Ellie Corbett Quotes in Blue Hawaii (1961)

Ellie Corbett: They taught us that corny hula stuff in dance school when I was 3.

Selena Emerson: You were never 3.

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.

Ellie Corbett: You ever see anything like this in a cradle?

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: 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.

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: 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.