Hot Pepper (1933)

Lilian Bond: Hortense

Quotes 

• Harry Quirt : You aren't angry, are you baby?

  Hortense : No, just reserved.

  Harry Quirt : Sure! Reserved for me!

• 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.

• Hortense : Don't be silly. This chump couldn't find his way to first base.

• 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.

• Hortense : [slaps Quirt]  I thought you told me that was a parlor story.

  Harry Quirt : It is! I heard it in a pool parlor.

• 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.

• Hortense : Oh, this is awful. I was never so humiliated!

  Harry Quirt : You're right. The humidity is terrible.

• 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.