The Bad Seed (1956)
Gage Clarke: Reggie Tasker
Quotes
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Christine Penmark : This is my daughter, Rhoda.
Reginald 'Reggie' Tasker : Hello, Rhoda. Well, isn't she a little sweetheart!
Rhoda : Thank you.
[she curtsies]
Reginald 'Reggie' Tasker : That's the kind of thing that makes an old bachelor wish he were married.
Rhoda : Oh, you like little girls to curtsy?
Reginald 'Reggie' Tasker : The best thing left out of the Middle Ages.
Rhoda : I'm having dinner upstairs.
Reginald 'Reggie' Tasker : The loss is ours. All ours.
Christine Penmark : You may go now, Rhoda.
Rhoda : Yes, Mommy. It's been a pleasure to have met you, Mr. Tasker.
[She exits]
Reginald 'Reggie' Tasker : Now there's a little ray of sunshine.
Christine Penmark : Oooh, I've seen her stormy.
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Christine Penmark : Do you really mean to say that nice family surroundings and advantages could make no difference at all?
Reginald 'Reggie' Tasker : Yes. It's as if these children were born blind permanently and you just couldn't expect to teach them to see.
Christine Penmark : Well, would you notice any brutish expressions on their faces?
Reginald 'Reggie' Tasker : Sometimes. But more often they present a more convincing picture of virtue than normal folk.
Christine Penmark : But that's horrible!
Reginald 'Reggie' Tasker : It's just that they are bad seeds. Plain bad from the beginning. And nothing can change them.