Memorable quotes for
The King and I (1999) More at IMDbPro »

Louis Leonowens: [holding a crossbow] Hey, do these things still...
[crossbow accidentally goes off and narrowly misses Master Little]
Louis Leonowens: ...work? Sorry.
Master Little: Good thing Master Little so little...

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Master Little: Oh! I get it, Oh Corporate One... we are going to be rich, aren't we?
The Kralahome: [sniffs] Well... I am.

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The King of Siam: [praying to Buddha] Buddha, please help Anna keep awake for scientific preparation of banquet, even though she is a woman and a Christian and therefore unworthy of your interest.
[Anna looks indignantly at the King]

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Master Little: The Kralahome very good at Kralahoming!

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Tuptim: [holding a vase of flowers] For your room, Mrs. Anna.
Anna Leonowens: Oh, how lovely!
[Tuptim looks at poetry book]
Anna Leonowens: Oh, you must have something in return.
Tuptim: Oh no, Mrs. Anna, you will be punished for giving book to servant!
Anna Leonowens: [giving Tuptim the poetry book] Oh, nonsense, I'm a teacher.

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[when walking on roof and Louis follows]
Prince Chululongkorn: Not for boy, you'll get hurt.
Louis Leonowens: That's what you said about kick-boxing - and I bloodied your nose!

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Tuptim: If we stay, death. If we go to Burma, death. We have no country to go to.
Prince Chululongkorn: We make our own country, in jungle.

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[after Anna has just received a house outside the palace]
Anna Leonowens: I'm speechless.
The King of Siam: For once!

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[when Louis is hiding behind his mother in fright]
The King of Siam: Never hide behind woman's skirt, it's not brave. Also, impossible to know when she sit down!

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The King of Siam: Someday, you too will know everything.
Prince Chululongkorn: When do I know that I know everything?
The King of Siam: When you are king.

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The Kralahome: [dictating to Master Little, who will then send the dictation to Edward Ramsey] To Sir Edward Ramsey, your schoolteacher is in great danger, etc, etc.
Master Little: [excitedly] Etc? Ooh, is that a secret code?

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Anna Leonowens: [teaching King's children] I have a surprise. A new, modern, British map.
[Anna enrols map out on wall]
Prince Chululongkorn: Siam is not so *small!*
Anna Leonowens: Oh but look, England's even smaller.
King's other children: [all at once] Ah!
Prince Chululongkorn: But royal palace is centre of whole universe.
Anna Leonowens: Well, I suppose we think that of all our homes really - whether you live in a palace or not.

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