Singin' in the Rain (1952)
Millard Mitchell: R.F. Simpson
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Quotes
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Cosmo Brown : Talking pictures, that means I'm out of a job. At last I can start suffering and write that symphony.
R.F. Simpson : You're not out of job, we're putting you in as head of our new music department.
Cosmo Brown : Oh, thanks, R.F.! At last I can stop suffering and write that symphony.
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R.F. Simpson : Don, it'll be a sensation! "Lamont and Lockwood: they talk!"
Lina Lamont : [with a voice to peel paint] Well of *course* we talk. Don't everybody?
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Lina Lamont : [after demanding Kathy Selden continue as her voice double and not be given bigger parts] After all, I'm still more important to the studio than she is.
R.F. Simpson : Lina, I wouldn't do that to her in a million years. Why, you'd be taking her career away from her. People just don't do things like that.
Lina Lamont : People? I ain't "people"! I am a...
[reads from newspaper]
Lina Lamont : "a shimmering, glowing star in the cinema firmament." It says so...
[hands newspaper to R.F]
Lina Lamont : right there.
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[after Cosmo gives a good idea]
R.F. Simpson : Cosmo, remind me to give you a raise.
[turns around]
Cosmo Brown : Oh, R.F.
R.F. Simpson : Yes?
Cosmo Brown : Give me a raise.
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[after the demonstration of a talking picture]
R.F. Simpson : What do you think of it, Dexter?
Rosco : It'll never amount to a thing.
Olga Mara : [with heavy, snotty accent] Its vulgar!
Cosmo Brown : That's what they said about the horseless carriage.
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R.F. Simpson : Lina, you were gorgeous!
Cosmo Brown : Yeah, Lina, you looked pretty good for a girl.
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Rosco : [after seeing the film screw-up] The sound, its out of synchronization!
R.F. Simpson : [irritated] Well tell them to fix it!
Rosco : [while getting up] Yes sir, fix it!
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Rosco : [after a take] We're really rolling, Mr. Simpson.
R.F. Simpson : Well, you can stop rolling at once.
Rosco : What?
R.F. Simpson : Don, Lina.
Rosco : Ok, everybody save it!
R.F. Simpson : Save it? Tell them to go home. We're shutting down for a few weeks.
Rosco : What?
R.F. Simpson : Well, don't just stand there. Tell them!
Rosco : Everybody go until further notice! What is it?
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Don Lockwood : Now listen, R.F., the owner of the Coconut Grove may do what Lina tells him to, but you're the head of this studio.
R.F. Simpson : That's right, I'm the head of this studio. She's hired! But don't let Lina know she's on the lot.
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Rosco : It's just a freak!
R.F. Simpson : Yeah, what a freak. We should have such a freak at this studio.
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R.F. Simpson : Lina, did you send this stuff out?
Lina Lamont : I gave an exclusive story to every paper in town.
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R.F. Simpson : I can't quite visualise it, I'd have to see it on film.
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Don Lockwood : What's the matter R.F.?
R.F. Simpson : 'The Jazz Singer', that's whats the matter, 'The Jazz Singer'.
Cosmo Brown : [singing] Oh, my darling, little Mammy, Down in Alabamy...
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Rosco : Now, wait a second Mr. Simpson, talking pictures! You should wait...
R.F. Simpson : Every studio is jumping on the bandwagon, Dexter. All the theaters are putting in sound equipment. We don't want to be left out of it.
Don Lockwood : We don't know anything about this gadget.
R.F. Simpson : What do you have to know? Its a picture. You do what you always did. Just add talking to it.