Quotes from Debbie Reynolds movies and TV shows

Agnes Hurley: The only reason he married me was that my father, God rest his soul, met him one day at the union hall. They was both house painters, ya know. And he said, "Hurley, I'll give ya $300 if you'll marry my daughter." And he said he would, and he did.
Jane Hurley: I never heard that story, Ma.
Agnes Hurley: Oh, sure, sure. 'Course I'm exaggeratin' a little, but... but that's the gist of it.

Charlotte: Chin up, chin up / Everybody loves a happy face / Wear it, share it / It'll brighten up the darkest place / Twinkle, sparkle / Let a little sunshine in / You'll be on the right side, looking at the bright side / Up with your chinny-chin-chin.

Charlotte: Trust me, Wilbur. People are very gullible. They'll believe anything they see in print.

Aggie Cromwell: Magic is really very simple, all you've got to do is want something and then let yourself have it.

Aggie Cromwell: Being normal is vastly overrated.

Marnie Cromwell: A pentagram. Lon Chaney had one of these on his hand when he was bit by that werewolf.
Aggie Cromwell: I've always said that the movies could teach us so much.

Aggie Cromwell: Bubble, bubble, toil, and trouble.

Mariette Larkin: I'll bet you made the doctor show his license before he slapped your bottom.

Beatrice Henderson: I'm sorry, John. I wasn't listening.

Beatrice Henderson: I love you.
John Henderson: I know you think you do, Mother.

Beatrice Henderson: We're not intimate dear. We just have sex occasionally.

Don Lockwood: What's your lofty mission in life that lets you sneer at my humble profession?
Kathy Selden: I'm an actress.
Don Lockwood: What?
Kathy Selden: On the stage.
Don Lockwood: Oh, on the stage. Well, I'd like to see you act. What are you in right now? I could brush up on my English, or bring along an interpreter. That is if they'd let in a movie actor.
Kathy Selden: I'm not in a play right now, but I will be. I'm going to New York...
Don Lockwood: Oh, you're going to New York! And then someday, we'll all hear of you, won't we? Kathy Selden as Juliet, as Lady Macbeth, as King Lear! You'll have to wear a beard for that one, of course.

Molly Brown: Sure I may be tuckered, and I may give out, but I won't give in.

Molly Brown: What's that mean? Best regards?
'Leadville' Johnny Brown: Well it means not just 'regards', but best regards.

Shamus Tobin: Serve the Lord and a hot breakfast, then you can look for your Irish Catholic man with the roof that don't leak.
Molly Brown: He's going to have to be more than an Irish Catholic.
Shamus Tobin: What more is there?
Molly Brown: Well if he's going to crawl in next to me, he's going to have to be the richest Irish Catholic next to the Pope.

Molly Brown: Nobody wants to see me down like I wants to see me up.

Molly Brown: It's not the money I love, it's the not having it I hate.