musical quotes
I’m keeping a delightfully steady pace with my progress on my New Year’s resolution to watch all 25 movies on the American Film Institute’s list of the top 25 musicals. I need to average two a month, and since it’s the middle of May, I’m right on track with 9 so far.
Here are a few memorable quotes I jotted down while watching several of the less popular musicals:
Jerry: That’s… quite a dress you almost have on.
Milo: Thanks.
Jerry: What holds it up?
Milo: Modesty.
Lise: It’s a pity you don’t have as much charm as you have persistence.
[Somebody]: Tell him you were wrong.
Fanny Brice: But I’m not!
[Somebody]: Oh.
Chip: Why do you have to chase after girls all the time?
Gabey: I’ll tell you when your voice changes.
Gabey: You know, somewhere in the world there’s a right girl for every boy. I guess I found the one for me before I even met you.
Dale (a female): I don’t know you from Adam.
Jerry: Maybe it’s the way I’m dressed.
Madge: Well if that’s your story, Horace, you stick to it.
lbl346 said,
Wednesday, May 20, 2009 at 8:36 am
I really like the one from The American in Paris. Maybe I should watch it sometime.
iamamoser said,
Wednesday, May 20, 2009 at 9:49 am
Did you like On the Town?!
Bone said,
Thursday, May 21, 2009 at 10:00 pm
I love the dialogue in old films. It always seems so much better and more clever. Unlike this comment
r8chel said,
Monday, May 25, 2009 at 10:46 pm
Laura: You should. And you should invite me to watch it with you in your home theater.
Ms. Moser: I did! It was a lot of fun. And with Gene Kelly and Frank Sinatra, how can you go wrong?
Bone: I hope 70 years from now people look back at our blogs and say how much more clever blogs used to be.
Bone said,
Wednesday, May 27, 2009 at 11:49 am
Haha. Maybe they will, Lois. Maybe they will.