King: [chanting to Buddha before banquet preparations] Help also Mrs. Anna to keep awake for scientific sewing of dresses, even though she be only a woman and a Christian and therefore unworthy of your interest!
Anna: [greatly offended, rising] Your Majesty!
King: A promise is a promise! Head must not be higher than mine! A promise!

- Yul Brynner (as King Mongkut of Siam) in The King and I (1956)

King: Et cetera, et cetera, et cetera!

- Yul Brynner (as King Mongkut of Siam) in The King and I (1956)

King: I do not remember such words.
Anna: I remember them.
King: I will do remembering!

- Yul Brynner (as King Mongkut of Siam) in The King and I (1956)

King: When I sit, you sit. When I kneel, you kneel. Et cetera, et cetera, et cetera!

- Yul Brynner (as King Mongkut of Siam) in The King and I (1956)

King: You are very difficult woman!

- Yul Brynner (as King Mongkut of Siam) in The King and I (1956)

King: You are very difficult woman!
Anna: Perhaps so, Your Majesty.

- Deborah Kerr (as Anna Leonowens) in The King and I (1956)

King: You will order the finest gold chopsticks.
Anna: Your Majesty, chopsticks? Don't you think knives and forks would be more suitable?
King: I make mistake, the British not scientific enough to know how to use chopsticks.

- Yul Brynner (as King Mongkut of Siam) in The King and I (1956)

King: You will say no more!
Anna: I will say no more, because there is no more to say!

- Deborah Kerr (as Anna Leonowens) in The King and I (1956)

Kralahome: [to Anna] Why are you so blind; have you no eyes to see? King tries impossible task - wishing to be scientific man who know all modern things... He will only tear himself in two, trying to be something he can never be!
Anna: Of course he can never be, if those who are closest to him are unwilling to help him!
Kralahome: You do not know King as well as you think you do. You believe you have great influence over him. You will end up as his slave-like all the others!

- Martin Benson (as Kralahome) in The King and I (1956)

Louis: Mother, look! The Prime Minister is naked.
Anna: Oh don't be ridiculous, Louis. He can't be all naked. He's only
[looks through the telescope]
Anna: ... half naked.

- Deborah Kerr (as Anna Leonowens) in The King and I (1956)