Night Moves (1975)

Jennifer Warren: Paula

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Quotes 

• Paula : How do you resist Delly?

  Harry Moseby : Oh, I just think good, clean thoughts, like Thanksgiving, George Washington's teeth.

• Paula : Where were you when Kennedy got shot?

  Harry Moseby : Which Kennedy?

  Paula : Any Kennedy.

  Harry Moseby : When the president got shot, I was on my way to San Diego. Football game. When Bobby got shot, I was sitting in a car waiting for a guy to come out of a house with his girlfriend. Working on a divorce case. One of those times I wish I was in another business.

• Paula : When we're all as free as Delly there'll be rioting in the streets.

• Harry Moseby : What'd you do before this?

  Paula : [coyly]  This and that...

  Paula : [pauses, gives him a look]  I taught school, I... kept house. I waited tables... I did a little stripping, I did a little hooking... and I trod a lot of water.

  Harry Moseby : Sounds kind of bleak. Or is it just the way you tell it?

  Paula : [sharply]  Do you ask these questions because you wanna' know the answer, or is it just something you think a detective should do?

  Harry Moseby : I just want you to know I'm here.

• Paula : Oh, that's a beauty.

  Harry Moseby : Yeah, but he didn't see it. He played something else and he lost. He must have regretted it every day of his life. I know I would have. As a matter of fact I do regret it, and I wasn't even born yet.

  Paula : That's no excuse.

• Paula : [of the uninhibited Delly]  Did she offer you the key to the city?

  Harry Moseby : Well, no. It was, uh, more like a sightseeing tour.

• Paula : Do you ask these questions because you wanna know the answer or is it just something you think a detective should do?

• Harry Moseby : [observing Paula, who is feeding dolphins in a special pen]  What do you got 'em for?

  Paula : Well, there's a big demand for dolphins. Lots of people want 'em, you'd be surprised. People buy them for their swimming pools. They think it's chic to have a dolphin for a pet. Like that craze for baby alligators in New York years back. When they got bored with 'em, they flushed them down the john. Now they got a sewage system swarming with blind, albino, shit-eating alligators.

  Harry Moseby : [listening with a bemused look on his face]  I'm not too sure I believe that.

  Paula : You're not one of those "intent on the truth" types, are you?

  Harry Moseby : Well, not religious about it, no, but I...

• Harry Moseby : How long you been on the Keys?

  Paula : Long enough.

  Harry Moseby : And you don't like it?

  Paula : I like the sun... I'm convalescing.

  Harry Moseby : What from?

  Paula : A terrible childhood. My father used to blow his nose with his fingers.

  Harry Moseby : That'll do it every time.