Gene Kelly credited as playing...
Don Lockwood
- [Don Lockwood is being mobbed by several fans on the street]
- Don Lockwood: [desperately] Hey, Cos! Do something! Call me a cab!
- Cosmo Brown: OK, you're a cab.
- Don Lockwood: [unimpressed] Thanks a lot!
- [after filming a love scene]
- Lina Lamont: Oh Donny! You couldn't kiss me like that and not mean it just a teensy-weensy bit!
- Don Lockwood: Meet the greatest actor in the world. I'd rather kiss a tarantula!
- Lina Lamont: But, you don't mean that.
- Don Lockwood: I don't - - Hey Joe, get me a tarantula.
- Don Lockwood: What's your lofty mission in life that lets you sneer at my humble profession?
- Kathy Selden: I'm an actress...
- Don Lockwood: Oh...
- Kathy: ...on the stage.
- Don Lockwood: Oh, on the stage, well I'd like to see you act, what are you in right now? I could brush up on my English, or bring along an interpreter, that is if they'd let in a *movie* actor.
- Kathy Selden: I'm not in a play right now, but I will be. I'm going to New York...
- Don Lockwood: Oh, you're going to New York and then some day we'll all hear of you, won't we? Kathy Selden as Juliet, as Lady Macbeth, as King Lear. You'll have to wear a beard for that one of course.
- Kathy Selden: Laugh all you want, but at least the stage is a dignified profession.
- Don Lockwood: [scoffing] Dignified profession.
- Kathy: What do you have to be so conceited about? You're nothing but a shadow on film... just a shadow. You're not flesh and blood.
- Don Lockwood: Oh, no?
- [moves amorously towards her]
- Kathy: Stop!
- Don Lockwood: What can I do to you, I'm only a shadow.
- Don Lockwood: [while filming a love scene] Why, you rattlesnake! You got that poor kid fired.
- Lina Lamont: That's not all I'm gonna do if I ever get my hands on her.
- Don Lockwood: I never heard of anything so low. Why did you do it?
- Lina Lamont: Because you liked her. I could tell.
- Don Lockwood: So that's it. Believe me, I don't like her half as much as I hate you, you reptile.
- Lina Lamont: Sticks and stones may break my bones...
- Don Lockwood: I'd like to break every bone in your body.
- Lina Lamont: You and who else, you big lummox?
- Kathy Selden: Now look, Miss Lamont, Don and I...
- Lina Lamont: Don? Don't you *dare* call him Don! I was calling him Don before you were born! I mean... You-you were kissing him!
- Don Lockwood: *I* was kissing *her*! I happen to be in love with her.
- Lina Lamont: That's ridiculous. Everybody knows you're in love with me.
- Cosmo Brown: Why bother to shoot this film? Why not release the old one under a new title? You've seen one, you've seen them all.
- Don Lockwood: Hey, what'd you say that for?
- Cosmo Brown: What's the matter?
- Don Lockwood: That's what that Kathy Selden said to me that night.
- Cosmo Brown: That's three weeks ago, you still thinking about that?
- Don Lockwood: I can't get her out of my mind.
- Cosmo Brown: How could you - she's the first dame who hasn't fallen for your line since you were four.
- Don Lockwood: I'm no actor. I never was. Just a lot of dumb show. I know that now.
- Cosmo Brown: Well, at least you're taking it lying down.
- Don Lockwood: No. No kidding, Cosmo. Did you ever see anything as idiotic as me on that screen tonight?
- Kathy Selden: Yeah, how about Lina?
- Don Lockwood: All right. I ran her a close second. Maybe it was a photo finish. Anyway, I'm through, fellas.
- Kathy Selden: Don, you're not through!
- Cosmo Brown: Why of course not. Why, with your looks and your figure, you could drive an ice wagon or shine shoes!
- Kathy Selden: Block hats!
- Cosmo Brown: Sell pencils!
- Kathy Selden: Dig ditches!
- Cosmo Brown: Or worse still, go back to vaudeville.
- [singing]
- Cosmo Brown: La-da-de-dum-dum-dum, Fit as a fiddle and ready for love...
- Kathy Selden: You keep away from me! Just because you're a big movie star, wild parties, swimming pools, you expect every girl to fall in a dead faint at your feet. Well, don't you touch me!
