Blue Hawaii (1961)
Elvis Presley: Chad Gates
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Quotes
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Chad Gates : You wanna know something - on you, wet is my favourite colour.
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Maile Duval : My French blood tells me to argue with you and my Hawaiian blood tells me not to mind - they're battling it out in front of me.
Chad Gates : I've never seen such a beautiful battleground.
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Abigail Prentice : Mr Gates, do you think you can satisfy a school teacher and 4 teenage girls?
Chad Gates : Oh, I'll sure try, ma'am. I-I'll do all I can.
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Maile Duval : How could you kiss that girl?
Chad Gates : It was easy.
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Maile Duval : You can't spend the rest of your life on a surf board.
Chad Gates : Oh yes, I can. The G.I. bill of rights says I get my old job back. This is my old job.
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Chad Gates : I like my job, mum. It's fun, it's interesting and I meet a lot of nice people.
Sarah Lee Gates : Nonsense. Tourists aren't people. They're... They're tourists.
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Kid on beach : [Seeing Chad and Maile kissing on beach] Can I play?
Chad Gates : I think you're a little young for this game.
Kid on beach : If I get a girl can I play with you?
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Sarah Lee Gates : Chadwick think of who you are. Remember you come from a fine family.
Chad Gates : You'll do enough remembering for both of us, ma.
Sarah Lee Gates : Oh Daddy, what did we do wrong?
Fred Gates : Offhand I'd say we got married.
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Ellie Corbett : Nobody cares about me, whether I live or die.
Chad Gates : Nobody seems to care because you don't seem to care about yourself. You have to care first, if you like yourself others will like you too.
Ellie Corbett : There's nothing to like.
Chad Gates : There's a lot to like if you wouldn't try to be something you're not. It don't work. I know. You're gonna find out now and save yourself a lot of grieve.
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Chad Gates : [after giving Maile a new racy bikini] Don't you like it?
Maile Duval : Oh, I love it! And I thank you for thinking of me.
Chad Gates : Oh, I wasn't thinking of you. I was thinking of me!
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Chad Gates : It's a music box, it plays European love songs, but they're the same in any language.
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Ellie Corbett : Don't start that child psychology bit, I'm no child.
Chad Gates : I'm no psychologist.
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Chad Gates : You sure kept them both in good shape.
Maile Duval : Both?
Chad Gates : Hmm hmm. Your body and my car.
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Chad Gates : Are you always so bored or is it me?
Ellie Corbett : Life is a bore I always say.
Chad Gates : Oh already?
Ellie Corbett : I've had 17 years of it.
Chad Gates : That's the fun part. Wait till the next seventeen.
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Maile Duval : Gates and Duval travel service. Has a nice ring to it.
Chad Gates : It's too long. Simple. Gates of Hawaii.
Maile Duval : Don't I get any billing?
Chad Gates : Sure. Gates is plural. In case you didn't recognize it, that's a proposal. That has a better ring.
Maile Duval : You're sure?
Chad Gates : Well, I suppose I could be romantic about it but you'll say yes anyway.
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Chad Gates : [singing in jail] I'm a poor Hawaiian beach boy/A long way from the beach/'Cause someone shoved his face against my hand/Now I'm a kissin' cousin to a ripe pineapple/ I'm in the can.
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Chad Gates : [singing] I was always, Baby, I was always, Well, almost, always true to you...
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Sarah Lee Gates : You're up early this morning son.
Chad Gates : I have to, I've got a job.
Sarah Lee Gates : A job? Working?
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Ellie Corbett : Well at least we have 5 minutes.
Chad Gates : I have 5 minutes Miss over-sexed and under-aged.
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Maile Duval : You're pretty sure of yourself.
Chad Gates : Isn't it about time?
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Maile Duval : What were you doing all that time while I was missing you?
Chad Gates : Uhm, being true to you.
Maile Duval : Always?
Chad Gates : Almost always.
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Maile Duval : Please don't take too much time.
[kiss]
Maile Duval : I don't know how long I can wait for you to grow up.
Chad Gates : Oh, you're a pretty fresh kid. I think I'll let you have one.
[kiss]
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Chad Gates : Well, what are we waitin' for? You got your bathing suit?
Maile Duval : Uh-hu.
Chad Gates : Don't worry about it. I brought you one from Paris.
Maile Duval : But, I've got a job, remember.
Chad Gates : Not today. It's a Hawaiian holiday.
Maile Duval : It is?
Chad Gates : Sure! Didn't your mother ever tell you about Hooky-Hooky Day?
Maile Duval : Hooky-Hooky.
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Maile Duval : [to Abigail Prentice] I'm afraid he's a little rusty.
Chad Gates : I'm afraid Miss Duval doesn't realize how well oiled I kept my machinery.
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Chad Gates : [singing] Like a river flows, Surely to the sea, Darling, so it goes, Some things are meant to be...
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Ellie Corbett : Do you want to kiss me again?
Chad Gates : I want you to go back to the others and behave yourself.
Ellie Corbett : Why? Afraid you might like it?
Chad Gates : I don't rob cradles.
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Chad Gates : Maile, you're a wonderful girl.
Maile Duval : I am?
Chad Gates : And you're pretty too! Not only wonderful pretty, you got a brain.
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Sarah Lee Gates : Chadwick, I think it would be much impressier if you wore your uniform with all the medals you won.
Chad Gates : Oh I didn't win any medals, Mom.
Sarah Lee Gates : Of course you won medals. What were all those on your soldier suit?
Chad Gates : Just marksmanship and good conduct.
Sarah Lee Gates : Oh, you see there.
Chad Gates : Every soldier wins one if he hits the target instead of an officer.
