Oklahoma! (1955)

Gloria Grahame: Ado Annie

Quotes

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

  Ado Annie : August fifteenth.

  Will Parker : Why August fifteenth?

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

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

  Ado Annie : You wasn't there.

• Ado Annie : He called me his Persian kitten!

  Mr. Carnes : what'd you call her that for?

  Ali Hakim : 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!

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

• Ali Hakim : 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 Parker : Why, sure. That's the way they do in them countries.

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

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

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

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

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

  Mr. Carnes : Oh, you would, would you?

  Aunt Eller : 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!

• Ali Hakim : Oh, I did not say that.

  Ado Annie : Oh, yes, you did.

  Ali Hakim : No, I did not.

  Mr. Carnes : Are you trying to make my daughter out to be a liar?

  Ali Hakim : Oh, no, no, no, no. I was only trying to make clear to you what a liar I am, if she is telling the truth.

• Ado Annie : Ali, Laurey and me been having an argument.

  Ali Hakim : About what, baby?

  Ado Annie : About what you meant when you said that about driving with me to the end of the world.

  Ali Hakim : Well, I didn't really mean to the end of the world.

  Ado Annie : Well, then how far did you want to go?

  Ali Hakim : About as far as say, uh, Claremore.

  Ado Annie : What's at Claremore?

  Ali Hakim : The hotel. In front is a veranda, inside is the lobby, and upstairs, baby, might be paradise.

  Ado Annie : I thought they's just bedrooms.

  Ali Hakim : For you and me, baby, paradise.

• Ado Annie : There won't never be nobody like Will.

  Laurey : Then what about this peddler-man?

  Ado Annie : Oh, there won't never be nobody like him neither.

  Laurey : Well, you got to make up your mind. Which one do you like the best?

  Ado Annie : Whatever one I'm with.

• Will Parker : You ain't gonna think of that old peddler-man anymore, are ya?

  Ado Annie : Of course not. I never think of no one unless'n he's with me.

  Will Parker : Then I'll never leave your side.

  Ado Annie : Well, even if you never go away, can't you once't in awhile give me one of them Persian good-byes?

  Will Parker : Persian good-bye? Why, that ain't nothin' compared to Oklahoma hello.

  Ado Annie : Hello, Will!

• Ali Hakim : Look, Annie, there is a man who loves you like nothing never loved nobody. That's the man for you, Will Parker.

  Ado Annie : Oh, yeah. Well, I like Will a lot.

  Ali Hakim : Oh, he's a fine fellow. He's strong like an ox. He's young, handsome.

  Ado Annie : Oh, I love him, all right, I guess.

  Ali Hakim : Of course you do. And you love those clear blue eyes of his, and the way his mouth wrinklies up when he smiles.

  Ado Annie : Do you love him too?

  Ali Hakim : I love him because he will make my Ado Annie happy.

• Ado Annie : How long you been married?

  Ali Hakim : Four days. Four days with that laugh should count like a golden wedding.

• Ado Annie : That's Will Parker. Promise me you won't fight him!

  Ali Hakim : Why fight? I never saw the man before. I fight only my friends.

• Ado Annie : [singing] I'm just a girl who cain't say no.

• Ado Annie : [singing] Every time I lose a wrestlin' match, I have a funny feelin' that I won.

• Ado Annie : [singing] Kissing's my favorite food.

• Ado Annie : [singing] I only did the kind of things I oughta, sorta. To you I was as faithful as can be, for me. Them stories 'bout the way I lost my bloomers, rumors. A lot of tempest in a pot of tea.

• Ado Annie : [singing] Supposing that we should have a third one?

  Will Parker : [singing] He better look a lot like me.

  Ado Annie : [singing] The spittin' image.

  Will Parker : [singing] He better look a lot like me.

• Ado Annie : [singing] With you it's all or nothin'. All for you and nothin' for me. But if a wife is wise, she's got to realize that men like you are wild and free. So I ain't gonna fuss, ain't gonna frown. Have your fun. Go out on the town. Stay up late and don't come home till 3. And go right off to sleep if you're sleepy. No use waitin' up for me.

• Ado Annie : [singing] I'll give a imitation of a crawfish, and dig myself a hole where I can hide.

• Will Parker : [singing] With me it's all or nothin'. Is it all or nothin' with you? It can't be in between. It can't be now and then. No half-and-half romance will do. I'm a one-woman man, home-lovin' type, all complete with slippers and pipe. Take me like I am or leave me be. If you can't give me all, give me nothin'. And nothin's what you'll get from me.

  Ado Annie : [singing] Not even somethin'?

  Will Parker : [singing] Nothing's what you'll get from me.

  Ado Annie : [singing] It can't be in between?

  Will Parker : Uh-uh.

  Ado Annie : [singing] It can't be now and then?

  Will Parker : [singing] No half-and-half romance will do.

• Ali Hakim : Good-bye, baby. I will show you how we say good-bye in Persia.

  Ado Annie : That was good-bye?

  Ali Hakim : We have an old song in Persia. It says... One good-bye... is never enough.

  Ado Annie : Hello, Will. Ali Hakim's saying good-bye.

  Ali Hakim : Ah, Will, I want to say good-bye to you too.

  Will Parker : No, you don't. I just saw the last one.