The Sound of Music (1965)

Charmian Carr: Liesl von Trapp

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• Liesl : I'm Liesl. I'm sixteen years old and I don't need a governess.

• Liesl : [upon receiving her first kiss from Rolfe]  Wheeeeeeeeeee!

• Maria : Dear Father, now I know why You sent me here. To help these children prepare for a new mother. And I pray this will become a happy family in Thy sight. God bless the captain. God bless Liesl and Friedrich. God bless Louisa, Brigitta, Marta and little Gretl. And I forgot the other boy. What's his name? Well, God bless what's-his-name. God bless the Reverend Mother and Sister Margaretta and everybody at the abbey. And now, dear God, about Liesl. Help her know that I'm her friend and help her tell me what she's been up to.

  Liesl : Are you going to tell on me?

  Maria : Help me to be understanding so I may guide her footsteps. In the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost.

  Liesl : I was out walking and somebody locked the doors early. I didn't want to wake everybody, so when I saw your window open. You're not going to tell Father, are you?

  Maria : How in the world did you climb up here?

  Liesl : It's how we always got in to play tricks on the governess. Louisa can make it with a whole jar of spiders in her hand.

  Maria : Spiders? Liesl, were you out walking all by yourself? If we wash that dress tonight, nobody would notice it tomorrow. You could put this on. Take your dress and put it to soak in the bathtub. Come back here and sit on the bed, and we'll have a talk.

  Liesl : I told you today I didn't need a governess. Well, maybe I do.

• Rolfe : [narrating a "telegram" for Liesl]  Dear Liesl, I would like to tell you how I feel about you STOP Unfortunately, this wire is already too expensive Sincerely, Rolfe

  Liesl : [sounded offended]  Sincerely?

  Rolfe : Cordially?

  Liesl : [turning away]  Cordially?

  Rolfe : Affectionately?

  [Liesl smiles and throws her arms around his neck] 

• Liesl : How else are we supposed to get Father's attention?

  Brigitta : Yes.

  Maria : Well, we'll have to think about that one.

• Liesl : [singing with the children at the Villa]  So long, farewell, au revoir, auf Wiedersehen! I'd like to stay and taste my first champagne. Yes?

  Captain von Trapp : No!

• Liesl : [singing]  I need someone older and wiser, telling me what to do. You are seventeen going on eighteen. I'll depend on you.

• Rolfe : Don't tell your father, now.

  Liesl : Why not?

  Rolfe : Well, your father's so... so Austrian.

  Liesl : We're all Austrian.

  Rolfe : Well, some people think we ought to be German... and they're very mad at those who don't think so.

• Maria : I can't understand how children as nice as you... can manage to play such awful tricks on people.

  Brigitta : Oh, it's easy.

  Maria : But why do it?

  Liesl : Well, how else can we get Father's attention?

• Liesl : Is Father going to be in trouble?

  Max : He doesn't have to be. The thing to do these days is to get along with everybody.

• Liesl : Mother, what do you do when you think you love someone... I mean, when you stop loving someone... or... or he stops loving you?

  Maria : Well, you cry a little. And then you wait for the sun to come out. It always does.

  Liesl : There are so many things I think I should know, but I don't. I really don't.

  Maria : How can you?

  Liesl : Sometimes I feel the world is coming to an end.

  Maria : And then you feel it's just beginning?

  Liesl : Yes.

  Maria : It was that way with me, Liesl. And for you, it will be just as wonderful, I promise.

• Rolfe : We make it our business to know everything about everyone.

  Liesl : Who's we?

• Rolfe : See that he gets it.

  Liesl : What is it?

  Rolfe : It's a telegram from Berlin.

  Liesl : Don't you want to come over tonight and deliver it yourself?

  Rolfe : I am now occupied with more important matters... and your father better be, too, if he knows what's good for him.