Mrs. Hardcastle: Eee Sal, you've changed. You're 'ard.
Sally: Aye, I'm 'ard. And by gosh an' I need t'be.


--Deborah Kerr (as ) in Love on the Dole

King: You are very difficult woman!
Anna: Perhaps so, Your Majesty.


--Deborah Kerr (as Anna Leonowens) in The King and I

King: You will say no more!
Anna: I will say no more, because there is no more to say!


--Deborah Kerr (as Anna Leonowens) in The King and I

Louis: Mother, look! The Prime Minister is naked.
Anna: Oh don't be ridiculous, Louis. He can't be all naked. He's only
[looks through the telescope]
Anna: ... half naked.


--Deborah Kerr (as Anna Leonowens) in The King and I

Lady Thiang: [meeting Anna for the first time]
[singing]
Lady Thiang: There is a happy land, far far away, where saints in glory stand bright, bright as day!
Lady Thiang: [Anna looks confused] Mis-on-ary!
Anna: Oh, a missionary taught you English!


--Deborah Kerr (as Anna Leonowens) in The King and I

Lady Thiang: They think you dress like that because you shaped like that!
Anna: Well I most certainly am not!


--Deborah Kerr (as Anna Leonowens) in The King and I

Shad Nathan: You're emotionally upset, have a glass of water.
Valerie Edwards: I don't want a glass of water, I want a divorce!


--Deborah Kerr (as Valerie Edwards) in Marriage on the Rocks

Lt. David Baynes: Where'd you get this? D'you realize you can go to prison for forging an identity card? What made you do it?
Bridie Quilty: It's nothing to do with you; it's my business.
Lt. David Baynes: It's my name! Small point, perhaps.
Bridie Quilty: Oh, isn't it like an Englishman to niggle about a thing like that?


--Deborah Kerr (as ) in I See a Dark Stranger

Mike Rettig: [Softly] Tomorrow, when we leave here, I want you to come with me.
Elizabeth Brandon: [Clearly surprised at the request] Come with you?
Mike Rettig: Yes.
Mike Rettig: [She makes some low sounds, and he moves toward her] Do you always offer more than you're asked for?
Elizabeth Brandon: Only to those who ask so much less than they want.


--Deborah Kerr (as Elizabeth Brandon) in The Gypsy Moths

Cpl. Allison, USMC: [Sister Angela walks up next to Allison as he stares at the waves on the shoreline; beat] Hello, Ma'am.
Sister Angela: Good morning, Mr. Allison.
Cpl. Allison, USMC: I must've been off my rocker last night. A marine oughtn't to get married. His duties are with the family or the corps. One of 'em's gotta get the short end. In the service, they'd ask us, 'what's better? A bad husband, or a bad marine. Well, he ends up *both*. Do me a favor, huh, ma'am? Just... just forget I opened my big mouth.
Sister Angela: [walking away] ... certainly, Mr. Allison.
[He continues to stare out at the waves]


--Deborah Kerr (as Sister Angela) in Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison