Memorable Quotes from Jean Hagen
5 quotesTransitioning to Talking Pictures and New Opportunities
R.F. Simpson
The public is screaming for more...talking pictures...Every studio is jumping on the bandwagon, Dexter. All the theatres are putting in sound equipment. We don't want to be left out of it.
Cosmo
Talking pictures, that means I'm out of a job. At last I can start suffering and write that symphony.
R.F. Simpson
You're not out of a job, we're putting you in as head of the new music department.
Cosmo
Well, thanks, R.F.! At last I can stop suffering and write that symphony.
R.F. Simpson
Don, it'll be a sensation! "Lamont and Lockwood: they talk!
Lina Lamont
Well of course we talk. Don't everybody?
[with a voice to peel paint]
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Filming 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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Lina Lamont's Defiance Against Being Undermined
Lina Lamont
You mean it's gonna say up on the screen that I don't talk and sing for myself?...They can't DO that!...They can't make a fool out of Lina Lamont. They can't make a laughingstock out of Lina Lamont. What do they think I am, dumb or something? Why I make more money than—than—than ]! Put together!
[[Calvin Coolidge]
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Finding Joy in Hard Work
Lina Lamont
If we bring a little joy into your humdrum lives, it makes us feel as though our hard work ain't been in vain for nothing. Bless you all.
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A Star's Declaration of Grandeur
Lina Lamont
People? I ain't people! I am a---'a shimmering, glowing star in the cinema firm-a-mint! It says so - right there.
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