David Drumlin Ellie, still waiting for E.T. to call?
Played by Tom Skerritt 
Contact (1997) · 35 quotes
Contact (1997) · 35 quotes
3rd most-quoted character in Contact (1997): in 4 of its 35 quotes
Most scenes with: Ellie Arroway (3)
Scenes with David Drumlin
4 scenes David Drumlin David Drumlin I know you must think this is all very unfair. Maybe that's an understatement. What you don't know is I agree. I wish the world was a place where fair was the bottom line, where the kind of idealism you showed at the hearing was rewarded, not taken advantage of. Unfortunately, we don't live in that world.
Funny, I've always believed that the world is what we make of it.
Rachel Constantine
[about Adolf Hitler]
Twenty million people died defeating that son of a bitch, and he's our first ambassador to outer space?
Actually the Hitler broadcast from the...
David Drumlin [interrupting]
'36 olympics was the first television transmission of any power that went in to space. That they recorded it, and sent it back, is simply a way of saying "hello, we heard you."
Or, "Sieg Heil, you're our kind of people."
[Ellie Arroway sees a suspicious man inside the walkway leading to the transport machine, then turns a security camera with a joystick so it faces him.]
We've got a security problem here!
Security official
Are you sure?
Yeah. That man? [points to suspicious man on-screen] I know him! He's not supposed to be there!
[Ellie Arroway puts on a headset with a microphone attached to it.] [speaking to a technician]
Get me Drumlin on a secure loop please.
David Drumlin Yeah, I hear.
We have a security breach.
