Quotes about Lyrics

Jan: I'm yours tonight. My darling possess me.

- Doris Day (as Jan Morrow) in Pillow Talk (1959)

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)

Gaston Lachaille: It's the same dull world where ever you go, whatever place you are at / The earth is round, but everything on it is flat!
Honore Lachaille: Don't tell me Venice has no lure!
Gaston Lachaille: Just a town without a sewer.
Honore Lachaille: The Leaning Tower I adore!
Gaston Lachaille: Indecision is a bore!
Honore Lachaille: But think of the thrill of a bull fight in Seville / when the bull is uncontrolled / and he challenges the bold matador!
Gaston Lachaille: It's a bore!

- Louis Jourdan (as Gaston Lachaille) in Gigi (1958)

Honore Lachaille: Think of lunch beneath the trees!
Gaston Lachaille: Stop the carriage, if you please!
Honore Lachaille: You mean you don't want to come?
Gaston Lachaille: The thought of lunch leaves me numb.
Honore Lachaille: But I implore...!
Gaston Lachaille: Oh, no, Uncle! It's a bore!

- Louis Jourdan (as Gaston Lachaille) in Gigi (1958)

Professor Henry Higgins: Damn, damn, damn, DAMN!
[astonished]
Professor Henry Higgins: I've grown accustomed to her face! She almost makes the day begin! I've grown accustomed to the tune that she whistles night and noon. Her smiles, her frowns, her ups, her downs, are second nature to me now, like breathing out and breathing in... I was serenely independent and content before we met! Surely I could always be that way again... And yet... I've grown accustomed to her looks, accustomed to her voice, accustomed... to her... face.

- Rex Harrison (as Professor Henry Higgins) in My Fair Lady (1964)

Professor Henry Higgins: Why can't a woman be more like a man?

- Rex Harrison (as Professor Henry Higgins) in My Fair Lady (1964)

Eliza Doolittle: I could have danced all night.

- Audrey Hepburn (as Eliza Doolittle) in My Fair Lady (1964)

Professor Henry Higgins: By George, she's got it! By George she's got it! Now once again, where does it rain?
Eliza Doolittle: [sings] On the plain, on the plain.
Professor Henry Higgins: And where's that soggy plain?
Eliza Doolittle: [sings] In Spain, in Spain!

- Audrey Hepburn (as Eliza Doolittle) in My Fair Lady (1964)

Maria: [singing] Silver white winters that melt into springs, these are a few of my favorite things

- Julie Andrews (as Maria) in The Sound of Music (1965)

Dorothy: It really was no miracle. What happened was just this...
The wind began to switch / The house, to pitch / And suddenly the hinges started to unhitch / Just then the Witch / To satisfy an itch / Went flying on her broomstick, thumbing for a hitch!

- Judy Garland (as Dorothy Gale) in The Wizard of Oz (1939)