Hot Pepper (1933)
Lilian Bond: Hortense
Quotes
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Harry Quirt : You aren't angry, are you baby?
Hortense : No, just reserved.
Harry Quirt : Sure! Reserved for me!
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Trigger Thorne : [on the phone] Hello there, baby.
Hortense : Lil and I have got a Palooka here with ten grand... and he's just crying for someone to take it away from him.
Trigger Thorne : Are you sure he's got the jack on him? Bring him up. We'll give him some action.
[to his fellow gamblers]
Trigger Thorne : Hortense is bringin' up a mooch.
[to Hortense]
Trigger Thorne : Okay, sweetheart. Bring your sucker along and be sure that nothin' happens to him before you get here.
Hortense : Don't worry. If anything happens to him it'll be over my dead body. I need the dough.
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Hortense : Don't be silly. This chump couldn't find his way to first base.
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Harry Quirt : Well, did you dig up some nice place to take me?
Hortense : Did I! When it comes to digging up places, I'm a regular archeologist.
Harry Quirt : Yeah, well, I don't know what that is. But, if she's one of 'em too, all I can say is, let nature take it's course.
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Hortense : [slaps Quirt] I thought you told me that was a parlor story.
Harry Quirt : It is! I heard it in a pool parlor.
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Harry Quirt : Now, don't let me down on this, will you babe?
Hortense : Well, I'll try not to; but, I'm not feeling myself tonight.
Harry Quirt : You don't have to. I'll attend to that later.
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Hortense : Oh, this is awful. I was never so humiliated!
Harry Quirt : You're right. The humidity is terrible.
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Jim Flagg : You've met the girls.
Hortense : Why, yes! Remember? That was the night I powdered my nose.
Harry Quirt : Yeah and you dropped your shoulder strap and I lost my pants.