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Singin' in the Rain (1952)
Jean Hagen: Lina Lamont
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Quotes
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Lina Lamont : What's wrong with the way I talk? What's the big idea? Am I dumb or something?
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Lina Lamont : Gee, this wig weighs a ton! What dope'd wear a thing like this?
Rosco : Everybody used to wear them, Lina.
Lina Lamont : Well, then everybody was a dope.
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[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.
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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 nothin'. Bless you all.
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[filming a scene with a microphone hidden in a bush]
Rosco : Lina! We're missing every other word! You've got to talk into the mike!
Lina Lamont : [pointing at the bush] Well, I can't make love to a bush!
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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?
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R.F. Simpson : Don, it'll be a sensation! "Lamont and Lockwood: they talk!"
Lina Lamont : [with a voice to peel paint] Well of *course* we talk. Don't everybody?
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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.
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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.
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Lina Lamont : They can't make a fool out of Lina Lamont. They can't make a laughing stock out of Lina Lamont. What do they think I am? Dumb or something? Why, I make more money than - than - than Calvin Coolidge! Put together!
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Lina Lamont : [after demanding Kathy Selden continue as her voice double and not be given bigger parts] After all, I'm still more important to the studio than she is.
R.F. Simpson : Lina, I wouldn't do that to her in a million years. Why, you'd be taking her career away from her. People just don't do things like that.
Lina Lamont : People? I ain't "people"! I am a...
[reads from newspaper]
Lina Lamont : "a shimmering, glowing star in the cinema firmament." It says so...
[hands newspaper to R.F]
Lina Lamont : right there.
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Phoebe Dinsmore : [giving Lina diction lessons] Repeat after me - Tah, Tey, Tee, Toe, Too.
Lina Lamont : Tah, Tey, Tye, Tow, Tyo.
Phoebe Dinsmore : No, no, no Miss Lamont, Round tones, round tones. Now, let me hear you read your line.
Lina Lamont : And I cayn't stand'im.
Phoebe Dinsmore : And I can't stand him.
Lina Lamont : And I cayn't stand'im.
Phoebe Dinsmore : Can't.
Lina Lamont : Cayn't.
Phoebe Dinsmore : Caaaan't
Lina Lamont : Cayyyyn't
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Lina Lamont : You mean it's going to say on the screen that I don't talk and sing for myself?
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Lina Lamont : It ain't been in vain for nothin'.
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[repeated line]
Lina Lamont : What do you/they think I am? Dumb or something?
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Lina Lamont : Who need ya? They'd come to see me if l played opposite a monkey!
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R.F. Simpson : Lina, did you send this stuff out?
Lina Lamont : I gave an exclusive story to every paper in town.
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Lina Lamont : You should've been worried about me a little. After all, l'm the one who got whipped cream in the kisser!
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Lina Lamont : Listen to that applause out there and wait till the money starts rolling in. You're not gonna give all that up just because some little nobody don't wanna be my voice.
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Lina Lamont : Say, who is this dame anyway?
Don Lockwood : [sarcastically] Oh, someone lofty and far above us all. She couldn't learn anything from the movies. She's an actress on the legitimate stage.