Angie Duke Quotes in The Happiest Millionaire (1967)

Angie Duke: [singing] Are we dancing, are we really here? Is this feeling something real, or will it disappear? Are we dancing, does the music soar? Was this lovely song I hear, ever heard before? Are your eyes confessing things I alone can see? Or is my imagination flying away with me? Are we dancing? Say, we really are! Then I'll know that I, reached into the sky, I reached into the sky, and touched a star!

Angie Duke: Cordy, you and I are going to elope!

Mrs. Duke: Over my dead body!

Angie Duke: Only if absolutely necessary, Mother.

Angie Duke: [singing] There's a shining city, west of here, where dreams are booming into gear... It's no humdrum nine-to-five town; it's a growing, going, bright-alive town! Golden sparks light up the skies there, like a thousand Fourth-of-Julys there! How I want to stake a claim in, roll my sleeves and make a name in... Detroit!

Miss Cordelia Biddle: Detroit?

Angie Duke: Michigan!

[sings]

Angie Duke: You can hear it humming, see it coming, feel it everywhere you go! It's tomorrow morning, the future dawning with a bright and shining glow! It's a land where golden chariots are molded out of dreams... Detroit! Detroit! Detroit! Detroit! It's Detroit!

Miss Cordelia Biddle: Oh, no, I'm not getting married!

[runs out of room]

Angie Duke: Then I'm not either!

Angie Duke: I don't like these pushy girls who think they can trap any man with a big act.

Miss Cordelia Biddle: But you saw me practicing. Didn't that scare you away?

Angie Duke: No. You were so bad at it.

Miss Cordelia Biddle: [a waltz starts] Oh, it's a waltz. The waltz is for old people.

Angie Duke: Oh is it?

[he pulls Cordy into the dance; they sweep elegantly across the floor and end up on the balcony]

Angie Duke: I don't think the waltz is for old people.

Miss Cordelia Biddle: I was just saying something somebody told me.