Quotes from Howard Keel movies and TV shows

Wild Bill Hickok: That's a right-smart looking harness you got on there.

Bill Masen: Feel guilty, hmmm?
Christine Durrant: Maybe.
Bill Masen: You know why?
Christine Durrant: Why?
Bill Masen: Because you survived. Bettina, Coker and all the rest dead. And you're alive, and you wonder why.
Christine Durrant: That's exactly right.
Bill Masen: Yeah, I know the feeling. During the war, you get a ship shot out from underneath you. All your friends gone, and only a handful left. And you ask yourself "Why me? Why not someone better?"

Adam: Morning ma'am.
Lem's girlfriend: Morning backwoodsman.
Adam: Nice day for marrying.
Lem: Well, that's a right good idea.
Lem's girlfriend: Oh Lem, I thought you'd never ask me.

Adam: This is my brother Caleb.
Milly: How are you brother Caleb?
Adam: This is Milly, my wife.
Caleb: Your wife? Well, I'll be a monkey's uncle! Hey Dan, he did it, he got married.

Adam: Well, Pa used to say love is kind of like the measles. You only get it once. The older you are, the tougher it goes.

Adam: What do you call her?
Milly: I was thinking of some name like Hannah or Hagar or Hephzibah, picking up where your mother left off.
Adam: Hannah.
Milly: Hannah.
Adam: I got to thinking up at the cabin, about the baby. How I'd feel if someone came creeping in and carried her off. I'd string him up the nearest tree. I'd shoot him down as I would a thieving fox.

Cap'n Andy Hawks: You've met my wife, I believe.
Gaylord Ravenal: A repeated pleasure, Mrs. Hawks.
Cap'n Andy Hawks: And my daughter, Magnolia.
Gaylord Ravenal: Only in make believe.

Gaylord Ravenal: Captain and Mrs. Hawks, allow me. Ravenal. Gaylord Revenal, of the Tennessee Ravenals.

Gaylord Ravenal: Why do you want to be an actress?
Magnolia: Why? Well, I mean, well, the ordinary person wouldn't understand. I mean, that is, a person outside the profession.
Gaylord Ravenal: No? Well, you want to be an actress because it makes everything become true - every exciting thing you ever heard about, even if its make believe. Isn't that it?
Magnolia: Yes, that is it. How did you know?
Gaylord Ravenal: For instance, right now, you'd like to be Romeo and Juliet.

Magnolia: How are your others?
Gaylord Ravenal: Huh? What's that, honey?
Magnolia: Your other bets! Yesterday's and last night's and all those one last round before we break it up bets! Were they just as good?