Singin' in the Rain (1952)
Donald O'Connor: Cosmo Brown
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Quotes
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[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!
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Cosmo Brown : Lina. She can't act, she can't sing, she can't dance. A triple threat.
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Cosmo Brown : Talking pictures, that means I'm out of a job. At last I can start suffering and write that symphony.
R.F. Simpson : You're not out of job, we're putting you in as head of our new music department.
Cosmo Brown : Oh, thanks, R.F.! At last I can stop suffering and write that symphony.
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Cosmo Brown : Gee, I'm glad you turned up, we've been looking inside every cake in town.
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Rod : Lina, you're a beautiful woman. Audiences think you've got a voice to match. The studio's gotta keep their stars from looking ridiculous at any cost.
Cosmo Brown : Nobody's got that much money.
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Cosmo Brown : What's the first thing an actor learns? "The show must go on!' Come rain, come shine, come snow, come sleet, the show MUST go on!
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Cosmo Brown : Short people have long faces, and long people have short faces. Big people have little humor, and little people have no humor at all.
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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.
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Cosmo Brown : [singing] My dad said, ''Be an actor, my son, But be a comical one,'' They'll be standin ' in lines, For those old honky-tonk monkeyshines, Now you could study Shakespeare, And be quite elite, And you could charm the critics, And have nothing to eat, Just slip on a banana peel, The world's at your feet, Make 'em laugh, Make 'em laugh, Make 'em laugh...
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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...
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[after Lina gets a pie thrown in her face]
Cosmo Brown : Lina, You've never looked lovelier.
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Don Lockwood : Movie? We've just seen one.
Cosmo Brown : You got to show a movie at a party. It's a Hollywood law.
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[after Don shows up late for a party]
Cosmo Brown : Don, how did you come, by way of Australia?
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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.
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[after Cosmo gives a good idea]
R.F. Simpson : Cosmo, remind me to give you a raise.
[turns around]
Cosmo Brown : Oh, R.F.
R.F. Simpson : Yes?
Cosmo Brown : Give me a raise.
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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.
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[after the demonstration of a talking picture]
R.F. Simpson : What do you think of it, Dexter?
Rosco : It'll never amount to a thing.
Olga Mara : [with heavy, snotty accent] Its vulgar!
Cosmo Brown : That's what they said about the horseless carriage.
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[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.
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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.
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R.F. Simpson : Lina, you were gorgeous!
Cosmo Brown : Yeah, Lina, you looked pretty good for a girl.
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[after picture is shown where Kathy is singing for Lina]
Cosmo Brown : Lina, you were fabulous. You sang as good as Kathy Selden.
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Kathy Selden : [laughing about the sound of "The Duelling Cavalier" going out of synchronization] I was just thinking, I think I liked her best when the sound went off and she said
[imitating Lina shaking her head]
Kathy Selden : "Yes, yes, yes."
Cosmo Brown : [imitating the actor opposite her] "No, no, no."
Kathy Selden : "Yes, yes, yes."
Cosmo Brown : "No, no..."
[a thought strikes him]
Cosmo Brown : Wait a minute. Wait a minute, I am just about to be brilliant.
[pulling her to her feet]
Cosmo Brown : Come here, Kathy. Come here. Now, sing.
Kathy Selden : Huh?
Cosmo Brown : I said sing.
[prompting her]
Cosmo Brown : Good mornin'.
Cosmo Brown , Kathy Selden : Good mornin'.
Cosmo Brown : [putting her behind him] Now, Don, keep your eyes riveted on me.
Kathy Selden : [he lip-syncs to her singing] We've talked the whole night through/Good mornin', good mornin' to you.
Cosmo Brown : Watch my mouth.
Kathy Selden : Good mornin', good mornin'/It's great to stay up late/Good mornin', good mornin' to you.
Cosmo Brown : Well? Convincing?
Don Lockwood : [missing the point] Enchanting. What?
Cosmo Brown : Don't you get it? Use Kathy's voice. Lina just moves her mouth, and Kathy's voice comes over singing and talking for her.
