Flo:
Lucky my mother hated breast-feeding or I'd've been alcoholic before I could walk.
--Shirley Jones (as ) in The Happy Ending
--Shirley Jones (as ) in The Happy Ending
Julie Jordan:
[singing] And, what's the use of wonderin' / If the endin' will be sad? / He's your feller and you love him / There's nothin' more to say.
--Shirley Jones (as Julie Jordan) in Carousel
--Shirley Jones (as Julie Jordan) in Carousel
Laurey:
Curly! You're sittin' on the stove!
Curly: Yeouch!
[Jumps up, feels the stove]
Curly: Cold as a hunk of ice.
Laurey: Wish it would've burned a hole in your pants.
--Shirley Jones (as Laurey) in Oklahoma!
Curly: Yeouch!
[Jumps up, feels the stove]
Curly: Cold as a hunk of ice.
Laurey: Wish it would've burned a hole in your pants.
--Shirley Jones (as Laurey) in Oklahoma!
Lulu Bains:
Oh, he gave me special instructions back of the pulpit Christmas Eve. He got to howlin' "Repent! Repent!" and I got to moanin' "Save me! Save me!" and the first thing I know he rammed the fear of God into me so fast I never heard my old man's footsteps!
--Shirley Jones (as Lulu Bains) in Elmer Gantry
--Shirley Jones (as Lulu Bains) in Elmer Gantry
Marian Paroo:
The librarian hasn't felt much like doing research lately, but she did plenty when you first came here.
Harold Hill: What about?
Marian Paroo: Professor Harold Hill. Gary Conservatory of Music, gold medal class of '05. Harold, there wasn't any Gary Conservatory of Music in '05.
Harold Hill: Why, there most certainly w...
Marian Paroo: Because the town wasn't even built until '06. I tore this page out of an Indiana Journal. I was going to use it against you, but now I give to you with all my heart.
--Shirley Jones (as Marian Paroo) in The Music Man
Harold Hill: What about?
Marian Paroo: Professor Harold Hill. Gary Conservatory of Music, gold medal class of '05. Harold, there wasn't any Gary Conservatory of Music in '05.
Harold Hill: Why, there most certainly w...
Marian Paroo: Because the town wasn't even built until '06. I tore this page out of an Indiana Journal. I was going to use it against you, but now I give to you with all my heart.
--Shirley Jones (as Marian Paroo) in The Music Man
[In song]
Marian Paroo: There was love all around, but I never heard it singing. No I never heard it at all, Till There Was You.
--Shirley Jones (as Marian Paroo) in The Music Man
Marian Paroo: There was love all around, but I never heard it singing. No I never heard it at all, Till There Was You.
--Shirley Jones (as Marian Paroo) in The Music Man
[last lines]
Eddie: It's Regent 4-8599
Tom Corbett: [Dials phone]
Eddie: [leaves apartment, rings Elizabeth's doorbell twice] You're phone's ringing.
Elizabeth Marten: What?
Eddie: Your telephone.
Elizabeth Marten: No it's not, Eddie.
[Phone rings]
Eddie: You better pick it up, it could be important, very important. Hurry.
Elizabeth Marten: Hello?
--Shirley Jones (as ) in The Courtship of Eddie's Father
Eddie: It's Regent 4-8599
Tom Corbett: [Dials phone]
Eddie: [leaves apartment, rings Elizabeth's doorbell twice] You're phone's ringing.
Elizabeth Marten: What?
Eddie: Your telephone.
Elizabeth Marten: No it's not, Eddie.
[Phone rings]
Eddie: You better pick it up, it could be important, very important. Hurry.
Elizabeth Marten: Hello?
--Shirley Jones (as ) in The Courtship of Eddie's Father