Some Like It Hot (1959)

Marilyn Monroe: Sugar Kane Kowalczyk

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• Junior : Syncopators. Does that mean you play that very fast music... jazz?

  Sugar : Yeah. Real Hot.

  Junior : I guess some like it hot. I personally prefer classical music.

• Sugar : [on marrying well]  I don't care how rich he is, as long as he has a yacht, his own private railroad car, and his own toothpaste.

• Sugar : If my mother could only see me now.

  Joe : I hope *my* mother never finds out.

• Sugar : Real diamonds! They must be worth their weight in gold!

• Sugar : Water polo? Isn't that terribly dangerous?

  Junior : I'll say. I had two ponies drowned under me.

• Sugar : [pouring bourbon into paper cup]  Turn the lights on.

  Daphne : No lights, we don't want anyone to know we're having a party.

  Sugar : But I might spill some.

  Daphne : So spill it! Spills, thrills, laughs, and games. This may even turn out to be a surprise party.

  Sugar : What's the surprise?

  Daphne : Not yet.

  Sugar : When?

  Daphne : Better have a drink first.

  Sugar : There. That'll put hair on your chest.

  Daphne : No fair guessing.

• Sugar : [singing]  I wanna be loved by you, just you, nobody else but you. I wanna be loved by you alo-o-one. Boop boop e doo.

• Sugar : [admiring a large fish trophy]  What is it?

  Junior : It's a member of the herring family.

  Sugar : A herring? Isn't it amazing how they get those big fish into those little glass jars?

  Junior : They shrink when they're marinated.

• Sugar : Story of my life. I always get the fuzzy end of the lollipop.

• Sugar : Been waiting long?

  Junior : [gallantly]  It's not how long you wait, it's who you're waiting for!

• Junior : [Kissing]  I think you're on the right track.

  Sugar : I must be. Your glasses are beginning to steam up.

• Junior : Look, if all you're interested in is whether I am married or not...

  Sugar : Oh, I'm not interested at all.

  Junior : Well, I'm not.

  Sugar : That's very interesting!

• Sugar : I come from this musical family. My mother is a piano teacher and my father was a conductor.

  Joe : Where did he conduct?

  Sugar : On the Baltimore and Ohio.

• Sugar : Oh, Daphne, how can I ever repay you?

  Jerry : Oh, I can think of a million things.

  [Sugar gets into bed with him] 

  Jerry : And that's one of them!

• Joe : [apologizing because the motor boat will only move backwards]  I'm afraid it may take a little longer.

  Sugar : It's not how long it takes, it's who's taking you.

• Sugar : Oh Josephine! The most wonderful thing happened!

  Joe : What?

  Sugar : Guess.

  Joe : They repealed prohibition?

  Jerry : Oh come now, you can do better than that.

  Sugar : I met one of them.

  Joe : One of whom?

  Sugar : Shell Oil Junior. He's got millions, he's got glasses, he's got a yacht!

  Joe : You don't say.

  Jerry : He's not only got a yacht, he's got a bicycle!

• Sugar : [after running back to the room to tell Josephine about the millionaire, Joe's other alter ego, and finding she's not there]  Well I'll be back later.

  Jerry : Oh no you wait. I have a feeling she'll show up any minute.

  Sugar : Believe it or not, Josephine predicted the whole thing.

  Jerry : Yeah, this is one for Ripley.

  Sugar : Do you suppose she went shopping?

  Jerry : Shopping! That's it! Something tells me she's gonna come through that door in a brand new outfit!

• Joe : I never knew it could be like this!

  Sugar : Thank you.

  Joe : They told me I was kaput, finished, all washed up. And here you are making a chump out of all those experts.

  Sugar : Mineral baths, now really!

  Joe : Where did you learn to kiss like that?

  Sugar : I used to sell kisses for the milk fund.

• Sugar : He collects shells!

  Joe : Shells? Whatever for?

  Jerry : Oh, you know. The old shell game.

  Joe : Daphne, you're bothering us.

• [Jerry sees Joe impersonating a wealthy yachtsman to flirt with Sugar] 

  Sugar : [to Joe]  This is my friend Daphne, she's a Vassar girl.

  Daphne : I'm a what?

  Sugar : Or was it Bryn Mawr?

  Junior : [firmly to Jerry]  I heard a very sad story about a girl that went to Bryn Mawr. She squealed on her roommate... and they found her strangled with her own brassiere!

  Daphne : Yes, we've got to be very careful who we choose for a roommate.

• Sugar : Don't fight it.

• Sugar : It's me, Sugar!

• Sugar : [on the yacht Junior's pretending he owns]  Which is the port and which is the starboard?

  Junior : Well that depends. That depends on whether you're coming or going. I mean, *normally*, normally, the aft is on the other side of the stern. But - And that's the bridge, so you can get from one side of the boat to the other.

• Joe : You don't want me, Sugar. I'm a liar and a phony. A saxophone player. One of those no-goodniks you keep running away from.

  Sugar : I know, every time.

  Joe : Sugar, do yourself a favor. Go back to where the millionaires are, the sweet end of the lollipop, not the Cole slaw in the face, the old socks and the squeezed-out tube of toothpaste.

  Sugar : That's right. Pour it on. Talk me out of it.

  [She grabs him to kiss him]