Other Titles • Gentlemen Prefer Blondes • Howard Hawks' Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953) • Blondinen bevorzugt (1954)
Quotes from Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953)
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Lady Beekman: You'll find I mean business! Dorothy Shaw: Oh, really? Then why are you wearing that hat?
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Dorothy Shaw: I like a man who can run faster than I can.
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Dorothy Shaw: In bed by nine? That's when life just begins!
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Dorothy Shaw: [Dorothy is admiring some athletes] Gus Esmond: Dorothy Shaw, you're supposed to be the chaperone on the trip! Dorothy Shaw: Now let's get one thing straight, Gus: The chaperone's job is to make sure nobody else has any fun. But nobody chaperone's the chaperone. That's why I'm so right for this job.
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[Staring at Lorelei and Dorothy] Olympic Athlete #1: Say, suppose the ship hits an iceberg and sinks. Which one of them do you save from drowning? Olympic Athlete #2: Those girls couldn't drown.
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Esmond Sr.: Have you got the nerve to tell me you don't want to marry my son for his money? Lorelei Lee: It's true. Esmond Sr.: Then what do you want to marry him for? Lorelei Lee: I want to marry him for YOUR money.
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Lorelei Lee: Don't you know that a man being rich is like a girl being pretty? You wouldn't marry a girl just because she's pretty, but my goodness, doesn't it help?
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Lady Beekman: It's a tiara. Lorelei Lee: You DO wear it on your head. I just LOVE finding new places to wear diamonds.
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Dorothy Shaw: Remember, honey, on your wedding day it's alright to say "yes."
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Lorelei Lee: [singing] We're just two little girls from Little Rock.
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Lorelei Lee: Excuse me, but what is the way to Europe, France? Dorothy Shaw: Honey, France is IN Europe. Lorelei Lee: Well who said it wasn't? Dorothy Shaw: Well... you wouldn't say you wanted to go to North America, Mexico. Lorelei Lee: If that's where I wanted to go, I would.
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Lorelei Lee: If you've nothing more to say, then pray, scat!
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Lorelei Lee: [Lorelei is holding a tiara] How do you put it around your neck? Dorothy Shaw: You don't, honey, it goes on your head! Lorelei Lee: You must think I was born yesterday. Dorothy Shaw: Well, sometimes there's just no other possible explanation.
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[Lorelei is stuck going through the porthole] Henry Spofford III: All right. I'll help you. I'll help you for two reasons. Lorelei Lee: Never mind the reasons. Just help me. Henry Spofford III: The first reason is I'm too young to be sent to jail. The second reason is you got a lot of animal magnetism.
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Dorothy Shaw: I've been wondering, what's your line, Mr. Malone? Ernie Malone: My line? My most effective one is to tell a girl she has hair like a tortured midnight, lips like a red couch in an ivory palace that I'm lonely and starved for affection. Then, I generally burst into tears. It seldom works.
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Mr. Esmond Sr.: Are you out of your mind? Ernie Malone: Mm-hmm, but I like it that way.
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Dorothy Shaw: Honey, did it ever occur to you that some people just don't care about money? Lorelei Lee: Please, we're talking serious here.
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Lorelei Lee: [sing] A kiss on the hand may be quite continental, / But diamonds are a girl's best friend. / A kiss may be grand, but it won't pay the rental on your humble flat. / Or help you at the automat. / Men grow cold as girls grow old, and we all lose our charm in the end. / But square-cut or pear-shaped, these rocks won't lost their shape. / Diamonds are a girl's best friend.
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Lorelei Lee: I always say a kiss on the hand might feel very good, but a diamond tiara lasts forever.
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Mr. Esmond Sr.: Say, they told me you were stupid! You certainly don't seem stupid to me! Lorelei Lee: I can be smart when I need to be.
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