Kiss Me Kate (1953)
Kathryn Grayson: Lilli Vanessi 'Katherine'
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Quotes
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Lilli Vanessi : Do you really think *I* could play the shrew?
Fred Graham : You'd make a perfect shrew!
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[repeated line]
Lilli Vanessi : You louse!
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Fred Graham : You can't eat before a performance. It gives you indigestion.
Lilli Vanessi : It's my stomach, thank you. Bring it in, Suzanne!
Fred Graham : You'll not burp during my love scenes. Take it away.
Lilli Vanessi : Suzanne, don't you dare.
Suzanne : Let's make up our mind, shall we?
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Fred Graham : [phone rings] Well, pick it up. It's probably that cowboy.
Lilli Vanessi : He is not a cowboy. He's a cattle baron.
Fred Graham : Cattle baron, huh? What's his crest? A hamburger smothered with onions?
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Lilli Vanessi : I got a job reading tea leaves at the Automat.
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Fred Graham : [singing] Let us drink, Liebchen mein
Lilli Vanessi : In the moonlight divine
Fred Graham , Lilli Vanessi : To the joy of our dream come true Wunderbar! Wunderbar!
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Lilli Vanessi : That was the season we played the Barter Theatre in Virginia - and they gave you a ham.
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Lilli Vanessi : I'm not nervous now and I'm not going to whoops. And I'll never call you a louse in public again. Never.
Fred Graham : You will, my sweet. You will.
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Katherine : [singing] Oh I hate men. If thou shouldst wed a businessman, be wary, oh, be wary, He'll tell you he's detained in town on business necessary, His bus'ness is the bus'ness with his pretty secretary...
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Petruchio : Sunday comes apace and we will have rings and things in fine array. And kiss me, Kate.
[Kate slaps Petruchio]
Fred Graham : All right, Miss Vanessi. You asked for it and you're going to get it.
[proceeds to rapidly spanking Miss Vanessi, aka 'Katherine', on stage, in front of the audience]
Lilli Vanessi : Fred, what are you doing? Stop it! Stop it!
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Lilli Vanessi : Suzanne! Suzanne! Where's that ice bag?
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Lilli Vanessi : I can't sit down. I said, I can't sit down!
[Suzanne enters starts to put the ice bag on Lili's forehead]
Lilli Vanessi : That is not where it hurts.
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Petruchio : Katherine, I - I charge thee, tell these headstrong women what duties they owe their lords and husbands.
Katherine : I am ashamed that women are so simple to offer war where they should kneel for peace. Or seek to rule, supremacy and sway when they are bound to serve, love - and obey. Why are our bodies soft and weak and smooth unapt to toil and trouble in the world - but that our soft conditions and our hearts should well agree with our external parts? So hold your temper, wives, and - and meekly put your hand beneath your lord and husband's foot. In token of which duty, if he please my hand is ready. Ready may it do him ease.
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Lilli Vanessi : I want to go where no one would ever find me. I want to go to Texas.
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Fred Graham : [singing] So taunt me, and hurt me.
Lilli Vanessi : [singing] Deceive me. Desert me.
Fred Graham , Lilli Vanessi : [singing] I'm yours till I die.