Bye Bye Birdie (1963)
Janet Leigh: Rosie DeLeon
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Quotes
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Rose DeLeon : I must be the prized dope of all-time... thinking I could pry you away from your mama's ever-lovin' tentacles.
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Rose DeLeon : Well we could sure use the money. Any day now we'll have another mouth to feed.
Ed Sullivan : Rosie, you're not even married.
Rose DeLeon : His mother!
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Rose DeLeon : [singing] Everything is Rosie... cha-cha-cha! 'Cause my name is Rosie... si si si!
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Borov : And for you, I will not go too fast.
Rose DeLeon : We shall see!
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Rose DeLeon : [after Albert hears his mother calling him] Boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy gets mother. Yeesh!
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Ed Sullivan : What's our using Birdie on the show got to do with you?
Rose DeLeon : Well, let's face it, I'm a scheming woman. I have a promotion idea that'll knock you out! If you buy it, I want a little favor.
Ed Sullivan : Alright, let's try it out for size.
Rose DeLeon : How'd you like a terrific build up before the show that'll have every TV set tuned into you next Sunday?
Bob Precht : We will have. After all, we've got the Moscow Ballet and Birdie.
Rose DeLeon : This is bigger.
Ed Sullivan : Bigger?
Rose DeLeon : Before Conrad Birdie goes in the Army, he bestows a farewell kiss on all the swooning girls that worship him - on your TV show!
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Rose DeLeon : I'm about to make some gaga little goof a queen.
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Rose DeLeon : Oh, Marge, it's amazing what a woman has to do to get a man to marry her.
Marge - Birdie's Secretary : You mean you doped Albert's mother?
Rose DeLeon : No. But, if this doesn't work, that's my next move.
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Albert Peterson : You owe me nothing, even though you were molded by me.
Rose DeLeon : Molded?
Albert Peterson : Yeah. Like Eliza Doolittle got molded from Pygmalion.
Rose DeLeon : I was molded?
Albert Peterson : What were you when I found you anyway? Hostess at La Casa Enchilada Taco and Tamale Shop.
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Albert Peterson : Suicide is for cowards. I don't desert the woman I love.
Rose DeLeon : Oh, Albert, I'm sorry. I should have known.
Albert Peterson : Mama would never get over it.
Rose DeLeon : Mama?
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Albert Peterson : I don't care what Sullivan pays you. No woman is supporting Albert Peterson.
Rose DeLeon : Oh, you're not listening, darling.
Albert Peterson : I am not a gigolo!
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Albert Peterson : I keep tellin' ya, take a taxi.
Mae Peterson : Taxis? Taxis are for my successful son. A dirty crowded subway is good enough for a mother. Mother's nothin' nowadays. Who's that?
Albert Peterson : Mommy, you know Rose DeLeon. And guess what?
Mae Peterson : This is that - pretty Rose DeLeon? Oh, I don't believe it. Rose, what happened to ya? You had a fatal sickness or somethin'?
Rose DeLeon : It's nice to see you again.
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Rose DeLeon : You really are a wonderful dancer.
Claude Paisley : Oh, I don't know. When one's heart sings, one's feet takes wings.
Rose DeLeon : Oh, how lyrical. Is that Shelley or Keats?
Claude Paisley : That, my dear, is Paisley.
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Rose DeLeon : Faithless men like Albert and Hugo, they're all alike - from puberty to stupidity - from Benedict Arnold to Mussolini. Men. We laugh at them, right?
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Rose DeLeon : Men. They're only out to use us, Kim.
Kim McAfee : I know. Hugo's used me since we were freshman.
Rose DeLeon : All those years I wasted on Albert. Rosie the dependable one, Rosie the patient one. Rosie the good girl. I know it sounds old-tashioned, but I'm not ashamed to admit it. I'm still a good girl.
Kim McAfee : Rose?
Rose DeLeon : Hmm?
Kim McAfee : So am I.
Rose DeLeon : No kidding?
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Rose DeLeon : Oh, won't you, please, maestro? To improve our relations?
Borov : You are pretty enough to be un-American.
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Rose DeLeon : I was living in fantasy, telling myself you were serious.
Albert Peterson : Oh, Rosie, I was. I am! In here. I've thought and thought about marrying you every day, a lot of nights too.
Rose DeLeon : I've spent six years on Project Albert.
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Rose DeLeon : Okay, buster. Set 'em up! Double scotch and gin on the side and, uh, a bourbon chaser. Make that a triple chaser, and bring on the dancing boys!
