Oklahoma! (1955) - Quotes

Celebrating a Beloved Musical Experience

Taglines: The best loved musical of our time!

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Anticipation Unveiled: It's Here

Taglines: It's Here!

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Complete Motion Picture Experience at Broadway Price

Taglines: Complete - intact - with every scene - every song - of the motion picture that ran a year on Broadway at $3.50!

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Affordable Entertainment for Everyone

Taglines: Now everyone can see it-at popular prices!

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Complete and Intact: Every Scene and Song

Taglines: Complete...Intact...with Every Scene...Every Song!

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A Grand Motion Picture Experience Awaits

Taglines: Now a motion picture as big as all outdoors! (first run Todd-AO version)

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Aunt Eller Advocates for the Cowboys

Aunt Eller Murphy: [singing] I'd like to say a word for the cowboys.

Carnes: Oh, you would, would you?

Aunt Eller Murphy: [singing] The road he treads is difficult and stony. He rides for days on end with just a pony for a friend...

Ado Annie: I sure am feelin sorry for the pony!

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Oklahoma! - Dialogue 7

Will: I don't know what to make of you! You're too purty to be a skunk! Too thin to be a snake! Too little to be a man, and too big to be a mouse! I reckon you're a rat!

Ali: That's logical.

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Parental Concerns About Distance and Responsibility

Ali: You'd hardly ever see your daughter no more!

Carnes: That'd be all right. Just take care of her, son.

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Ado Annie's Persian Kitten Reference

Ado Annie: He called me his Persian kitten!

Carnes: What'd you call her that for?

Ali: Ohh - I don't remember...

Ado Annie: I do! He said I's like a Persian kitten cause they is the cats with the soft round tails!

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Persian Marriages: A Matter of Perspective

Ali: It's a wonderful thing to be married. I got a brother in Persia got six wives.

Ado Annie: Six wives all at once?

Will: Why, sure. That's the way they do in them countries.

Ali: Not always; I got a brother in Persia only got one wife. He's a bachelor.

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Unexpected Consequences of Sitting on the Stove

Laurey: Curly! You're sittin on the stove!

Curly: Yeouch!

Curly: Cold as a hunk of ice.

Laurey: Wish it would've burned a hole in your pants.

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Significant Date for a First Kiss

Will: Now that I got that fifty dollars, you name the date.

Ado Annie: August 15th.

Will: Why August 15th?

Ado Annie: Because that was the first day I'se kissed!

Will: Oh was it? I didn't remember that!

Ado Annie: You wasn't there.

The Need for Companionship in Relationships

Ado Annie: Sometimes there seems like times that men ain't got no need for women.

Girl: There's sometimes women ain't got no need for men.

Ado Annie: Yeah, but who wants to be dead?

Marriage Proposals and Class Struggles in Oklahoma

Carnes: [to Ali, cocking his gun] That's enough. In this country that better be a proposal of marriage.

Ali Hakim: [about Ado Annie] I wanted to marry her when I saw the moonlight shining on the barrel of her father's shotgun.

Aunt Eller Murphy: [with gun in hand] SING! SING! C'mon now! Sing!

Jud Fry: [to Laurey] Look at me. I'm a hired hand. I got dirt on my hands. Pig slop. I ain't fit to touch you, am I - you're better. Oh, you're so much better, Miss Laurey Williams! Well we'll see how much better you are, and then you won't be so free and easy and hifalutin with your airs! You such a FINE lady!

Questioning Lifestyle Choices and Habits

Curly McLain: [to Jud; referring to the smokehouse] How did you get to be the way you are anyhow? A-sittin up here in this filthy hole? Why don't you do something healthy once in a while, instead of staying shut up here, a-crawlin and a-festerin'?

Fear of Overzealous Affection

Curly McLain: [about Laurey] If she liked me any more, she'd sic the dogs on me.

A Joyful Ride in the Surrey

Curly McLain: [singing] Chicks and ducks and geese better scurryWhen I take you out in the surrey,When I take you out in the surrey with the fringe on top!Watch that fringe and see how it fluttersWhen I drive them high steppin strutters.Nosey pokes'll peek thru their shutters and their eyes will pop!The wheels are yeller, the upholstery's brown,The dashboard's genuine leather,With isinglass curtains y can roll right down,In case there's a change in the weather.

A Beautiful Morning in Oklahoma

Curly McLain: [singing] There's a bright golden haze on the meadow,There's a bright golden haze on the meadow.The corn is as high as a elephant's eye,And it looks like it's climbin clear up to the sky.Oh, what a beautiful mornin',Oh, what a beautiful day!I got a beautiful feelin'Everything's goin my way.