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Chad Gates : I think you're a mixed-up kid that's too big for her breeches.
Ellie Corbett : I don't wear breeches.
Chad Gates : You're getting out of here right now, Miss No-Breeches Bardot!
Ellie Corbett : Chad, do you think I'm pretty?
Chad Gates : I think you're pretty forward and pretty stupid.
Ellie Corbett : Wouldn't you rather hold me than Abigail?
Chad Gates : I'd like to hold you over a barbecue pit!
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Chad Gates : You know what you need? A good old-fashioned spanking.
Ellie Corbett : M-Maybe I do. Nobody ever cared enough about me. Even for that.
Chad Gates : Alright, Eleanor. I better prove that somebody does care.
[He pulls her over his lap]
Ellie Corbett : You wouldn't dare.
Chad Gates : Oh wouldn't I dare? Wouldn't I?
[He spanks her, and Ellie begins to cry out]
Chad Gates : I got a feeling that this is gonna make both of us an awful lot better.
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Carl Tanami : This is crazy seaweed.
Chad Gates : That's no seaweed, that's the top of Maile's bathing suit.
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Maile Duval : You can't spend the rest of your life on a surfboard.
Chad Gates : Oh, yes I can. The GI Bill of Rights says I get my old job back. This is my old job.
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Chad Gates : Miss Prentice, as part of the service I'll promise to get a little older every day.
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Chad Gates : What's your idea of action?
Ellie Corbett : [blows cigarette smoke in Chad's face] What's yours?
Chad Gates : You're a very funny girl. Just wait and see.
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Chad Gates : Back to your room!
Ellie Corbett : I couldn't sleep there.
Chad Gates : Well you sure can't sleep here. Perhaps you should take a bath - on second thoughts make that a cold shower!
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Abigail Prentice : Moonlight in Hawaii can be rather intoxicating.
Chad Gates : I know, that's why I never touch the stuff.
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Chad Gates : Miss Prentice I'm not the guy you think I am, I snore and everything.
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Ito O'Hara : Hey, Chad, why don't you go get some firewood for dinner?
Chad Gates : Firewood? Man you'll eat anything!
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Chad Gates : Oh, I get along very well with teenagers. I used to be one myself.
Abigail Prentice : And not too long ago.
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Chad Gates : Shall we start our tour with the pineapple fields?
Ellie Corbett : I hate pineapples.
Chad Gates : Well, then let's go there first and get it over with.
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Chad Gates : And what's your name, little girl?
Ellie Corbett : You may call me Miss Corbett.
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Fred Gates : Who is this character anyway?
Chad Gates : This is my boss, dad.
Mr. Chapman : Your ex- you're fired young man.
Maile Duval : Mr. Chapman, he was only protecting your clients. You can't fire him.
Mr. Chapman : Oh yes I can, I'll do it again,too. Just watch me.
[turns to Chad and points a finger at him]
Mr. Chapman : You're fired. You see?
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Maile Duval : Men, you can have them.
Chad Gates : I don't want em.
Maile Duval : Get out!
[Maile slams the door]
Chad Gates : I want you!
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Chad Gates : I could try to explain what happened, Maile but nobody would believe me. Not even me. Will you just believe this- I love you and there's nothing between Miss Prentice and me.
Maile Duval : Well of course you deny it. But I know that look and she's got it.
Chad Gates : That look is for Jack. He's got it, too.
Maile Duval : Mr. Kellman and Miss Prentice?
[Chad nods, smiling]
Maile Duval : Oh, you can do better than that. You must think I'm a fool.
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Chad Gates : Mom, I'm sorry, honestly. But it wasn't my fault.
Sarah Lee Gates : Oh, I know that, dear. It's your friends. Mostly that Duval girl. She's the one to blame.
Chad Gates : Maile had nothing to do with it.
Sarah Lee Gates : Well she was there, wasn't she? And you got that job working in her tourist place. Well, who else can we blame? She's pulling you down to her level.
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Tucker Garvey : [stands up and glares at Chad after Chad sings, yells] Hey you, cork up the wailing!
[pauses, then yells louder]
Tucker Garvey : I SAID CORK IT UP!
Prison Inmate : [grabs Tucker and punches him in the face, knocking Tucker out]
[turns to Chad and the other Beach Boys, tears in his eyes as he puts his harmonica away]
Prison Inmate : Beautiful! You boys sing beautiful, I hope we get life together!
[is hopeful because of how lonely he was before Chad and The Beach Boys were arrested]
Chad Gates : [glances up at the inmate with a raised eyebrow, surprised and definitely does not want to be in jail for life]
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Ping Pong : Hello, Mr. Chadwick. Did you have a swingin' time in Europe?
Chad Gates : Pingo, the swingingest, boy.
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Chad Gates : [singing] The way she moves her hips to her fingertips, I feel I'm heaven bound, And when she starts to sway, I've gotta say, She really moves the grass around, Rock-a-hula baby, Rock-a-hula baby, Got a hula lulu from Honolulu. That rock-a-hula baby of mine...
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Chad Gates : [singing] Wise men say, Only fools rush in, But I can't help falling in love with you...
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Ellie Corbett : I believe you're being paid to show us a good time. When does it start?
Chad Gates : The others seem to be enjoying themselves.
Ellie Corbett : They're a bunch of drips!
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Chad Gates : [singing] Let's go on a moonlight swim, Far away from the crowd, All alone upon the beach, Our lips and our arms close within each others reach...
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Chad Gates : [singing] I love you, Less today, Less than I will tomorrow...
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Chad Gates : [singing] I want a taste of honey, From my wahine's lips, I want to be her ever loving man...
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Chad Gates : [singing] Got those beach boy blues, Don't the time go slow, Lonely beach boy blues...