The Bad Seed (1956)

Eileen Heckart: Mrs. Hortense Daigle

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• Hortense Daigle : [drunkenly]  I just want to have a talk with your little girl. She was one of the last to see my Claude alive.

  Christine Penmark : I know.

  Hortense Daigle : Where do you keep the perfect little lady who was the last to see Claude? I thought I'd hold her in my arms and we'd have a little talk where maybe she'd remember some little thing... any little thing.

  Christine Penmark : She's out playing, I think.

  Hortense Daigle : Well, I'm unfortunate, that's all. Drunk and unfortunate, ladies and gentlemen.

• Hortense Daigle : Children can be nasty, don't you think?

• Hortense Daigle : He was such a lovely, dear little boy. He used to say I was his sweetheart and he was going to marry me when he grew up. I would laugh so. "No you won't. You'll forget about me long before then. You'll find a prettier girl and marry her." And do you know what he said then? "No, I won't. 'Cause there isn't a prettier girl in the whole world than you are."

• Hortense Daigle : I always considered Christine a gentle name. Hortense sounds fat. That's me, Hortense. "My girl Hortense", they used to sing of me, "hasn't got much sense. Let's write her name on the privy fence!"

  [laughs] 

  Hortense Daigle : Children can be nasty, don't you think?

• Hortense Daigle : I'm drunk. It's a pleasure to stay drunk when your little boy's been killed.

• Hortense Daigle : Miss Fern dyes her hair.

• Henry Daigle : Come, Hortense. It's time to go home.

  Hortense Daigle : Oh, my god! My god! It's time to go home!