Paula quotes from Night Moves (1975)

Paula

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

Paula

Oh, that's a beauty.

Harry

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

How do you resist Delly?

Harry

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

Paula

Where were you when Kennedy got shot?

Harry

Which Kennedy?

Paula

Any Kennedy.

Harry

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.

Harry Moseby

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

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

What'd you do before this?

Paula

This and that... [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

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.