Cleve Van Valen:
From the first moment I saw you I've known that I couldn't live without you.
Lilith 'Lily' Prescott: Well... I'd hate to be the cause of your death, Mr. Van Valen.
--Debbie Reynolds (as Lilith Prescott) in How the West Was Won
Lilith 'Lily' Prescott: Well... I'd hate to be the cause of your death, Mr. Van Valen.
--Debbie Reynolds (as Lilith Prescott) in How the West Was Won
Don Lockwood:
Which of my pictures have you seen?
Kathy: I don't remember. I saw one once.
Don Lockwood: You saw one once?
Kathy: Yes, I think you were dueling and there was a girl - Lina Lamont. But I don't go to the movies much. If you've seen one you've seen them all.
Don Lockwood: Thank you.
Kathy: Oh, no offense. Movies are entertaining enough for the masses but the personalities on the screen just don't impress me. I mean they don't talk, they don't act, the just make a lot of dumb show. Well, you know
[demonstrates]
Kathy: like that.
Don Lockwood: You mean like what I do?
Kathy: Well, yes!
--Debbie Reynolds (as Kathy Selden) in Singin' in the Rain
Kathy: I don't remember. I saw one once.
Don Lockwood: You saw one once?
Kathy: Yes, I think you were dueling and there was a girl - Lina Lamont. But I don't go to the movies much. If you've seen one you've seen them all.
Don Lockwood: Thank you.
Kathy: Oh, no offense. Movies are entertaining enough for the masses but the personalities on the screen just don't impress me. I mean they don't talk, they don't act, the just make a lot of dumb show. Well, you know
[demonstrates]
Kathy: like that.
Don Lockwood: You mean like what I do?
Kathy: Well, yes!
--Debbie Reynolds (as Kathy Selden) in Singin' in the Rain
Holly LeMaise:
Every time I think of an audience out there, I start getting butterflies.
Father Conroy: All performers get butterflies.
Holly LeMaise: But mine are wearing Army shoes, Father!
--Debbie Reynolds (as Holly LeMaise aka Conroy) in Say One for Me
Father Conroy: All performers get butterflies.
Holly LeMaise: But mine are wearing Army shoes, Father!
--Debbie Reynolds (as Holly LeMaise aka Conroy) in Say One for Me
Kathy Selden:
[sings cheerfully] Here we are! Sunset and Camden!
--Debbie Reynolds (as Kathy Selden) in Singin' in the Rain
--Debbie Reynolds (as Kathy Selden) in Singin' in the Rain
Kathy:
[picks up a cake] Here's one thing I learned from the movies!
[Throws it at Don but hits Lina]
--Debbie Reynolds (as Kathy Selden) in Singin' in the Rain
[Throws it at Don but hits Lina]
--Debbie Reynolds (as Kathy Selden) in Singin' in the Rain
Mariette Larkin:
I'll bet you made the doctor show his license before he slapped your bottom!
--Debbie Reynolds (as Mariette Larkin) in The Mating Game
--Debbie Reynolds (as Mariette Larkin) in The Mating Game
Molly Brown:
[in France] Here I'm pleasant, at home I'm vulgar, I guess it's like here you eat snails, at home you step on them.
--Debbie Reynolds (as Molly Brown) in The Unsinkable Molly Brown
--Debbie Reynolds (as Molly Brown) in The Unsinkable Molly Brown
Molly Brown:
[reading the ring] "Always remember two things I love you and the name of the bank."
--Debbie Reynolds (as Molly Brown) in The Unsinkable Molly Brown
--Debbie Reynolds (as Molly Brown) in The Unsinkable Molly Brown
