Memorable quotes for
Picnic (1955) More at IMDbPro »

Hal Carter: I gotta get somewhere in this world. I just gotta.

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Howard Bevans: [to Rosemary] If a woman's going to ask me to marry her, the least she could do is say "Please."

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Millie Owens: The ones we love are always pretty, but the ones who are pretty to begin with... everyone loves them.

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Howard Bevans: You went for that Owens girl, didn't you?

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Madge Owens: I'm so tired of being told I'm pretty.

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Millie Owens: How do you talk to boy's?
Madge Owens: Just say whatever comes into your head.
Millie Owens: Supposing nothing ever comes into my head?

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Madge Owens: Oh, Ma, what is it just to be pretty?

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Rosemary Sidney: Look at that sunset, Howard!
Howard Bevans: A sunset's a beautiful thing, all right.
Rosemary Sidney: It's like the daytime didn't want to end, isn't it? It's like the daytime was gonna put up a big scrap, set the world on fire to keep the night from creeping on.

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Hal Carter: What's the use, Baby? I'm a bum. She saw through me like an x-ray machine. There's no place in the world for a guy like me.

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Madge Owens: Mom, you don't love someone because he's perfect.

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Rosemary Sidney: [Giddily to her schoolteacher friends just prior to eloping] So long, girls! You know what you can tell the principal for me!

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Flo Owens: Where is everybody?
Helen Potts: At a picnic everybody disappears. Don't you remember, Flo?

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