Hot (1959)

Tony Curtis
Sugar: If my mother could only see me now.
Josephine (Joe): I hope my mother never finds out.
- Tony Curtis (as Joe/Josephine) in Some Like It Hot (1959)

Marilyn Monroe
Sugar: It's me, Sugar!
- Marilyn Monroe (as Sugar Kane Kowalczyk) in Some Like It Hot (1959)

Jack Lemmon
Sugar: Oh Josephine! The most wonderful thing happened!
Josephine: What?
Sugar: Guess.
Josephine: They repealed prohibition?
Daphne: Oh come now, you can do better than that.
- Jack Lemmon (as Jerry/Daphne) in Some Like It Hot (1959)

Jack Lemmon
Sugar: Oh, Daphne, how can I ever repay you?
Daphne: Oh, I can think of a million things.
[Sugar gets into bed with him]
Daphne: And that's one of them!
- Jack Lemmon (as Jerry/Daphne) in Some Like It Hot (1959)

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