Memorable Quotes from Douglas Fowley
5 quotesFilming a Scene in Singin' in the Rain
Roscoe Dexter
All right, here we go! QUIET!! ROLL EM!!
Lina Lamont
Oh, Pierre! You shouldn't have come!
Recorder
She's gotta talk into the mike. I can't pick it up.
Roscoe Dexter
CUT!!
Don Lockwood
What's the matter, Dexter?
Roscoe Dexter
It's Lina! Look, Lina, don't you remember? I told you. There's a microphone right there in the bush.
Lina Lamont
Yeah.
Roscoe Dexter
You have to talk into it.
Lina Lamont
I was talking. Wasn't I, Mrs. Dinsmore?
Dinsmore
Yes, my dear. But please remember, round tones. "Pierre, you shouldn't have come!
Lina Lamont
Pierre, you shouldn't have come!
Dinsmore
Yes, yes, my dear. That's much better.
Roscoe Dexter
Hold it a second! Now, Lina, look. Here's the mike, right here in the bush.
Lina Lamont
Yeah!
Roscoe Dexter
Now you talk towards it. The sound goes through the cable to the box. A man records it on a big record in wax. But, you have to talk into the mike first. In the bush! Now, try it again.
Lina Lamont
Gee, this is dumb.
Don Lockwood
She'll get it, Dexter. Lina, don't worry. We're all a little nervous on the first day. Everything's gonna be okay. Oh, Roscoe! You know the scene where I say, "Imperious princess of the night?" I don't like those lines there. Is it okay if I say what I always do? "I love you, I love you, I love you!
Roscoe Dexter
Sure. Anyway, it's comfortable. BUT, INTO THE BUSH!! Okay, again! QUIET!! ROLL EM!!
Lina Lamont
Oh, Pierre, you shouldn't have come! You're flirting with danger. You'll surely find you out.
Roscoe Dexter
CUT!! Lina, you're missing every other word. You've got to talk into the mike!
Lina Lamont
Well, I can't make love to a bush!
Roscoe Dexter
Alright, alright! We'll have to think of something else.
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Suspicion and Humor in Dialogue
Nick Crowder
Clipper, you'd suspect your own grandmother!
Clipper McCoy
Yeah, but you're not my grandmother.
Nick Crowder
Don't bet on it!
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Beauty and Mystery in a Dark Scene
Autopsy Surgeon
She was a very beautiful girl. One hates to perform an autopsy on a beautiful girl.
Terry Lee
Pardon me, Professor, but didn't I just see you outside baying at the moon?
Dr. Joseph Van Ee
So it is you, Leonide. I was warned you might appear, like one of you own illusions out of nowhere.
Bill Raymond
There were screams inside! You gotta admit that it's in the longitude of my profession to make with an investigatory reaction there to- What am I saying?
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Flirting with Danger in a Hostile Night
Yvonne
Oh, Pierre! You shouldn't have come. You are flirting with danger! They will surely find you out. Your head is much too valuable!
Roscoe Dexter
She never could remember where the microphone was, boss.
[to R.F.]
Pierre
T'was Cupid himself who called me here. And I, smitten by his arrow...
Yvonne
The night is full of our enemies.
[lightly hits Pierre with her fan, generating several loud thuds]
Boy in audience
Hey, Lina, what are you hitting him with? A blackjack?
Pierre
I love you.
Yvonne
Oh, Pierre...
Pierre
I love you! I love you! I love you! I love you! I love you! I love you! I love you! I love you!
[starts kissing Yvonne up her arm, as the audience laughter grows louder]
Man in audience
Did someone get paid for writing that dialogue?
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A Meeting Between a Journalist and a Star
Leonide
It is a pleasure to meet one of my youthful admirers.
Terry Lee
Terry Lee of the Central City Times.
Leonide
The press? Well, it's nice to have known you.
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