Annie (1982)

Aileen Quinn: Annie

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• Annie : I guess they're dead. I guess I've known that deep down for a long time.

  Daddy Warbucks : I'm not giving up. Don't you give up.

  Annie : I didn't want to be just another orphan, Mr. Warbucks. I wanted to believe I was special.

  Daddy Warbucks : You are special! Never stop believing that!

• Annette : May I take your sweater, miss?

  Annie : Will I get it back?

• Annie : Leaping lizards!

  Miss Hannigan : "Leaping lizards!"

• Grace : The swimming pool is down the stairs.

  Annie : Inside the house? Oh. boy.

  Grace : The tennis court is in the rear.

  Annie : I never even picked up a racket.

  Grace : What? Have an instructor here at noon. And get that Don Budge fellow if he's available.

  Annie : I think I'm gonna like It here.

• Annie : [sings]  It's the Hard Knock Life for us.

  Orphans : [sings]  It's the hard knock life for us / 'Steada treated we get tricked! / 'Steada kisses we get kicked! / It's the Hard Knock Life!

• Annie : [while tearing up the check]  Mr. Warbucks will eat your livers!

  Rooster : I'll kill ya, ya little brat. I'll kill ya!

  Miss Hannigan : [to herself]  He's really gonna kill her!

  [while chasing Rooster and Annie] 

  Miss Hannigan : Rooster! Rooster stop! Rooster, she's a baby!

• Annie : The sun'll come out tomorrow, so you gotta hang on 'til tomorrow. Come what may. Tomorrow, tomorrow, I love ya, Tomorrow. You're only a day away.

• Daddy Warbucks : I never thought I'd get used to a girl.

  Annie : Girls are easier to get used to than boys. Look how used to Miss Farrell you are. She does all the work around here, and you don't even know her first name.

  Daddy Warbucks : I do, it's Grace.

  Annie : She thinks you're the greatest thing since sliced bread.

  Daddy Warbucks : [surprised]  I beg your pardon?

  Annie : I know it's none of my business, but you never notice anything!

• Annie : Pepper lies a lot. She probably hasn't been to a movie, either. Actually, I think it's better when you don't know what you're missing.

  Daddy Warbucks : Punjab, buy out the 8:00 show. Let's all go to the movies.

• Annie : All right, who's next? Anybody else? Then get lost!

• Grace : Annie, how would you like to spend a week with Mr. Warbucks at his house?

  Annie : Oh boy! I would love to. I would really, really love to.

• Annie : I love you, Daddy Warbucks.

• Annie : I don't need sunshine now to turn my skies to blue. I Don't Need anything but you.

• FDR : I want to feed them and house them and pay them. Not much, but enough to send home to their parents. So they can hold their heads up again and be proud to be Americans.

  Annie : That's a swell idea.

  Daddy Warbucks : It isn't a swell idea, Annie. It's mistaken foolishness.

• Annie : Who would want to kill Mr. Warbucks?

  Grace : The Bolsheviks, dear. He's living proof that the American system really works and the Bolsheviks don't want anyone to know about that.

  Annie : The Bolsheviks? Leapin' lizards!

• Miss Hannigan : What do we say, Annie?

  Annie : I love you Miss Hannigan.

  [Jumps from the bed on to her foot] 

• [repeated line] 

  Annie : Leapin' lizards!

• Annie : You've given me so much already, Mr. Warbucks.

  Daddy Warbucks : I got the papers signed today, it's official.

  Annie : What is?

  [Warbucks pulls out the locket] 

  Annie : It's so pretty, but.

  Daddy Warbucks : Let me put it on you.

  Annie : No. It's a really swell locket, Mr. Warbucks, but if it's all the same to you, I'll keep my old one.

  Daddy Warbucks : It isn't all the same to me. Your old one's broken, this one's engraved, you didn't even look at it: 'To Annie, with love, from Daddy Warbucks.

  Annie : Mr. Warbucks, when my folks left me at the orphanage ten years ago, they left a note saying they'd come back to get me as soon as they could, and they kept the other half of this old locket so I'd know them when they came. I'm going to find them someday, Mr. Warbucks. I'm going to have a regular mother and father, like a regular kid. I am! I don't mean to hurt your feelings. You've been nicer to me than anybody in the whole wide world, but I've been dreaming of my folks for as long as I can remember, and I've just got to find them.

• Annie : [she's inside the laundry basket]  Mr. Bundles, I'm in here.

  [he helps her out of the basket] 

  Annie : Thank you, Mr. Bundles.

  Mr. Bundles : [gives her a handshake]  Good luck.

• [first lines] 

  Molly : [having a nightmare]  Annie! Annie! Annie! Annie!

  Annie : [sits on the bed and cradles Molly]  Shh, it's okay. Everything is going to be alright. There, there.

  [kisses her cheek] 

  Annie : It was only a dream. It's alright.

  Pepper : How am I supposed to get any sleep around here?

  Annie : It was only a dream. Everything's alright.

• [Sandy has jumped into Warbucks' indoor pool with a huge splash] 

  Daddy Warbucks : [to Annie, shouts]  Get your blasted dog out of my pool!

  Annie : He thought you were drowning, Mr. Warbucks. He was trying to save your life.

  [to Sandy] 

  Annie : Come on, Sandy. Come on.

  Daddy Warbucks : Go on, you mutt. Get out here.