Oklahoma! (1955)

Gene Nelson: Will Parker

Quotes 

• Will Parker : Now that I got that fifty dollars, you name the date.

  Ado Annie Carnes : August 15th.

  Will Parker : Why August 15th?

  Ado Annie Carnes : Because that was the first day I'se kissed!

  Will Parker : Oh was it? I didn't remember that!

  Ado Annie Carnes : You wasn't there.

• 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.

• 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 : 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.

• Will Parker : You ain't gonna think of that old peddler-man anymore, are ya?

  Ado Annie Carnes : Of course not. I never think of no one unless'n he's with me.

  Will Parker : Then I'll never leave your side.

  Ado Annie Carnes : Well, even if you never go away, can't you once't in awhile give me one of them Persian good-byes?

  Will Parker : Persian good-bye? Why, that ain't nothin' compared to Oklahoma hello.

  Ado Annie Carnes : Hello, Will!

• Will Parker : [singing]  They went and built a skyscraper seven stories high. 'Bout as high as a buildin' oughta grow.

• Will Parker : [singing]  Everything's up to date in Kansas City. They've gone about as fur as they can go.

• Ado Annie Carnes : [singing]  Supposing that we should have a third one?

  Will Parker : [singing]  He better look a lot like me.

  Ado Annie Carnes : [singing]  The spittin' image.

  Will Parker : [singing]  He better look a lot like me.

• Will Parker : Now that you're engaged to me, you got to stop havin' fun. I mean, with other fellas.

• Will Parker : [singing]  With me it's all or nothin'. Is it all or nothin' with you? It can't be in between. It can't be now and then. No half-and-half romance will do. I'm a one-woman man, home-lovin' type, all complete with slippers and pipe. Take me like I am or leave me be. If you can't give me all, give me nothin'. And nothin's what you'll get from me.

  Ado Annie Carnes : [singing]  Not even somethin'?

  Will Parker : [singing]  Nothing's what you'll get from me.

  Ado Annie Carnes : [singing]  It can't be in between?

  Will Parker : Uh-uh.

  Ado Annie Carnes : [singing]  It can't be now and then?

  Will Parker : [singing]  No half-and-half romance will do.

• 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.