Kathy Selden : That's wonderful.
Don Lockwood : No. No, I couldn't let you do it, Kathy.
Kathy Selden : Why not?
Don Lockwood : Because you wouldn't be seen. You'd be throwing away your own career.
Kathy Selden : It has nothing to do with my career. It's only for this one picture. The important thing now is to save "The Duelling Cavalier", save Lockwood and Lamont.
Cosmo Brown : Yeah.
Don Lockwood : Well... well, all right, if it's only for this one picture. But... do you think it'll get by?
Kathy Selden : Of course it will.
Cosmo Brown : Sure. And it's simple to work the numbers. Why, all you gotta do is dance around Lina and teach her how to take a bow.
Don Lockwood : All right, we'll go to R.F. and spring it on him in the morning.
Kathy Selden : [kissing him] Don, you're a genius.
Cosmo Brown : Hmm. I'm glad you thought of it.
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Don Lockwood : l'm now Count Pierre de Battaille, better known as the Dueling Cavalier.
Cosmo Brown : Yeah? What's this one about?
Don Lockwood : The French Revolution story.
Cosmo Brown : Don't tell me. You're a French aristocrat and she's a simple girl of the people - and she won't even give you a tumble. Ha!
Don Lockwood : Well, it's a living.
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Diction Coach : "Sinful Caesar sipped his snifter, seized his knees and sneezed. ''
Don Lockwood : Sinful Caesar snipped his sifter
Diction Coach : Sipped his snifter.
Cosmo Brown : Sipped his snifter.
Don Lockwood : Oh, thank you. Sinful Caesar sipped his snifter, seized his knees and sneezed.
Diction Coach : Marvelous.
Cosmo Brown : Marvelous. -Wonderful.
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Cosmo Brown : The new Don Lockwood. He yodels, he jumps around to music.
Don Lockwood : The only problem is once they release this movie, no-one's gonna want to see me jump off the Woolworth building into a damp rag.
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Don Lockwood , Cosmo Brown : [singing] With a hey-nonny-nonny, And a hot-cha-cha! Hi diddle diddle, My baby's okay...
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Don Lockwood : What's the matter R.F.?
R.F. Simpson : 'The Jazz Singer', that's whats the matter, 'The Jazz Singer'.
Cosmo Brown : [singing] Oh, my darling, little Mammy, Down in Alabamy...
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Diction Coach : Here is a good one: ''Chester chooses chestnuts, cheddar cheese with chewy chives. He chews them and he chooses them. He chooses them and he chews them, those chestnuts, cheddar cheese and chives in cheery, charming chunks.''
Cosmo Brown : Wonderful! Wonderful! Do another one.
Diction Coach : Thank you. ''Moses supposes his toeses are roses, but Moses supposes erroneously. Moses, he knowses his toeses aren't roses, as Moses supposes his toeses to be.''
Don Lockwood : [singing] Moses supposes his toeses are roses, but Moses supposes erroneously.
Cosmo Brown : But Moses, he knowses his toes aren't roses, as Moses supposes his toeses to be.
Don Lockwood , Cosmo Brown : Moses supposes his toeses are roses, but Moses supposes erroneously...
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Cosmo Brown : Hot dog!
Kathy Selden : Hallelujah!
Don Lockwood : Whoopie! Fellas, I feel this is my lucky day. March 23rd.
Cosmo Brown : Oh, no, your lucky day's the 24th.
Don Lockwood : What do you mean the 24th?
Cosmo Brown : lt's 1:30 already. lt's mornin'!
Kathy Selden : Yes! And what a *lovely* mornin'.
[singing]
Kathy Selden : Good mornin'
Cosmo Brown : Good mornin'
Don Lockwood : We've talked the whole night through
Kathy Selden : Good mornin',
Don Lockwood , Cosmo Brown : Good mornin' to you
Don Lockwood , Cosmo Brown , Kathy Selden : Good mornin', Good mornin', It's great to stay up late, Good mornin', Good mornin' to you...
