Chad Gates Quotes in Blue Hawaii (1961)

Chad Gates: I like my job, mum. It's fun, it's interesting and I meet a lot of nice people.

Sarah Lee Gates: Nonsense. Tourists aren't people. They're... They're tourists.

Maile Duval: How could you kiss that girl?

Chad Gates: It was easy.

Maile Duval: My French blood tells me to argue with you and my Hawain blood tells me not to mind - they're battling it out in front of me.

Chad Gates: I've never seen such a beautiful battleground.

Chad Gates: You sure kept them both in good shape.

Maile Duval: Both?

Chad Gates: Hmm hmm. Your body and my car.

Chad Gates: [singing] Baby I was almost always true to you, I was almost true to you.

Kid on beach: [Seeing Chad and Maile kissing on beach] Can I play?

Chad Gates: I think you're a little young for this game.

Kid on beach: If I get a girl can I play with you?

Chad Gates: It's a music box, it plays European love songs, but they're the same in any language.

Abigail Prentice: Mr Gates, do you think you can satisfy a school teacher and 4 teenage girls?

Chad Gates: Oh, I'll sure try, ma'am. I-I'll do all I can.

Chad Gates: Are you always so bored or is it me?

Ellie Corbett: Life is a bore I always say.

Chad Gates: Oh already?

Ellie Corbett: I've had 17 years of it.

Chad Gates: That's the fun part. Wait till the next seventeen.

Ellie Corbett: Don't start that child psychology bit, I'm no child.

Chad Gates: I'm no psychologist.

Sarah Lee Gates: You're up early this morning son.

Chad Gates: I have to, I've got a job.

Sarah Lee Gates: A job? Working?

Sarah Lee Gates: Chadwick think of who you are. Remember you come from a fine family.

Chad Gates: You'll do enough remembering for both of us, ma.

Sarah Lee Gates: Oh Daddy, what did we do wrong?

Fred Gates: Offhand I'd say we got married.

Maile Duval: You can't spend the rest of your life on a surf board.

Chad Gates: Oh yes, I can. The G.I. bill of rights says I get my old job back. This is my old job.

Chad Gates: I think you're a mixed-up kid that's too big for her breeches.

Ellie Corbett: I don't wear breeches.

Chad Gates: You're getting out of here right now, Miss No-Breeches Bardot!

Ellie Corbett: Chad, do you think I'm pretty?

Chad Gates: I think you're pretty forward and pretty stupid.

Ellie Corbett: Wouldn't you rather hold me than Abigail?

Chad Gates: I'd like to hold you over a barbecue pit!

Chad Gates: You know what you need? A good old-fashioned spanking.

Ellie Corbett: M-Maybe I do. Nobody ever cared enough about me. Even for that.

Chad Gates: Alright, Eleanor. I better prove that somebody does care.

[He pulls her over his lap]

Ellie Corbett: You wouldn't dare.

Chad Gates: Oh wouldn't I dare? Wouldn't I?

[He spanks her, and Ellie begins to cry out]

Chad Gates: I got a feeling that this is gonna make both of us an awful lot better.

Chad Gates: You wanna know something - on you, wet is my favourite colour.

Maile Duval: [When Chad gives her racy bikini] I thank you for thinking of me.

Chad Gates: Oh I wasn't thinking of you, I was thinking of me.

Carl Tanami: This is crazy seaweed.

Chad Gates: That's no seaweed, that's the top of Maile's bathing suit.

Maile Duval: You can't spend the rest of your life on a surfboard.

Chad Gates: Yes I can.

Chad Gates: Miss Prentice, as part of the service I'll promise to get a little older every day.

Chad Gates: What's your idea of action?

Ellie Corbett: What's yours?

Chad Gates: Back to your room!

Ellie Corbett: I couldn't sleep there.

Chad Gates: Well you sure can't sleep here. Perhaps you should take a bath - on second thoughts make that a cold shower!

Ellie Corbett: Well at least we have 5 minutes.

Chad Gates: I have 5 minutes Miss over-sexed and under-aged.

Abigail Prentice: Moonlight in Hawaii can be rather intoxicating.

Chad Gates: I know, that's why I never touch the stuff.

Ellie Corbett: Nobody cares about me, whether I live or die.

Chad Gates: Nobody seems to care because you don't seem to care about yourself. You have to care first, if you like yourself others will like you too.

Ellie Corbett: There's nothing to like.

Chad Gates: There's a lot to like if you wouldn't try to be something you're not. It don't work. I know. You're gonna find out now and save yourself a lot of grieve.

Chad Gates: Miss Prentice I'm not the guy you think I am, I snore and everything.

Maile Duval: You're pretty sure of yourself.

Chad Gates: Isn't it about time?

Ito O'Hara: Hey, Chad, why don't you go get some firewood for dinner?

Chad Gates: Firewood? Man you'll eat anything!

Maile Duval: What were you doing all that time while I was missing you?

Chad Gates: Uhm, being true to you.

Maile Duval: Always?

Chad Gates: Almost always.

Chad Gates: Oh, I get along very well with teenagers. I used to be one myself.

Abigail Prentice: And not too long ago.

Chad Gates: Shall we start our tour with the pineapple fields?

Ellie Corbett: I hate pineapples.

Chad Gates: Well, then let's go there first and get it over with.

Chad Gates: And what's your name, little girl?

Ellie Corbett: You may call me Miss Corbett.

Fred Gates: Who is this character anyway?

Chad Gates: This is my boss, dad.

Mr. Chapman: Your ex- you're fired young man.

Maile Duval: Mr. Chapman, he was only protecting your clients. You can't fire him.

Mr. Chapman: Oh yes I can, I'll do it again,too. Just watch me.

[turns to Chad and points a finger at him]

Mr. Chapman: You're fired. You see?

Maile Duval: Men, you can have them.

Chad Gates: I don't want em.

Maile Duval: Get out!

[Maile slams the door]

Chad Gates: I want you!

Maile Duval: Gates and Duval travel service. Has a nice ring to it.

Chad Gates: It's too long. Simple. Gates of Hawaii.

Maile Duval: Don't I get any billing?

Chad Gates: Sure. Gates is plural. In case you didn't recognize it, that's a proposal. That has a better ring.

Maile Duval: You're sure?

Chad Gates: Well, I suppose I could be romantic about it but you'll say yes anyway.

Chad Gates: I could try to explain what happened, Maile but nobody would believe me. Not even me. Will you just believe this- I love you and there's nothing between Miss Prentice and me.

Maile Duval: Well of course you deny it. But I know that look and she's got it.

Chad Gates: That look is for Jack. He's got it, too.

Maile Duval: Mr. Kellman and Miss Prentice?

[Chad nods, smiling]

Maile Duval: Oh, you can do better than that. You must think I'm a fool.

Chad Gates: Mom, I'm sorry, honestly. But it wasn't my fault.

Sarah Lee Gates: Oh, I know that, dear. It's your friends. Mostly that Duval girl. She's the one to blame.

Chad Gates: Maile had nothing to do with it.

Sarah Lee Gates: Well she was there, wasn't she? And you got that job working in her tourist place. Well, who else can we blame? She's pulling you down to her level.