Shelley Winters: 'Ma' Kate Barker

Bloody Mama

'Ma' Kate Barker

'Ma' Kate Barker: [opens door and walks into boys' room, where Fred and Kevin are lying in bed together] I don't wanna sleep alone tonight.
Fred Barker: Ma, I can't.
'Ma' Kate Barker: Freddie, I don't want to cuddle with you tonight, baby. Kevin, I want you.
Kevin Dirkman: Well, we're all feeling kinda weird tonight, Ma.
'Ma' Kate Barker: ...Kevin, I've been promising myself you for a long time, and I want you tonight
Kevin Dirkman: Well, honey, I'm ready.
[rolls over Freddie, rubbing him sexually as he climbs out of bed. In a subsequent masochistic ecstasy, Fredde burns himself with his cigar]

'Ma' Kate Barker: It's supposed to be a free country Mona. But unless you're rich, you ain't free and you know that. So I aim to be freer than the rest of the people.

'Ma' Kate Barker: [giving Freddie a bath] Oh, Freddie, stop being a baby! Hot water never did hurt your vital parts.

'Ma' Kate Barker: Hello, Sheriff. Talk! Come on! Come on!
Sheriff: Want me to talk to you with the boys here? All of them?
'Ma' Kate Barker: Sure, unless you're scared of my boys, Sheriff. Herman, give me that soap over there. And if you're scared of them, Sheriff, then I think I would keep my mouth shut if I was you.

'Ma' Kate Barker: I told you and I told you and I told you! You're not to curse in my house! What does that bastard want over here?

'Ma' Kate Barker: You're gonna find me. You're gonna find me someday in a palace. And if you don't find me in a palace, George, you ain't gonna find me. And when you find me and the boys in that palace, you come in through the kitchen door. And you remember, wipe your feet.

'Ma' Kate Barker: Come on, boys. Come on. Get moving. We're going. If the damn deputies left my boys alone, they'd be good. They'd be the best.

'Ma' Kate Barker: You're a good man. You made good sons. You've got all the equipment; but, you know, you never could make a decent living. You never did mount me proper. I guess your heart wasn't in it.

'Ma' Kate Barker: George did everything the way he was supposed to do it. He was a born loser, and I ain't! *And* you boys ain't. You gotta fight the bastards always, boys. You gotta remember you gotta fight 'em.

'Ma' Kate Barker: She's white trash, and probably filthy with disease, like all the other gals in this town! You understand? A smart boy, a smart boy stays with his equals! You understand that? The trouble is - my boys - my boys ain't got no equals in Joplin, Missouri.

'Ma' Kate Barker: We were all happy when Lindy made it to Paris. I like a man who took things in his own hands. My Herman was a lot like that.

'Ma' Kate Barker: You know, some people even tried to put through an anti-lynching bill in Congress? But a lot of folks went to Washington to help defeat it. Anyway, my boys and me were never much for politics.

'Ma' Kate Barker: Herman, tonight you'll sleep with Ma. You'll sleep with Ma. She'll keep away all the dreams.
Herman Barker: I didn't mean to kill him, Ma.
'Ma' Kate Barker: I know that you didn't, baby. I know that. In this world we can't always do what we wanna do, Herman. We can't always have what we wanna have. But, baby, we got each other.

'Ma' Kate Barker: We listened to Billy Sunday and Aimee Semple McPherson and put a little something extra in the plate at church. I knew if God got his, he'd see to it that we got ours.

'Ma' Kate Barker: The world was sure changing from when I was a little gal. Women was showing their bodies in public, smoking, doing God knows what else. I'm sure glad I didn't raise me any girls. Who knows how they'd have turned out?

'Ma' Kate Barker: Now the trouble with Jesus H. Christ, Lloyd - the trouble with our Lord was that he didn't have no smart, slick lawyer.

'Ma' Kate Barker: They did this to my Herman. They did this to my little Freddie.
Arthur Barker: Oh, hell, Ma, they just got caught.
'Ma' Kate Barker: Don't curse in my house. John Wilkes Booth just got caught. Jesus H. Christ just got caught! You with all your book learning. I'm not Mary, mother of God, so I'm gonna see that they get sprung.

'Ma' Kate Barker: You're different. You're a friend of Freddie. Freddie likes you and I'm aiming to pleasure myself with you.

'Ma' Kate Barker: Ladies, I want you to understand something. We is not sex perverts, you understand? I undressed you 'cause I don't want you running around too fast looking for help.

'Ma' Kate Barker: Herman, I got 300,000 bucks all set up for us just to take. Just to take it. Then your dumbbell of a brother, he brings that silly goon of a girl up here.
Herman Barker: She ain't no goon, Ma. Lloyd's the goon.
'Ma' Kate Barker: We gotta kill her, baby. We gotta. Herman, we gotta. We gotta drown her and drop the body in that bottomless lake.
Herman Barker: We ought to dump Lloyd's body in that bottomless lake, Ma.
'Ma' Kate Barker: That's immoral. That's beneath my contempt. Lloyd is your brother.
Herman Barker: So? Let Mona kill him for us. That way we'll keep it all outside the family. Scrub my back, Ma.