Catherine Freneau Quotes in Father Goose (1964)

Catherine Freneau: Do you have a boat?

Walter Eckland: No. I walked.

Catherine Freneau: [Eckland has sucked the "poison" from Catherine's "snakebite"] Tell me, I would like to know - what did my blood taste like?

Walter Eckland: Delicious. Now come on.

[he tries to take her coconut full of whiskey]

Catherine Freneau: No, no, no, I'm serious. What did it taste like?

Walter Eckland: Well how would I know? I'm not a vampire,

Catherine Freneau: Um, was it salty?

Walter Eckland: Mmm, a little salty, yes.

Catherine Freneau: Too salty?

Walter Eckland: No, it was just right.

Catherine Freneau: Oh, no! You thought it was too salty, I can tell! You didn't like it!

[she seems on the verge of crying]

Walter Eckland: I liked it!

Catherine Freneau: Oh, really?

Walter Eckland: Uh-huh, I liked it!

Catherine Freneau: You're not just saying that?

Walter Eckland: Great blood!

[catching a fish barehanded. A fish swims toward them]

Walter Eckland: [In a hushed voice] Hey, here she comes again.

Catherine Freneau: How do you know it's a "she"?

Walter Eckland: Her mouth is open, now be quiet.

Walter Eckland: [to the French girls] You two get in the bottom of the boat.

[pause]

Walter Eckland: Get in the bottom of the boat!

Catherine Freneau: They don't understand English.

Walter Eckland: Sure they do.

[puts them in the boat]

Walter Eckland: See?

Catherine Freneau: [Jenny hands Walter a whiskey bottle] Jenny!

Walter Eckland: Why, how strange!

Jenny: What?

Walter Eckland: That you should bring me this.

Jenny: I've done it before.

Walter Eckland: No you haven't.

Jenny: Yes I have.

Walter Eckland: Shut up.

Commander Frank Houghton RAN: There's a bit of paperwork to fill out, Walter. Who's the Maid of Honor?

Catherine Freneau: Umm, Elizabeth Anderson.

Commander Frank Houghton RAN: And the Best Man?

Walter Eckland: Uh, Harry MacGregor.

Commander Frank Houghton RAN: Harry?

Walter Eckland: Just believe me.

Catherine Freneau: How in English do you say "parachute"?

Walter Eckland: Uh... Parachute.

[Walter is about to go do something very dangerous]

Catherine Freneau: Walter! I look awful in black.

Catherine Freneau: I'm a... a picture straightener.

Walter Eckland: You're a what?

Catherine Freneau: A picture straightener.

Walter Eckland: Oh.

Catherine Freneau: When I see a picture on a wall that doesn't hang straightly, I straighten it.

Walter Eckland: Oh, you do that.

Catherine Freneau: And I brush my teeth every morning and every night.

Catherine Freneau: And if I don't have a toothbrush...

Catherine Freneau: [Demonstrating] ... I use my finger.

Catherine Freneau: Where is your boat?

Walter Eckland: [Indicating the dinghy] It's right there lady. If you spit you'd sink it.

Catherine Freneau: Mr Eckland is a rude, foul-mouthed, drunken, filthy beast

Catherine Freneau: Look at their clothes.

Walter Eckland: They're my clothes.

Catherine Freneau: But they're filthy.

Walter Eckland: No, they're dirty, I'm filthy.

Catherine Freneau: I have an infuriating lack of talent for doing simple things.

Walter Eckland: You probably don't do them right, that's why.

Commander Frank Houghton RAN: Bride's full name?

Catherine Freneau: Catherine Louise Marie Ernestine Freneau.

Walter Eckland: [Gives Catherine a strange look] Eh!

Commander Frank Houghton RAN: Groom's full name?

Walter Eckland: Walter Christopher Eckland.

Catherine Freneau: Mr. Eckland please keep the boat quiet, the girls are extremely frightened.

Walter Eckland: Will you shut up, lady?

Girl: We're sinking!

Walter Eckland: Well don't just sit there, dammit, start bailing!

Catherine Freneau: Mr. Eckland, your language!