Oklahoma! (1955)

Gordon MacRae: Curly

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Quotes

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

  Curly : [yelling as jumps up off the stove] Yeouch!

  Curly : [feeling the stove with his hand] Cold as a hunk of ice.

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

• [first lines]

  Curly : [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.

• Curly : If she liked me any more, she'd sic the dogs on me.

• Laurey : So that's that old Cummings gal I heared so much talk of.

  Curly : You seen her before, ain't you?

  Laurey : Yeah, but not since she got so old. Never did see anybody get so peaked-lookin' in such a short time.

  Aunt Eller : Yeah. Says she's eighteen. Ha! Bet she's nineteen.

• Laurey : We don't want people talkin' about us, do we?

  Curly : Do you think people really do talk about us?

  Laurey : You know how they are, like a swarm of mud wasps, always got to be buzzing about something.

• Curly : You never know how many people like you till you're dead.

• Curly : The women would sniffle softly, some probably even faint, the ones that took a shine to you whilst you was alive.

  Jud Fry : Now, what women ever took a shine to me?

  Curly : Lots of women. Only they never come right out and tell you how they feel unless'n you die first.

• Jud Fry : You ain't told me yet what business you had here. We got no cattle to sell. We got no cow ponies. There could be only one other thing on this farm you could want, and it better not be that!

  Curly : That's just what it is.

  Jud Fry : You keep away from her, you hear?

• Curly : [singing] He's all laid out to rest, with his hands across'd his chest. His fingernails have never been so clean.

• Curly : [singing] The daisies in the dell will give out a different smell, because poor Jud is underneath the ground.

• Curly : [singing] Just keep a slice of all the advice you give so free. Don't praise my charm too much. Don't look so vain with me. Don't stand in the rain with me. People will say we're in love.

• Curly : [singing] Don't dance all night with me, till the stars fade from above. They'll see it's all right with me. People will say we're in love.

• Laurey : [singing] Why do they think up stories that link my name with yours?

  Curly : [singing] Why do the neighbors gossip all day behind their doors?

  Laurey : [singing] I know a way to prove what they say is quite untrue. Here is the gist, a practical list of don'ts for you. Don't throw bouquets at me. Don't please my folks too much. Don't laugh at my jokes too much. People will say we're in love.

• Laurey : [singing] Has it really got a team of snow-white horses?

  Curly : [singing] One's like snow. The other's more like milk.

• Curly : [singing] Don't take my arm too much. Don't keep your hand in mine. Your hand feels so grand in mine. People will say we're in love.

• Curly : He loved the birds of the forests and the beasts of the field. He loved the mice and the vermin in the barn. And he treated the rats like equals, which was right.

• Curly : [singing] He looks like he's asleep. It's a shame that he won't keep. But it's summer and we're runnin' out of ice.

• Curly : In this country, there's just two things you can do if you're a man. You can live outdoors is one, and you can live in a hole is the other.

• Curly : [singing] Jud was the most misunderstood man in this territory. People used to think he was a mean, ugly fella, and call him a dirty skunk and ornery pig stealer. But the folks that really knowed him, knowed that beneath them two dirty shirts he always wore, there beat a heart as big as all outdoors.

• Curly : [singing] We know we belong to the land. And the land we belong to is grand.

• Curly : [singing] You're doin' fine, Oklahoma. Oklahoma, okay.

• Curly : [singing] Oklahoma, where the wind comes sweepin' down the plain...

• Curly : Country's a-changin'. I got to change with it.

• [Curly notices that a haystack is on fire]

  Curly : [yelling to everyone] Fire! Haystack's a fire!

  Skidmore : Get some water!

  [Skidmore and the others are getting the water, as Jud runs with a torch to the haystack atop which Curly and Laurey are standing]

  Jud Fry : Curly, I've got a present for ya! I didn't have to kiss the bride! But, I've got a present for you!

  [Jud torches the haystack, and Laurey begins screaming]

  Jud Fry : [to Curly as he draws a knife] There's a present for you! Come on! Come on!

  Curly : Ike! Slim! Quick!

  Jud Fry : Come on!

  [Curly quickly lowers Laurey off the haystack. Curly sees Jud, jumps off the haystack and pounces atop him. Curly notices that in the process Jud has fatally fallen on his knife.]

• Curly : [to Jud] How did you get to be the way you ere anyhow?

  Curly : [referring to the smokehouse] 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'?