Thoroughly Modern Millie Quotes

Thoroughly Modern Millie is a TV show that appeared on TV in 1970 . Thoroughly Modern Millie completed its run in 1970.

It features Ross Hunter as producer, Elmer Bernstein in charge of musical score, and Russell Metty as head of cinematography.

Thoroughly Modern Millie is recorded in English and originally aired in United States. Each episode of Thoroughly Modern Millie is 138 minutes (general release version) long. Thoroughly Modern Millie is distributed by Universal Pictures.

The cast includes: Julie Andrews as Millie Dillmount, Mary Tyler Moore as Miss Dorothy Brown, Carol Channing as Muzzy Van Hossmere, John Gavin as Trevor Graydon, James Fox as Jimmy Smith, Beatrice Lillie as Mrs. Meers, James Fox as James Van Hossmere, Carol Channing as Millie Van Hossmere, and Mary Tyler Moore as Millie Dillmount, Miss Dorothy Brown.

Thoroughly Modern Millie Quotes

Julie Andrews as Millie Dillmount

• (Julie Andrews) "I'm your equal. I'm going to meet you men on your own terms, cater to your craving for efficiency, learn to talk sports, tell jokes, smoke, drink, and yes, if I have to, I'll even kiss you back."

• (Julie Andrews) "I'm going to be a stenog. Tomorrow I start interviewing bosses."
• (Mary Tyler Moore) "I thought it was the other way around, bosses interviewing you?"
• (Julie Andrews) "Oh, I can typewrite forty words a minute. I'm in demand. Besides, I'm going to marry an eligible bachelor. You see, I'm going to marry my boss -- whoever he may be."
• (Mary Tyler Moore) "You're a modern."
• (Julie Andrews) "Thoroughly."

• (Julie Andrews) "Mrs. Meers certainly insists on a snowy wash."

• (Unnamed) "Forget the boy, Dillmount, get yourself a canary."
• (Julie Andrews) "Forget the boy, Dillmount, get yourself a man."

• (Julie Andrews) "Terrif. Ooh, delish."

• (Julie Andrews) "Like a squirrel, storing the nuts of life."

• (Julie Andrews) "I like you."
• (James Fox) "And I like you, by jingo."

• (Julie Andrews) "Do you have a mo?"
• (John Gavin) "A what?"
• (Julie Andrews) "A moment. I would just love to get a man's opinion of Rudolph Valentino."
• (John Gavin) "Huh?"
• (Julie Andrews) "I mean, in The Sheik, he takes Agnes Ayres by brute force, and she enjoys it. She enjoys it -- a lot. What is your opinion of brute force, Mr. Graydon?"
• (John Gavin) "Well, I'm not for it. No, I'm not for it at all. No, that is not what women really want today. The late war has upset them. Now they are disillusioned. They yearn for truth. Give them a young man they can trust. Tom Sawyer, at twenty."
• (Julie Andrews) "I never read Tom Sawyer. Was he -- sexy?"
• (John Gavin) "He was only twelve."
• (Julie Andrews) "So? If ya got it, ya got it."
• (John Gavin) "Why John."

• (Julie Andrews) "Let me get you some more coffee, Mr. Graydon."
• (Julie Andrews) "Strong spirits."
• (John Gavin) "Not strong enough."

John Gavin as Trevor Graydon

• (John Gavin) "Swell. Just swell."

James Fox as Jimmy Smith

• (James Fox) ""She doesn't want to see me." Banana oil."

• (James Fox) "You think that?"
• (John Gavin) "I do."
• (James Fox) "You don't mean?"
• (John Gavin) "I'm afraid."
• (James Fox) "Then by now she could be --"
• (John Gavin) "Yes."

• (James Fox) "My, what lovely elbows you have, Miss Flannery."
• (Unnamed) "From my mother's side of the family."

• (James Fox) "What do you want for a wedding present, Mrs. Van Hossmere?"
• (Carol Channing) "A checkbook, by jingo. Rich people can nickel and dime you to death."

• (James Fox) "Does he have a pet name for you?"
• (Julie Andrews) "Yes. John."
• (James Fox) "John?"
• (Julie Andrews) "John."
• (James Fox) "John, that's not very romantic."
• (Julie Andrews) "No, but it's modern."

• (James Fox) "It seems I'm leaving now. Goodbye, Millie."

• (James Fox) "Why, Judith Tremaine. Fancy meeting you here."

Mary Tyler Moore as Miss Dorothy Brown

• (Mary Tyler Moore) "Bitch."

• (Mary Tyler Moore) "Echo, echo."
• (Mary Tyler Moore) "Andiamo, andiamo. Allez oop."

• (Unnamed) "That'll be 35 cents please."
• (Mary Tyler Moore) "A pen, please."
• (Unnamed) "A pen? What for?"
• (Mary Tyler Moore) "To write a check."
• (Unnamed) "A check? 35 cents I said, not 35 dollars. Who writes a check for 35 cents?"
• (Mary Tyler Moore) "Oh, I do."

• (Unnamed) "Do you know the Tapioca?"
• (Mary Tyler Moore) "Can't say I do --"
• (Unnamed) "It's the latest."
• (Mary Tyler Moore) "Well, I'm here to learn."

• (Mary Tyler Moore) "Operator, you have obviously never been in a Chinese opium den."

• (Mary Tyler Moore) "Oh, I love it. All you do in the Ritz elevator is go up and down."

Carol Channing as Muzzy Van Hossmere

• (Carol Channing) "Follow your heart, no raspberries."

• (Carol Channing) "Oh. Moderns don't cry."
• (Julie Andrews) "No. No, of course not."
• (Carol Channing) "Now Millie, I must apologize for my guest. Judith is a rude and spoiled young lady. You must not let her upset you."
• (Julie Andrews) "Oh Muzzy, I'm so mixed up, so confused. It's not only Miss Tremaine, though she did read me right. I am a working girl, and a boob."
• (Carol Channing) "Well, there's certainly nothing wrong with being a working girl. I was a working girl myself in the chorus, but I wasn't a boob."
• (Julie Andrews) "No, you married well, and that's exactly my plan, and I've got to stick to it."
• (Carol Channing) "Jimmy told me your plans, Millie, to marry your boss."
• (Carol Channing) "Love has nothing to do with it?"
• (Julie Andrews) "Yes, Ma'am, I'm a modern."
• (Carol Channing) "You're a boob."

• (Carol Channing) "Raspberries."

• (Carol Channing) "Myself, I prefer to sleep in the all-together."

• (Carol Channing) "You know, Baron Richter, those loop de loops are beginning to affect my inner ear. They really are."
• (Carol Channing) "Why Baron Richter, you're perfectly marvelous."
• (Carol Channing) "And to think we were against you in the late war."

Beatrice Lillie as Mrs. Meers

• (Beatrice Lillie) "Sad to be all alone in the world."

• (Beatrice Lillie) "Oh POOT."

• (Beatrice Lillie) "Pook."

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