Here are a few of our favorite lines from Some Like It Hot.
Sugar Kane (
Marilyn Monroe
):
"It's the story of my life. I always get the fuzzy end of the lollipop."
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Jerry (
Jack Lemmon
):
"Look at that! Look at how she moves! That's just like Jell-O on springs."
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Joe (Tony Curtis):
"But you're not a girl, you're a guy. And why would a guy want to marry a guy?"
Jerry (
Jack Lemmon
):
"Security."
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Jerry (
Jack Lemmon
):
"We wouldn't be caught dead with men. Rough, hairy beasts. Eight hands. And they … they all just want one thing from a girl."
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Sugar Kane (
Marilyn Monroe
):
"Real diamonds! They must be worth their weight in gold!"
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Jerry/Daphne (
Jack Lemmon
):
"You don't understand, Osgood! I'm a man."
Osgood E. Fielding III (Joe E. Brown):
"Well, nobody's perfect."
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Jerry (
Jack Lemmon
):
"I'm a girl. I'm a girl. I'm a girl."
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Sugar Kane (
Marilyn Monroe
):
"I have this thing about saxophone players, especially tenor sax … I don't know what it is but they just curdle me."
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Sugar Kane (
Marilyn Monroe
):
"They get those weak eyes from reading - you know, those long tiny little columns in the Wall Street Journal."
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