Cosmo Brown Quotes in Singin' in the Rain (1952)

[Don Lockwood is being mobbed by several fans on the street]

Don Lockwood: [desperately] Hey, Cos! Do something! Call me a cab!

Cosmo Brown: OK, you're a cab.

Don Lockwood: [unimpressed] Thanks a lot!

Cosmo Brown: Lina. She can't act, she can't sing, she can't dance. A triple threat.

Cosmo Brown: Talking pictures, that means I'm out of a job. At last I can start suffering and write that symphony.

R.F. Simpson: You're not out of job, we're putting you in as head of our new music department.

Cosmo Brown: Oh, thanks, R.F.! At last I can stop suffering and write that symphony.

Cosmo Brown: Short people have long faces, and long people have short faces. Big people have little humor, and little people have no humor at all.

Cosmo Brown: Make 'em laugh!

Rod: Lina, you're a beautiful woman. Audiences think you've got a voice to match. The studio's gotta keep their stars from looking ridiculous at any cost.

Cosmo Brown: Nobody's got that much money.

Cosmo Brown: Gee, I'm glad you turned up, we've been looking inside every cake in town.

Cosmo Brown: What's the first thing an actor learns? "The show must go on!' Come rain, come shine, come snow, come sleet, the show MUST go on!

Cosmo Brown: Why bother to shoot this film? Why not release the old one under a new title? You've seen one, you've seen them all.

Don Lockwood: Hey, what'd you say that for?

Cosmo Brown: What's the matter?

Don Lockwood: That's what that Kathy Selden said to me that night.

Cosmo Brown: That's three weeks ago, you still thinking about that?

Don Lockwood: I can't get her out of my mind.

Cosmo Brown: How could you - she's the first dame who hasn't fallen for your line since you were four.

Don Lockwood: I'm no actor. I never was. Just a bunch of dumb show. I know that now.

Cosmo Brown: Well, at least you're taking it lying down.

Don Lockwood: No. No kidding, Cosmo. Did you ever see anything as ridiculous as me on that screen tonight?

Kathy: Yeah, how about Lina?

Don Lockwood: All right. I ran her a close second. Maybe it was a photo finish. I'm through, fellas.

Kathy: Don, you're not through!

Cosmo Brown: Why of course not. Why, with your looks and figure, you could drive an ice wagon or shine shoes!

Kathy: Block hats!

Cosmo Brown: Sell pencils!

Kathy: Dig ditches!

Cosmo Brown: Or worse still, go back to vaudeville.

[after Cosmo's car breaks down]

Don Lockwood: Don't tell me, it's a flat tire.

Cosmo Brown: I can't undertand it. This car hasn't given me a lick of trouble in nearly 6 hours.

[after Lina gets a pie thrown in her face]

Cosmo Brown: Lina, You've never looked lovelier.

[after Don shows up late for a party]

Cosmo Brown: Don, how did you come, by way of Australia?

Don Lockwood: Tell me the truth, am I a good actor?

Cosmo Brown: As long as I'm working for Monumental Pictures, you're the greatest of 'em all.

Cosmo Brown: The price of fame. You've got the glory, you gotta take the little heartaches that go with it. Now look at me: I've got no fame, I've got no glory, I've got no big mansions, I've got no money! But I've got - what have I got?

Don Lockwood: I don't know, what have you got?

Cosmo Brown: I gotta get out of here.

R.F. Simpson: Lina, you were gorgeous!

Cosmo Brown: Yeah, Lina, you looked pretty good for a girl.

Cosmo Brown: You have to show a movie at a party. It's a Hollywood law.

[after the demonstration of a talking picture]

R.F. Simpson: What do you think of it, Dexter?

Rosco: It'll never amount to a thing.

Olga: [with heavy, snotty accent] Its vulgar!

Cosmo Brown: That's what they said about the horseless carriage.

[after Cosmo gives a good idea]

R.F. Simpson: Cosmo, remind me to give you a raise.

[turns around]

Cosmo Brown: Oh, R.F.

R.F. Simpson: Yes?

Cosmo Brown: Give me a raise.

[after picture is shown where Kathy is singing for Lina]

Cosmo Brown: Lina, you were fabulous. You sang as good as Kathy Selden.

Don Lockwood: What's the matter with that girl? Can't she take a gentle hint?

Cosmo Brown: Well haven't ya heard? She's irresistible. She told me so herself.

[Don's about to start shooting a new movie]

Cosmo Brown: What's this one about?

Don Lockwood: It's a French revolution story...

Cosmo Brown: Don't tell me. You're a French aristocrat, she's a simple girl of the people, and she won't even give you a tumbrel. Hah!

Cosmo Brown: The new Don Lockwood. He yodels, he jumps around to music.

Don Lockwood: The only problem is once they release this movie, no-one's gonna want to see me jump off the Woolworth building into a damp rag.