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Year: 1955

Director:
Robert Aldrich

The Big Knife

Charlie Castle: There's a word for you.
Connie Bliss: Why don't you say it, darling?

-- Jean Hagen in The Big Knife (1955)

Year: 1952

Director:
Stanley Donen*Gene Kelly

Singin' in the Rain

Don Lockwood: [while filming a love scene] Why, you rattlesnake! You got that poor kid fired.
Lina Lamont: That's not all I'm gonna do if I ever get my hands on her.
Don Lockwood: I never heard of anything so low. Why did you do it?
Lina Lamont: Because you liked her. I could tell.
Don Lockwood: So that's it. Believe me, I don't like her half as much as I hate you, you reptile.
Lina Lamont: Sticks and stones may break my bones...
Don Lockwood: I'd like to break every bone in your body.
Lina Lamont: You and who else, you big lummox?

-- Jean Hagen (as Lina Lamont) in Singin' in the Rain (1952)

Year: 1952

Director:
Stanley Donen*Gene Kelly

Singin' in the Rain

Don Lockwood: Now Lina, you've been reading all those fan magazines again! Now look Lina, you shouldn't believe all that banana oil Dora Bailey and the columnists dish out. Now try to get this straight: there is nothing between us. There has never been anything between us. Just air.
Lina: Oh, Donny, you don't mean that.

-- Jean Hagen (as Lina Lamont) in Singin' in the Rain (1952)

Year: 1952

Director:
Stanley Donen*Gene Kelly

Singin' in the Rain

Kathy Selden: Now look, Miss Lamont, Don and I...
Lina Lamont: Don? Don't you *dare* call him Don! I was calling him Don before you were born! I mean... You-you were kissing him!
Don Lockwood: *I* was kissing *her*! I happen to be in love with her.
Lina Lamont: That's ridiculous. Everybody knows you're in love with me.

-- Jean Hagen (as Lina Lamont) in Singin' in the Rain (1952)

Year: 1952

Director:
Stanley Donen*Gene Kelly

Singin' in the Rain

Phoebe Dinsmore: [giving Lina diction lessons] Repeat after me - Tah, Tey, Tee, Toe, Too.
Lina Lamont: Tah, Tey, Tye, Tow, Tyo.
Phoebe Dinsmore: No, no, no Miss Lamont, Round tones, round tones. Now, let me hear you read your line.
Lina Lamont: And I cayn't stand'im.
Phoebe Dinsmore: And I can't stand him.
Lina Lamont: And I cayn't stand'im.
Phoebe Dinsmore: Can't.
Lina Lamont: Cayn't.
Phoebe Dinsmore: Caaaan't
Lina Lamont: Cayyyyn't

-- Jean Hagen (as Lina Lamont) in Singin' in the Rain (1952)

Year: 1962

Director:
Ray Milland

Panic in Year Zero!

Ann Baldwin: I know I should be grateful we're still alive, but... I love you, Harry, but not more than a future without hope. I've got to have hope to go on. I've got to know there are other people like us, like our children. People who are better than just animals!

-- Jean Hagen in Panic in Year Zero! (1962)

Year: 1949

Director:
George Cukor

Adam's Rib

Beryl Caighn: And then I heard a noise.
Adam Bonner: What kind of noise?
Beryl Caighn: Like a sound.

-- Jean Hagen (as Beryl Caighn) in Adam's Rib (1949)

Year: 1949

Director:
George Cukor

Adam's Rib

Beryl Caighn: She tried to shoot me.
Adam Bonner: How do you know that?
Beryl Caighn: Because she did.

-- Jean Hagen (as Beryl Caighn) in Adam's Rib (1949)

Year: 1959

Director:
Charles Barton

The Shaggy Dog

Freeda Daniels: Frankly, I think that dogs don't like mailmen because... well, because sometimes they bring bad news. Animals sense those things, you know.

-- Jean Hagen (as Freeda Daniels) in The Shaggy Dog (1959)

Year: 1959

Director:
Charles Barton

The Shaggy Dog

Freeda Daniels: There is nothing wrong with girls; they're character building.

-- Jean Hagen (as Freeda Daniels) in The Shaggy Dog (1959)

Film Quotes by Jean Hagen