Film Quotes by Debbie Reynolds
20 quotes
Cleve Van Valen:
From the first moment I saw you I've known that I couldn't live without you.
Lilith 'Lily' Prescott: Well... I'd hate to be the cause of your death, Mr. Van Valen.
Lilith 'Lily' Prescott: Well... I'd hate to be the cause of your death, Mr. Van Valen.
--
Debbie Reynolds
(as Lilith Prescott)
in
How the West Was Won
(1962)
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!
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!
--
Debbie Reynolds
(as Kathy Selden)
in
Singin' in the Rain
(1952)
Holly LeMaise:
Every time I think of an audience out there, I start getting butterflies.
Father Conroy: All performers get butterflies.
Holly LeMaise: But mine are wearing Army shoes, Father!
Father Conroy: All performers get butterflies.
Holly LeMaise: But mine are wearing Army shoes, Father!
--
Debbie Reynolds
(as Holly LeMaise aka Conroy)
in
Say One for Me
(1959)
Judy:
I...I love Melvin!
--
Debbie Reynolds
in
I Love Melvin
(1953)
Kathy Selden:
[sings cheerfully] Here we are! Sunset and Camden!
--
Debbie Reynolds
(as Kathy Selden)
in
Singin' in the Rain
(1952)
Kathy:
[picks up a cake] Here's one thing I learned from the movies!
[Throws it at Don but hits Lina]
[Throws it at Don but hits Lina]
--
Debbie Reynolds
(as Kathy Selden)
in
Singin' in the Rain
(1952)
Mariette Larkin:
I'll bet you made the doctor show his license before he slapped your bottom!
--
Debbie Reynolds
(as Mariette Larkin)
in
The Mating Game
(1959)
Minerva Mulvain:
Pneumonia, how old-fashioned.
--
Debbie Reynolds
(as Minerva Mulvain)
in
Athena
(1954)
Molly Brown:
[in France] Here I'm pleasant, at home I'm vulgar, I guess it's like here you eat snails, at home you step on them.
--
Debbie Reynolds
(as Molly Brown)
in
The Unsinkable Molly Brown
(1964)
Molly Brown:
[reading the ring] "Always remember two things I love you and the name of the bank."
--
Debbie Reynolds
(as Molly Brown)
in
The Unsinkable Molly Brown
(1964)