Kathy Selden Quotes in Singin' in the Rain (1952)

Don Lockwood: What's your lofty mission in life that lets you sneer at my humble profession?

Kathy Selden: I'm an actress...

Don Lockwood: Oh...

Kathy: ...on the stage.

Don Lockwood: Oh, on the stage, well I'd like to see you act, what are you in right now? I could brush up on my English, or bring along an interpreter, that is if they'd let in a *movie* actor.

Kathy Selden: I'm not in a play right now, but I will be. I'm going to New York...

Don Lockwood: Oh, you're going to New York and then some day we'll all hear of you, won't we? Kathy Selden as Juliet, as Lady Macbeth, as King Lear. You'll have to wear a beard for that one of course.

Kathy Selden: Laugh all you want, but at least the stage is a dignified profession.

Don Lockwood: [scoffing] Dignified profession.

Kathy: What do you have to be so conceited about? You're nothing but a shadow on film... just a shadow. You're not flesh and blood.

Don Lockwood: Oh, no?

[moves amorously towards her]

Kathy: Stop!

Don Lockwood: What can I do to you, I'm only a shadow.

Kathy Selden: Now look, Miss Lamont, Don and I...

Lina Lamont: Don? Don't you *dare* call him Don! I was calling him Don before you were born! I mean... You-you were kissing him!

Don Lockwood: *I* was kissing *her*! I happen to be in love with her.

Lina Lamont: That's ridiculous. Everybody knows you're in love with me.

Don Lockwood: I just had to tell you how good you were.

Kathy Selden: Excuse me.

Don Lockwood: No, no, don't go.

[pointing to cake she came out of at beginning of scene]

Don Lockwood: Now that I know where you live I'd like to see you home.

Kathy Selden: [the lead-in to Don's "Singin' In the Rain" number] This California dew's a little heavier than usual tonight.

Don Lockwood: Oh really? From where I stand, the sun is shining all over the place...

Don Lockwood: I do hope you're going to favor us with something special tonight.

Kathy Selden: Please!

Don Lockwood: Say, Hamlet's soliloquy, or the balcony scene from "Romeo and Juliet."

Kathy Selden: Mr. Lockwood!

Don Lockwood: Don't be shy. You'd make about the prettiest Juliet I've ever seen. Really.

Kathy Selden: [sings cheerfully] Here we are! Sunset and Camden!