Quotes

Sun Valley Serenade

Vivian Dawn: I've put up with all I'm going to from that Scandinavian hillbilly!
Karen Benson: Hillbilly?

Ted Scott: Look, I said I'd take a child, I didn't say I'd take a... well, she's too big for her age!
Customs Officer: Is that your signature?
Ted Scott: Well, sure, but...
Customs Officer: She's a refugee like the rest, and right here, you guarantee that you'll take good care of her, and that she'll not become a public charge. She's your responsibility now Mister.

Nifty Allen: [as he plummets down a snowy mountainside on skis, totally out of control] Calling Doctor Kildare - prepare for surgery!

Miss Carstairs: Pardon me, could you spare ten cents for the Skiers Aid Society?
Nifty Allen: There you are.
Miss Carstairs: Thanks. Say, you know I go for you.
Nifty Allen: You do? Haven't you got a boyfriend?
Miss Carstairs: I got 18 boyfriends!
Nifty Allen: 18? All told?
Miss Carstairs: No. One kept his mouth shut.

Ted Scott: I didn't know her eyes were blue. I always figured they were kind of hazel.
Phil Corey: Ah, get her off your mind, will ya. I've been dreamin' about her for days.
Nifty Allen: She's the kind of girls I've been dreamin' about, but, you see the kind I get.

Nifty Allen: Here Officer, Number 36. Where is it?
Customs Officer: Right here.
Nifty Allen: [expecting a child refugee, instead its a young woman] Thirty-six? There's something wrong. That must be her chest measurements.

Karen Benson: I've found him.
Ted Scott: Found who?
Karen Benson: The man I'm going to marry.
Ted Scott: Already? Oh, gee, that's wonderful. I'm sure you'll be very happy.
Karen Benson: Oh, you will be too. You'll make a wonderful husband.
Ted Scott: Thanks. I'm... What?
Karen Benson: It's you.
Ted Scott: Me? Now wait a minute.
Karen Benson: Oh, I was sure of it when I first saw you, and just now when you played, I knew I was right.
Ted Scott: Listen, honey, I...
Karen Benson: I said to myself, "You owe him so much. He's been so wonderful to ya. That's how you can repay him."
Ted Scott: That's a very nice thought, but you don't have to carry it that far. Maybe in Norway they marry to pay off the mortgage or something, but here its different.

Nifty Allen: Now, what would you do in Sun Valley where the temperatures 106 below zero and the snow's up to your neck.
Karen Benson: Snow? Is it like that?
Nifty Allen: Everyday, except when it's a blizzard, then it's worse.

Ted Scott: How did you get in here?
Karen Benson: I just told the man at the door that I was living with you; so, he brought me here. That's all. Anything wrong?

Karen Benson: Ted doesn't like snow either, does he?
Nifty Allen: Are you kiddin'? He has Eskimo blood. The way he shoots around on those turned-up bed slats, you'd think they were roller skates. Up and down the mountain. Woo-woo!
Karen Benson: And Miss Dawn, she likes to ski too?
Nifty Allen: Her? You couldn't get her near an electric icebox.

Phil Corey: Rufugees' numbers are selected as the applications come in. You never know who you'll get. You got me. Don't you like me?

Ted Scott: Karen could teach you in no time. She knows all the tricks, even taught me a few.

Chorus: [singing] In Sweden and in Norway, when concertinas play, You sing hi-li, you sing hi-lo, Your heart is young and gay...

Phil Corey: Boy, is she burnin'!
Nifty Allen: What do you mean, burnin'? You could ski right down the ice on her back.

Chorus: [singing] It happened In Sun Valley not so very long ago, There were sunbeams in the snow, and a twinkle in your eye...

Chorus: [singing] Say, did you ever dance the kiss polka? You can steal a kiss to this polka, She'll be shy when first you try, Then by and by, She'll say, "Yah, by yumping yiminy"...

Nifty Allen: Ah, honey, that was immense. You gotta teach me how to do that pretzel dance.

Chorus: [singing] It's a dance that you'll be wild about, You kiss, kiss, kiss till you're all kissed out...

Nifty Allen: Hey, suppose they have to stay in a ski hut all night? That's be terrible. Karen'd be compromised and I'm engaged to her. Think of my position.
Vivian Dawn: I am thinking and it isn't of *your* position!

Nifty Allen: We'll all have a Sauerbraten mit Spatzen, cheesecake und beer. How's that?
Phil Corey: Sounds terrible. I'll have a steak.

Karen Benson: I wish you all the happiness in the world. Til lykke - that means good luck.

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