Dorothy Gale If you can't find what you're looking for in your own backyard, maybe you never really lost it at all.
Most-quoted role: Dorothy Gale in The Wizard of Oz (1939), 44 quotes
Movies Dorothy Gale Dorothy Gale [to Scarecrow]
I think I'll miss you most of all.
Dorothy Gale Toto, I've a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore. We must be over the rainbow.
Note: first line is ranked #4 in the American Film Institute's list of the top 100 movie quotations in American cinema.
Esther Smith [singing]
Clang, clang, clang went the trolley,
Ding, ding, ding went the bell.
Zing, zing, zing went my heartstrings,
As we started for Huntingdon dell.
Esther Smith Well, I'll bet there isn't another girl in St. Louis who's had a Yale man call her long-distance just to inquire about her health.
Esther Smith [to her Grandpa]
You're the first human being I've danced with all evening. It's our last dance in St. Louis. I feel like I'm going to cry.
Esther Blodgett / Vicki Lester What is it that makes him want to destroy himself?...You don't know what it's like to watch somebody you love just crumble away bit by bit, day by day, in front of your eyes, and stand there helpless. Love isn't enough, I thought it was. I thought I was the answer for Norman. But love isn't enough for him.
Esther Blodgett / Vicki Lester I can remember my first job singing with the band. And then one night stands clear across country by bus. Putting on nail polish in the ladies rooms of gas stations, waiting on tables. Wow! That was a low point. I'll never forget it. And I'll never never do that again, no matter what. But I had to sing. I somehow feel most alive when I'm singing.
Esther Blodgett / Vicki Lester Sometimes, I hate him. I hate his promises to stop, and then the watching and waiting to see it begin again. I hate to go home to him at nights and listen to his lies...I hate me cause I've failed too.