Oklahoma! (1955)

Eddie Albert: Ali Hakim

Quotes 

• Ali Hakim : I wanted to marry her when I saw the moonlight shining on the barrel of her father's shotgun.

• Will Parker : I don't know what to make of you! You're too purty to be a skunk! Too thin to be a snake! To little to be a man, and too big to be a mouse! I reckon you're a rat!

  Ali Hakim : That's logical.

• Ado Annie Carnes : He called me his Persian kitten!

  Carnes : what'd you call her that for?

  Ali Hakim : Ohh - I don't remember...

  Ado Annie Carnes : I do! He said I's like a Persian kitten cause they is the cats with the soft round tails!

  Carnes : [cocking his gun]  That's enough. In this country that better be a proposal of marriage.

• Ali Hakim : It's a wonderful thing to be married. I got a brother in Persia got six wives.

  Ado Annie Carnes : Six wives all at once?

  Will Parker : Why, sure. That's the way they do in them countries.

  Ali Hakim : Not always; I got a brother in Persia only got one wife. He's a bachelor.

• Ali Hakim : You'd hardly ever see your daughter no more!

  Carnes : That'd be all right. Just take care of her, son.

• Ali Hakim : Hey, hey, hey! What are you doing?

  Will Parker : I'm gonna keep Ado Annie from killin' your wife.

  Ali Hakim : Mind your own business.

• Ali Hakim : Oh, I did not say that.

  Ado Annie Carnes : Oh, yes, you did.

  Ali Hakim : No, I did not.

  Carnes : Are you trying to make my daughter out to be a liar?

  Ali Hakim : Oh, no, no, no, no. I was only trying to make clear to you what a liar I am, if she is telling the truth.

• Ado Annie Carnes : Ali, Laurey and me been having an argument.

  Ali Hakim : About what, baby?

  Ado Annie Carnes : About what you meant when you said that about driving with me to the end of the world.

  Ali Hakim : Well, I didn't really mean to the end of the world.

  Ado Annie Carnes : Well, then how far did you want to go?

  Ali Hakim : About as far as say, uh, Claremore.

  Ado Annie Carnes : What's at Claremore?

  Ali Hakim : The hotel. In front is a veranda, inside is the lobby, and upstairs, baby, might be paradise.

  Ado Annie Carnes : I thought they's just bedrooms.

  Ali Hakim : For you and me, baby, paradise.

• Ali Hakim : Look, Annie, there is a man who loves you like nothing never loved nobody. That's the man for you, Will Parker.

  Ado Annie Carnes : Oh, yeah. Well, I like Will a lot.

  Ali Hakim : Oh, he's a fine fellow. He's strong like an ox. He's young, handsome.

  Ado Annie Carnes : Oh, I love him, all right, I guess.

  Ali Hakim : Of course you do. And you love those clear blue eyes of his, and the way his mouth wrinklies up when he smiles.

  Ado Annie Carnes : Do you love him too?

  Ali Hakim : I love him because he will make my Ado Annie happy.

• Ado Annie Carnes : How long you been married?

  Ali Hakim : Four days. Four days with that laugh should count like a golden wedding.

• Ado Annie Carnes : That's Will Parker. Promise me you won't fight him!

  Ali Hakim : Why fight? I never saw the man before. I fight only my friends.

• Ali Hakim : Here, take a look at these postcards.

  Jud Fry : I'm sick of them things. I want me a real woman. I'm tired of these pictures of women.

  Ali Hakim : Well, throw them away! Buy some new ones! If you get tired of a woman, what can you do? Nothing. You just keep getting tireder and tireder.

• Ali Hakim : Good-bye, baby. I will show you how we say good-bye in Persia.

  Ado Annie Carnes : That was good-bye?

  Ali Hakim : We have an old song in Persia. It says... One good-bye... is never enough.

  Ado Annie Carnes : Hello, Will. Ali Hakim's saying good-bye.

  Ali Hakim : Ah, Will, I want to say good-bye to you too.

  Will Parker : No, you don't. I just saw the last one.