The Baby (1973)
Ruth Roman: Mrs. Wadsworth
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Quotes
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Ann Gentry : What about the family income?
Mrs. Wadsworth : Just what the county gives us for Baby.
Ann Gentry : Your daughters, are they employed?
Mrs. Wadsworth : Are my daughters... no, they help out the best they can, but it doesn't come to too much. Alba gives tennis lessons in the afternoon and Jermaine...
Germaine Wadsworth : Once in a while I do a TV commercial.
Mrs. Wadsworth : Sometimes I don't know how we make ends meet, but we always seem to manage.
Ann Gentry : Isn't there any money from your husband's pension? Or his social security?
Mrs. Wadsworth : Why no, how could there be?
Germaine Wadsworth : [laughs] She thinks he's dead.
Mrs. Wadsworth : [laughs] That man didn't die.
Germaine Wadsworth : No such luck.
Mrs. Wadsworth : It happened just before Baby was born. When I needed him most, he ran off and left us. But then all that's in the record.
Ann Gentry : Oh I'm sure it is.
Mrs. Wadsworth : My husband was a very weak man, Mrs. Gentry.
Germaine Wadsworth : No character.
Mrs. Wadsworth : None at all.
Ann Gentry : And you've had no contact with him since he left?
Mrs. Wadsworth : As far as I'm concerned, he might as WELL be dead.
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Ann Gentry : You do this every day, Mrs. Wadsworth?
Mrs. Wadsworth : Have to, or the muscles'll go bad.
Ann Gentry : His legs seem perfectly normal, I'm surprised he doesn't walk.
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Ann Gentry : Mrs. Wadsworth, if I could convince you that Baby is capable of growth and development, you wouldn't stand in his way, would you?
Mrs. Wadsworth : Of course not, what mother would?
Ann Gentry : Well then I think you should consider putting Baby into a special clinic for the retarded.
Mrs. Wadsworth : Clinic? You mean like a hospital?
Ann Gentry : Oh no, not like a hospital. It's a day clinic, more like a school, where Baby could be with other people like himself, it's really the best way, maybe the only way.
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Germaine Wadsworth : That tricky bitch!
Alba Wadsworth : She punctured it!
Mrs. Wadsworth : She thinks of everything.
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Babysitter : Nothing really happened, honest!
Mrs. Wadsworth : Nothing happened? With your damn tit in his mouth, and you call that nothing? Lying bitch!
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Mrs. Wadsworth : Are you going to be Baby's new worker?
Ann Gentry : I don't mind telling you, Mrs. Wadsworth, I made a special effort to get this assignment.
Mrs. Wadsworth : Oh you did? And why is that?
Ann Gentry : Well I, I heard about the case from one of the other workers, and it was impossible not to be interested.
Mrs. Wadsworth : I see.
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Ann Gentry : I only thought...
Mrs. Wadsworth : Maybe you think too much. When it comes to Baby, I do all the thinking.