Sheriff Brackett Excuse me, Laurie...I didn't mean to startle you...You know, it's Halloween. I guess everyone's entitled to one good scare.
Played by Charles Cyphers 
Halloween (1978) · 35 quotes
Halloween (1978) · 35 quotes
3rd most-quoted character in Halloween (1978): in 6 of its 35 quotes
Most scenes with: Dr. Sam Loomis (3)
Probably kids...and all they took was some Halloween masks, a rope, and a couple of knives.
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You know, you could ask somebody...Sure you could. All you have to do is go up to somebody and say, 'You wanna go to the dance?'...Ben Traymer, I knew it! So you do think about things like that, huh Laurie?
Sheriff Brackett Every kid in Haddonfield thinks this place is haunted.
They may be right. Look!
Sheriff Brackett What is that?
It's a dog.
Sheriff Brackett It's still warm.
He got hungry.
Sheriff Brackett ...It coulda been a skunk.
Could have, huh?
Sheriff Brackett A man wouldn't do that.
This isn't a man.
Sheriff Brackett I have a feeling that you're way off on this.
You have the wrong feeling.
Sheriff Brackett You're not doing very much to prove me wrong!
What more do you need?
Sheriff Brackett Well, it's going to take a lot more than fancy talk to keep me up all night crawling around these bushes.
I watched him for fifteen years, sitting in a room staring at a wall, not seeing the wall, looking past the wall, looking at this night, inhumanly patient, waiting for some secret, silent alarm to trigger him off. Death has come to your little town, Sheriff. You can either ignore it or you can help me to stop it.
Sheriff Brackett More fancy talk.
[pulling his gun after being startled by a crash]
You must think me a very sinister doctor... oh, I have a permit.
Sheriff Brackett Seems to me you're just plain scared.
Yeah, yeah I am...
