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The Sound of Music (1965) - 14 quotes

Directed by Robert Wise, starring Christopher Plummer, Eleanor Parker, Julie Andrews, Richard Haydn (add more)

Genres: Biography, Drama, Family, Musical

Maria: I am not finished yet, Captain!

Captain Von Trapp: Oh yes you are, Captain! Fraulein, you will pack your things this minute and return to the Abbey.

The Baroness: My dear, is there anything you can't do?

Maria: Well, I'm not sure I'll make a very good nun.

The Baroness: If you have any problems, I'll be happy to help you.

Maria: You know how Sister Berthe always makes me kiss the floor after we've had a disagreement? Well, lately I've taken to kissing the floor whenever I see her coming, just to save time.

Max: Hold on. What's so funny?

Captain von Trapp: You are, Max. Expensive, but very funny.

Maria: I don't understand.

Captain von Trapp: Well, we called off our engagement, you see, and...

Maria: Oh, I'm sorry.

Captain von Trapp: Yes. You are?

Maria: Mm-hmm. You did?

Captain von Trapp: Yes. Well, you can't marry someone when you're in love with someone else... can you?

Maria: When the Lord closes a door, somewhere He opens a window.

Maria: Kurt, how are you?

Kurt: Hungry.

Frau Schmidt: The Von Trapp children don't play. They march.

Maria: I can't seem to stop singing wherever I am. And what's worse, I can't seem to stop saying things - anything and everything I think and feel.

Mother Abbess: Some people would call that honesty.

Maria: Oh, but it's terrible, Reverend Mother.

Captain von Trapp: Oh, there's nothing wrong with the children. Only the governesses.

Mother Abbess: Maria, these walls were not meant to shut out problems. You have to face them. You have to live the life you were born to live.

The Baroness: Somewhere out there is a lady who I think will never be a nun. Auf Wiedersehen, darling.

Captain von Trapp: Fraulein, is it to be at every meal, or merely at dinnertime, that you intend on leading us all through this rare and wonderful new world of... indigestion?

Max: How many have I had?

Maid: Two.

Max: Make it an uneven three.

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