Girls! Girls! Girls! (1962)

Elvis Presley: Ross Carpenter

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Quotes 

• Papa Stavros : Hey, Ross, what do I get?

  Ross Carpenter : You've got Mama!

• [first lines] 

  Ross Carpenter : [singing]  Girls, goin' swimming, Girl, in bikinis, / A walkin' and wigglin' by, yay, yay, yay / Girls, on the beaches, / Girls, oh, what a peaches, / So pretty, Lord I could cry / I'm just a red blooded boy / And I can't stop thinkin' about Girls!

• Ross Carpenter : What's this?

  Robin Gantner : The swinger with the mink look sent it over.

• Back Up Singers : [singing]  Return to sender / Return to sender.

  Ross Carpenter : [singing]  I gave a letter to the postman, he put it in his sack. / Bright and early next morning, he brought my letter back.

• Ross Carpenter : You know something? I should win a medal.

  Laurel Dodge : What for?

  Ross Carpenter : For being the world's biggest jackass. Well, say something.

  Laurel Dodge : Okay, You're the world's biggest jackass.

  Ross Carpenter : No. I thought the only thing in the world that could make me happy was owning the boat. But it isn't. I'm over it, I'm over it.

  Laurel Dodge : I love you anyway.

  Ross Carpenter : Hey, I'll tell you what. We'll build a new boat. You and I.

  Laurel Dodge : Is that a proposal or a proposition?

  Ross Carpenter : Well, either you marry me or live with me in sin.

  Laurel Dodge : Couldn't I have a little bit of both?

• Laurel Dodge : I like you.

  Ross Carpenter : I don't know why.

• Ross Carpenter : [singing]  Angel walk on street, Earth boy walking too / All at once they meet, Oo-oo-oo dreams come true.

• Ross Carpenter : [singing]  I don't want to get tied down with a girl like you / I don't want to... love you, but I do.

• Ross Carpenter : [singing]  If I should live to be ninety, I will never forget / The little shrimp and the song he sang as he jumped into the net.

• [last lines] 

  Ross Carpenter : [singing]  I'm just a red blooded boy / And I can't stop thinkin' about Girls! Girls! Girls! / Girls! Girls! Girls! / Girls! Girls! Girls! / Girls! Girls! Girls! / Girls! Girls! Girls! / Girls! Girls! Girls! / Girls! Girls! Girls!

• Mrs. Arthur Morgan : I don't give to organised charity, but there's a big charge in doing it this way - individual cases.

  Ross Carpenter : Mrs. Morgan, I don't - I have to earn what I get.

  Mrs. Arthur Morgan : [Lasciviously and with a bat of eyelids]  Oh, you would, honey... you would!

• Ross Carpenter : If you're trying to tire me, it's working.

• Laurel Dodge : You like games as well as l do.

  Ross Carpenter : Come aboard and play.

  Laurel Dodge : Tell me the rules.

  Ross Carpenter : l got a feeling you'd cheat.

  Laurel Dodge : That's usually what lady says to gentleman.

• Ross Carpenter : [singing]  Girls, big and brassy, Girls, small and sassy, Just give me one of each kind...

• Ross Carpenter : What? No fortune cookie?

• Ross Carpenter : Wanna come aboard?

  Robin Gantner : l wouldn't get aboard Cleopatra's barge with you.

• Laurel Dodge : l'm just not all together yet.

  Ross Carpenter : You're together enough for me.

• Wesley Johnson : Want to drink on it?

  Ross Carpenter : Not unless yours is a Mickey.

• Laurel Dodge : Why is it you feel so much more alive in a storm?

  Ross Carpenter : l dont know. I guess, maybe it's because everything seems - more intense, more real.

  Laurel Dodge : This is real.

• Ross Carpenter : [singing]  Because of love I'm the happiest guy, And life is sweet as cherry cream pie...

• Ross Carpenter : [singing]  Free ride, New Orleans, stay in grand hotel, Meet Creole gal who help you come out of your shell...

• Laurel Dodge : l got myself a job.

  Ross Carpenter : As what? Mata Hari?

• Ross Carpenter : [singing]  We work all day, but our hearts are gay...

• Ross Carpenter : [singing]  Now, I'm gonna see my baby soon as I get back, Knock on her door with my pockets packed, She'll look at me, well she can't say no, We're comin' in loaded so come on let's go...

• Laurel Dodge : [while kissing Ross out on the porch during a rainstorm]  We're getting wet.

  Ross Carpenter : Do you care?

  Laurel Dodge : I don't wanna care about anything.

  [they kiss again] 

• Ross Carpenter : Were supposed to be relaxing, remember? It's a nice day, a nice breeze...

  Laurel Dodge : Nice boy.

  Ross Carpenter : A nice girl.

  [singing] 

  Ross Carpenter : When a boy like me meets a girl like you, Then I must believe wishes come true, I just look at you and I touch your hand, And this ordinary world becomes a wonderland...