Kiss Me Kate (1953)
Howard Keel: Fred Graham 'Petruchio'
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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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Petruchio : Go. Get thee to a notary.
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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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Lois Lane : How am I doing, sweetie? I mean, Mr. Graham.
Fred Graham : Very nice. Go to your dressing room and relax until curtain time. Let your mind go blank.
Lois Lane : Whatever thou sayest.
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Fred Graham : You're sure the donkey's housebroken?
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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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Fred Graham : Who are you?
Lippy : Hey, fine-looking fellow.
Slug : Clean-cut.
Fred Graham : What are you doing backstage?
Lippy : What a figure!
Slug : What a profill.
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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 : 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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Lucentio : What happy wind blows you to Padua from old Verona?
Petruchio : Such wind as scatters young men through the world to seek their fortunes. And you?
Lucentio : I came to study.
Petruchio : I am glad that you thus combine your resolve to suck the sweets of sweet philosophy - the mathematics and the botany. Fall to them as your stomach serves. No profit grows where is no pleasure taken. In brief, sir, study. As for me...
[singing]
Petruchio : I've come to wive it wealthily in Padua, If wealthily then happily in Padua. If my wife has a bag of gold, Do I care if the bag be old? I've come to wive it wealthily in Padua...
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Fred Graham : Keep on acting the way you're doing, Miss Vanessi, and I'll give you the paddling of your life, and on-stage.
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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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Petruchio : [singing] And sweet Lucretia, so young and gay-ee? What scandalous doin's in the ruins of Pompeii!
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Petruchio : Carouse full-measure. Be mad, be merry, or go hang yourselves. But for my bonny Kate, she must with me. I will be master of what is mine own. She is my goods, my chattels, my horse, my ox, my anything.
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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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Petruchio : Why, there's a wench! Come on and kiss me, Kate.
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Fred Graham : That's all I need - a blind stage manager.
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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.