When I was discovered, I was doing Chekhov. I was in "The Three Sisters" off-Broadway, and I went from "Three Sisters" to Gidget Goes Hawaiian (1961). I rode on a Sixth Avenue bus from one end of Manhattan to another, crying my eyes out. "Gidget" was so huge, I guess I knew on that bus that day that part of my dream of being a serious actress was kind of destroyed.
- Deborah Walley(referring to being cast in Gidget Goes Hawaiian (1961)) I wasn`t really a movie fan. I lived in New York City; I was an actress on the stage and did some television out of New York. But I was so wrapped up in theater, and this was my dream - I was going to be a Broadway star - that I didn`t pay too much attention to film. I was actually quite disappointed when I got the part to begin with."
- Deborah WalleyI get things from 14-year-olds, and 15-year-olds, 16, 17, you know, saying, "Gidget Goes Hawaiian (1961) is my favorite movie" and "I loved you in this and that". And they know everything I`ve done, or at least everything that`s available on video, or has been played on television. And it`s so different from what`s going on today. Maybe that`s the appeal. It is so diametrically different. It`s so clean and fresh and fun-filled, as opposed to the movies they make for teenagers today.
- Deborah Walley(On Blue Hawaii (1961)) "In the movie we did a song called the `Hawaiian Wedding Song`. And it was so real that it took me ten years before I realized I wasn`t married to the chick."
- Elvis PresleyIf it were up to me, how would the characters` relationships conclude in Serenity 2? Okay. Hypothetically speaking only. River and Zoe really hit it off, fall in love, and decide to form their own renegade girls-who-kick-ass space team and leave us in the dust; Mal realizes he`s more destroyed over Wash`s death than he ever thought and spends the rest of his days wearing Hawaiian shirts and drinking booze out of the engine; Simon and Kaylee have a set of genius triplets and turn the ship into a cocker spaniel search-and-rescue with "crazy Grandpa Mal" still at the helm cradling toy dinosaurs; and Inara finally realizes the potential in Jayne as a male companion, loans him a toga, and takes him back to the training house where they become King and Companion Queen...you know you want that sequel! (writing on her blog)
- Jewel StaiteWhen we got to the hotel, the Hawaiian Village, there were 500 screaming women there. The police were trying to keep the crowd back. It was very dangerous.
- Minnie PearlOn December 5, 1941, Chicago led a task force built around the carrier Lexington to Midway Island, at the western end of the Hawaiian Islands, about 1,000 miles from Pearl Harbor.
- Jack AdamsRight now we are in sort of a lull in the action. We have a weak upper ridge over the Hawaiian islands and that is helping to keep things relatively quiet now. We will get a chance to dry out a little bit before things turn wetter later in the weekend.
- Bob BallardWhen I was first elected to the state House of Representatives in 1974, one of the committees I was assigned to was Land, Water and Hawaiian Homes.
- Ami BrophyThe people to whom your fathers told of the living God, and taught to call `Father,` and whom the sons now seek to despoil and destroy, are crying aloud to Him in their time of trouble; and He will keep His promise, and will listen to the voices of His Hawaiian children lamenting for their
- Queen Liliuokalani of Hawaii