Boudu Saved from Drowning (1932)
Marcelle Hainia: Emma Lestingois
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Quotes
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Édouard Lestingois : He spat on Balzac.
Emma Lestingois : He respects nothing.
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Priape Boudu : Do you like me now?
Emma Lestingois : Me, Mr. Boudu?
Priape Boudu : Yes, sweetie.
Emma Lestingois : Don't be so familiar.
Priape Boudu : What's that, sweetie?
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Emma Lestingois : Listen, Boudu. Mr. Lestingois and I are your benefactors.
Priape Boudu : Yes, I know.
Emma Lestingois : Nevertheless, you don't seem fully conscious of your obligations to us arising from your situation.
Priape Boudu : What's she saying?
Emma Lestingois : You're welcomed into an honest, middle-class home, and you behave like a Neanderthal! In cleaning your shoes, you made complete pandemonium of my room!
Priape Boudu : "Panty-moan-yum"?
Emma Lestingois : Don't be funny.
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Priape Boudu : What's that you have there?
Emma Lestingois : What? Here?
Priape Boudu : Yes.
Emma Lestingois : A beauty mark. What was I saying?
Priape Boudu : Why do you have a mark like that?
Emma Lestingois : [Slaps Boudu's hands away] Back to the matter at hand.
Priape Boudu : What did you say, Emma?
Emma Lestingois : Mr. Boudu, I'll thank you to show me the proper respect.
Priape Boudu : [Boudu grabs her] I'll give you respect!
Emma Lestingois : What's gotten into you?
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Emma Lestingois : Does your conscience trouble you that much? Naughty boy.
Priape Boudu : I'm not naughty.
Emma Lestingois : How quickly we forget!
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Emma Lestingois : Silly goose, nobody's going to hurt you. Quite the contrary. Aren't you happy here? Tell me.