The Girl Most Likely (1957)

Jane Powell: Dodie

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• Dodie : Every day I read about girls marrying rich fellas. Every day.

  Pete : You've got one chance in a million.

  Dodie : Well, of course, the odds are against any two people meeting each other. There are two billion people in the world and if a girl meets any fella it's an accident.

• Dodie : [Referring to her boyfriend Buzz]  He's even considering marrying me.

  Pete : Maybe you ought to marry me instread.

  Dodie : You shouldn't say things like that.

  Pete : Why not?

  Dodie : We hardly even know each other.

  Pete : Sometimes people know each other better in one night than they do... in two weeks.

• Dodie : It's as though I were to say to you, "don't be ambitious, don't plan for tomorrow, don't keep looking ahead."

  Pete : I don't.

  Dodie : You don't?

  Pete : Nope. A fella starts worrying about tomorrow, he misses too much livin' today.

  Dodie : Well, I think you're very peculiar.

  Pete : Maybe.

• Marge : Dodie, you know some day when I'm not around, you're going to walk right off the end of a pier or something.

  Dodie : [daydreaming]  I wonder what it would be like?

  Marge : Wet.

  Dodie : No, no. I mean to be rich on a yacht like that. Rich rich.

  Marge : You know what? That's one thing you and I will never have to worry about.

  Dodie : I can dream, can't I.

  Marge : Oh, you sure can. Better than most people.

• Dodie : The rich get richer and the poor get children.

• Dodie : No.

  Buzz : No?

  Dodie : Oh, look, I don't mean no, exactly. I just mean no for right now.

• Buzz : Dodie, if you feel like saying no, then, why don't you just say no.

  Dodie : I don't feel like saying no!

  Buzz : Then why don't you say yes?

  Dodie : Because I want to think about it.

  Buzz : Oh, Dodie, please say yes. I need you!

• Buzz : Oh, oh, you just made me the happiest girl in the world!

  Dodie : Girl?

  Buzz : I mean - I hope you are! Because, I'm not. I am. I don't know what I'm sayin'.

• Dodie : Who won the bet?

  Dodie's Pop : Well, Buzz, as usual. That boy's awful lucky.

  Dodie : And *very* persistent.

• Pete : Sometimes, even though you don't want to, maybe you have to, so, you might as well want to.

  Dodie : Well, if you don't want to and you don't have to, then you just don't'; because, you don't want to.

• Marge : A mechanic? What happened?

  Dodie : Right bait, wrong fella.

• Dodie : [singing]  I know my brave is as brave as a brave can be, They call him Crazy Horse the Cherokee, I don't mind scalps all over the place, I don't mind paint all over his face, Cause I'm just crazy about Crazy Horse, you see, And Crazy Horse is crazy over me, When I first saw him dancin' up the pow-wow, I ran right up to him and hollered: How! Wow...

• Dodie : [singing]  What's a poor squaw gonna do? Ugh! Ugh-ugh!

• Dodie : That's what I like about you: everyday is payday.

• Neil Patterson, Jr. : That's the way I want you to feel.

  Dodie : Well, I don't feel any way! I mean, I don't know what way I feel. So, I don't see how you can be glad how I feel.

• Dodie : [singing]  Mexican take life slow, Mexican not work day and night, Maybe not make much dough, But Mexican clothes are nice and bright...