Candy Williams Quotes in Tulsa (1949)

Candy Williams: Cherokee. That sounds sort of Indian-ish.

Cherokee Lansing: Candy. That sounds sort of sticky-ish.

Candy Williams: There's thirteen people in the audience.

Hap Schneider: This is no time to be superstitious. It's bad luck.

Hap Schneider: [after Candy breaks a mirror] Hey, what's the matter with you? That's seven years bad luck.

Candy Williams: Let's make it fourteen.

[smashes another mirror]

Hap Schneider: Wanna try for twenty-one?

[Candy smashes a third mirror]

Candy Williams: [sings] It isn't that I'm superstitious, superstitious, I am not. / Nevertheless I take no chances walking under ladders.

Candy Williams: [sings] There's thirteen reasons why I feel this way.

Candy Williams: [sings] Never tap your toe in June, to an organ grinder's tune. / Men who pick up rusty pins marry girls with double chins.

Candy Williams: Hap, stop it!

Hap Schneider: What's the matter?

Candy Williams: Well, you know that whistling in the dressing room is bad luck.

Hap Schneider: Isn't that cute? Two months in show business, she knows all the rules.

Candy Williams: Well, you're the one that told me.

Candy Williams: But a trouper never says die!

Fortune Teller: Be alert, my child. You are passing through a period of opportunity. You are on the brink of adventure. A mysterious stranger lurks in your future. A stranger who may serve as a guide to your fortune and destiny.

Candy Williams: A mysterious stranger.

Candy Williams: [sings] I speak to the stars, and I wait for an answer.

Candy Williams: [sings] And the Bluebells of Broadway are ringing...

Candy Williams, Flo, Hap Schneider, Duke McGee: [sings] The Bluebells are ringing with a bag-pipe beat on Broadway, on Broadway tonight.

Candy Williams: This is strictly business, Mr. Carson.

Dick Carson: Yes, Miss Williams. Strictly business.

Candy Williams: Oh, Mr. Carson!

[hugs him]

Candy Williams: [sings] Love you dearly, more than just sincerely.

Candy Williams: [sings] That's why I wanna sing like an angel, and dance, dance, like the devil. So Mr. Leader-man, strike up the band, and let's go! Let's go, let's go, let's go, let's go¸ let's go!

Lorraine Thayer: It must be an exciting life being a lady.

Candy Williams: You should try it sometime. Er, er... marry a Lord, that is.

[last lines]

Otis Thayer: Ooh, Friday the Thirteenth. Anyone around here superstitious?

Candy Williams: Well, I, I... I used to be. But I'm not anymore. Not Lucky Me.