Gidget (1959)
Cliff Robertson: Burt Vail aka The Big Kahuna
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Quotes
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Gidget : What is it?
Burt Vail aka The Big Kahuna : It's time for you go to go home that's what it is. Before I forget it's just a game.
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Burt Vail aka The Big Kahuna : She might be pint-sized, but she's quite a woman.
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Jeffrey Matthews aka Moondoggie : Please, no tourists, Kahuna.
Burt Vail aka The Big Kahuna : Hey, Francie's no tourist. She's got a real yen to pick up on surfing.
Jeffrey Matthews aka Moondoggie : That gidget?
Lord Byron : A gidget.
Francie Lawrence aka Gidget : Hey, wait a minute, fellas. Let me in on the gag too, huh?
Lover Boy : Well, you see, it's arrived at through osmosis.
Hot Shot : Yeah. Girl and midget: a gidget.
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Francie Lawrence aka Gidget : What'll happen to your future? I mean, doesn't everybody have to have a goal or something?
Burt Vail aka The Big Kahuna : Who said? There's your answer, little one. "Who said?"
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Burt Vail aka The Big Kahuna : You done much surfing?
Francie Lawrence aka Gidget : Uh, no, not too much. Yesterday was my first. Boy, was it ever exciting! It was like nothing I ever felt before! Whoop! We're on an elevator headed for the sky. And then, zoom! Speeding across the ocean, on top of the world! It was the ultimate!
Burt Vail aka The Big Kahuna : The big kick, huh? Sounds like you're a goner, kid.
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Burt Vail aka The Big Kahuna : That's Lord Byron. The beard means he digs existentialism.
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Burt Vail aka The Big Kahuna : I'm a surf bum. You know, ride the waves, eat, sleep, not a care in the world. Here.
[holds a shell up to Gidget's ear]
Burt Vail aka The Big Kahuna : You hear that? The sea left its whisper in there. That's the secret to the whole thing.
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Burt Vail aka The Big Kahuna : You know the code: Live and let live.
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Burt Vail aka The Big Kahuna : Cheer up, angel. Don't you know that frowning is bad for the face, beautiful?
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Francie Lawrence aka Gidget : Kahuna, I want to come to that luau!
Burt Vail aka The Big Kahuna : Baby-doll, what is it with you? Don't you ever give up?
Francie Lawrence aka Gidget : Well, not when I want something! Well, it's like anything, you want it bad enough, you work for it! And right now what I want more than anything else in the whole wide *world* is to go to that luau! Well, Kahuna, you know yourself, it's the bang-up finish to the whole summer! Well, it's like graduation day. I mean, it's the ultimate!
Burt Vail aka The Big Kahuna : Oh, Gidget, Gidget, Gidget.
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Burt Vail aka The Big Kahuna : Outside, the ocean. Inside, you and me, and nothing else matters, hmm? Who was it that said, "Suspended in time and space," "your lips on mine, the soft contours of... "
Francie Lawrence aka Gidget : I don't know.
Burt Vail aka The Big Kahuna : I did. I just made it up.
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Francie Lawrence aka Gidget : Well, how about it?
Burt Vail aka The Big Kahuna : How about what?
Francie Lawrence aka Gidget : How about one of your little private parties?
Burt Vail aka The Big Kahuna : How about one of my little - private parties? Are you, um, are you sure that's want you want?
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Burt Vail aka The Big Kahuna : The party's over, now blow.
Jeffrey Matthews aka Moondoggie : I'll blow when I'm ready.
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Burt Vail aka The Big Kahuna : Call of the sea, follow the sun, and all of that jazz.