A character in Some Like It Hot (1959)

Sugar Kane Kowalczyk quotes from Some Like It Hot (1959)

Marilyn Monroe

3rd most-quoted character in Some Like It Hot (1959): in 4 of its 15 quotes

A line from Sugar Kane Kowalczyk

Real diamonds! They must be worth their weight in gold!

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Sugar Kane Kowalczyk

I'm not very bright, I guess...just dumb. If I had any brains, I wouldn't be on this crummy train with this crummy girls' band...I used to sing with male bands but I can't afford it anymore...That's what I'm running away from. I worked with six different ones in the last two years. Oh, brother!...I can't trust myself. I have this thing about saxophone players, especially tenor sax...I don't know what it is, they just curdle me. All they have to do is play eight bars of 'Come to Me, My Melancholy Baby' and my spine turns to custard. I get goose pimply all over and I come to 'em...every time... That's why I joined this band. Safety first. Anything to get away from those bums...You don't know what they're like. You fall for 'em and you really love 'em - you think this is gonna be the biggest thing since the Graf Zeppelin - and the next thing you know, they're borrowing money from you and spending it on other dames and betting on horses...Then one morning you wake up, the guy is gone, the saxophone's gone, all that's left behind is a pair of old socks and a tube of toothpaste, all squeezed out. So you pull yourself together. You go on to the next job, the next saxophone player. It's the same thing all over again. You see what I mean? Not very bright...I can tell you one thing - it's not gonna happen to me again - ever. I'm tired of getting the fuzzy end of the lollipop.

Scenes with Sugar Kane Kowalczyk

2 scenes
Sugar

I want to thank you for covering up for me. You're a real pal.

Jerry/Daphne

Oh, it's nothing. I-uh, I just thought that us girls should stick together.

Sugar

If it wasn't for you, they would have kicked me off the train. I'd be out in the middle of nowhere sitting on my ukelele.

Jerry/Daphne

Oh, it's freezing outside. When I think about you and your poor ukelele!

Sugar

If there's ever anything I can do for you?

Jerry/Daphne
[aside]

I can think of a million things. [She climbs into Daphne's berth] That's one of 'em.

Joe

You don't want me, Sugar. I'm a liar and a phony. A saxophone player. One of those no-goodniks you keep running away from.

Sugar

I know, every time.

Joe

Sugar, do yourself a favor. Go back to where the millionaires are, the sweet end of the lollipop, not the cole slaw in the face, the old socks and the squeezed-out tube of toothpaste.

Sugar

That's right. Pour it on. Talk me out of it. [She grabs him to kiss him]

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