- Don Lockwood: [chanting] Fear not, sweet lady! I will not molest you. I am but a humble jester, and you? You are to far above me!
- [he gets out of the car and closes the door on his coat tails]
- Don Lockwood: Farewell, Ethel Barrymore! I must tear myself from your side!
- [Don tears his coat. Kathy guffaws as Don walks away]
- Don Lockwood: Movie? We've just seen one.
- Cosmo Brown: You got to show a movie at a party. It's a Hollywood law.
- Don Lockwood: I just had to tell you how good you were.
- Kathy Selden: Excuse me.
- Don Lockwood: No, no, don't go.
- [pointing to cake she came out of at beginning of scene]
- Don Lockwood: Now that I know where you live I'd like to see you home.
- Don Lockwood: Tell me the truth, am I a good actor?
- Cosmo Brown: As long as I'm working for Monumental Pictures, you're the greatest of 'em all.
- Kathy Selden: Good night, Don. Take care of that throat. You're a big singing star now, remember? This California dew is just a little heavier than usual tonight.
- Don Lockwood: Really? From where l stand, the sun is shining all over the place.
- [singing]
- Don Lockwood: I'm singin ' in the rain, Just singin ' in the rain, What a glorious feelin', I'm happy again... .
- Cosmo Brown: The price of fame. You've got the glory, you gotta take the little heartaches that go with it. Now look at me: I've got no fame, I've got no glory, I've got no big mansions, I've got no money! But I've got - what have I got?
- Don Lockwood: I don't know, what have you got?
- Cosmo Brown: I gotta get out of here.
- Don Lockwood: Now Lina, you've been reading all those fan magazines again! Now look Lina, you shouldn't believe all that banana oil Dora Bailey and the columnists dish out. Now try to get this straight: there is nothing between us. There has never been anything between us. Just air.
- Lina Lamont: Oh, Donny, you don't mean that.
- Don Lockwood: Which of my pictures have you seen?
- Kathy Selden: I don't remember. I saw one once.
- Don Lockwood: You saw one once?
- Kathy Selden: Yes, I think you were dueling and there was a girl - Lina Lamont. But I don't go to the movies much. If you've seen one you've seen them all.
- Don Lockwood: Thank you.
- Kathy Selden: Oh, no offense. Movies are entertaining enough for the masses but the personalities on the screen just don't impress me. I mean they don't talk, they don't act, the just make a lot of dumb show. Well, you know
- [demonstrates]
- Kathy Selden: like that.
- Don Lockwood: You mean like what I do?
- Kathy Selden: Well, yes!
- Don Lockwood: Are you doing anything tonight, Miss Lamont?
- [she shakes her head "no"]
- Don Lockwood: Well's that's funny - *I'm* busy.
- [after Cosmo's car breaks down]
- Don Lockwood: Don't tell me, it's a flat tire.
- Cosmo Brown: I can't undertand it. This car hasn't given me a lick of trouble in nearly 6 hours.
- Kathy Selden: Are you sure it's all right? Being seen with me?
- Don Lockwood: You mean lofty star with humble player?
- Kathy Selden: Not exactly, but for lunch don't you usually tear a pheasant with Miss Lamont?
- Don Lockwood: Kathy, all the stories about Lina and me are sheer publicity.
- Kathy Selden: Oh? It certainly seems more than that. From all those columns in the newspapers and articles in the fan magazines...
- Don Lockwood: You read the fan magazines?
- Kathy Selden: I pick them up at the beauty parlor or the dentist's office, just like anybody.
- Don Lockwood: Really?
- Kathy Selden: Well... I buy four or five a month.
- Don Lockwood: Four or five...
- Kathy Selden: But anyway, to get back to the point, you and Miss Lamont do achieve a certain intimacy in all your pictures...
- Don Lockwood: Did you say *all* our pictures?
- Kathy Selden: I guess if I think about it I've seen eight or nine of them.
- Don Lockwood: You know I remember someone saying, "If you've seen one you've seen 'em all".
- Kathy Selden: I said some awful things that night, didn't I?
- Don Lockwood: No. I deserved them. But I must admit I was hurt by them. So hurt in fact that I haven't been able to think about anything but you ever since.
- Don Lockwood: What's the matter with that girl? Can't she take a gentle hint?
- Cosmo Brown: Well haven't ya heard? She's irresistible. She told me so herself.