Chinatown (1974)
Faye Dunaway: Evelyn Mulwray
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Quotes
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Evelyn Mulwray : Tell me, Mr. Gittes: Does this often happen to you?
Jake Gittes : What's that?
Evelyn Mulwray : Well, I'm judging only on the basis of one afternoon and an evening, but, uh, if this is how you go about your work, I'd say you'd be lucky to, uh, get through a whole day.
Jake Gittes : Actually, this hasn't happened to me for a long time.
Evelyn Mulwray : When was the last time?
Jake Gittes : Why?
Evelyn Mulwray : It's an innocent question.
Jake Gittes : In Chinatown.
Evelyn Mulwray : What were you doing there?
Jake Gittes : Working for the District Attorney.
Evelyn Mulwray : Doing what?
Jake Gittes : As little as possible.
Evelyn Mulwray : The District Attorney gives his men advice like that?
Jake Gittes : They do in Chinatown.
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Evelyn Mulwray : She's my daughter.
[Gittes slaps Evelyn]
Jake Gittes : I said I want the truth!
Evelyn Mulwray : She's my sister...
[slap]
Evelyn Mulwray : She's my daughter...
[slap]
Evelyn Mulwray : My sister, my daughter.
[More slaps]
Jake Gittes : I said I want the truth!
Evelyn Mulwray : She's my sister AND my daughter!
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Evelyn Mulwray : Hollis seems to think you're an innocent man.
Jake Gittes : Well, I've been accused of a lot of things before, Mrs. Mulwray, but never that.
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[Evelyn Mulwray drives while Gittes reads an obituary from the newspaper]
Jake Gittes : A memorial service was held at the Mar Vista Inn today for Jasper Lamar Crabb. He passed away two weeks ago.
Evelyn Mulwray : Why is that unusual?
Jake Gittes : He passed away two weeks ago and one week ago he bought the land. That's unusual.
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Jake Gittes : Maid's night off?
Evelyn Mulwray : Why?
Jake Gittes : What do you mean, why? Nobody's here, that's why.
Evelyn Mulwray : I gave everyone the night off.
Jake Gittes : Easy. It's an innocent question.
Evelyn Mulwray : No question from you is innocent, Mr. Gittes.
Jake Gittes : I guess you're right.
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Noah Cross : Katherine! I, I'm your grandfather, my dear. I'm your grandfather.
Evelyn Mulwray : [pushes Katherine into the car] Katherine, get in the car.
[to her butler]
Evelyn Mulwray : Go on. No no, go on.
[to Curly]
Evelyn Mulwray : I'll follow you.
[to her father]
Evelyn Mulwray : Get away from her! Get away.
Noah Cross : Evelyn, please, please be reasonable.
[to Katherine]
Noah Cross : Come to my...
Evelyn Mulwray : [pushes her father away] Get AWAY from her!
Noah Cross : Evelyn! How many years have I got? She's mine, too.
Evelyn Mulwray : She's never going to know that.
[pulls a gun on him]
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Jake Gittes : May I speak frankly, Mrs. Mulwray.
Evelyn Mulwray : You may if you can, Mr. Gittes.
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Jake Gittes : Evelyn, put that gun away. Let the police handle this.
Evelyn Mulwray : He owns the police!
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Jake Gittes : There's no point in getting tough with me. I'm just...
Evelyn Mulwray : I don't get tough with anyone, Mr. Gittes. My lawyer does.
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[Evelyn Mulwray and Gittes in her bathroom]
Jake Gittes : There's something black in the green part of your eye.
Evelyn Mulwray : Oh, that. It's a... it's a flaw in the iris.
Jake Gittes : Flaw?
Evelyn Mulwray : Yes, it's a sort of birthmark.
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Evelyn Mulwray : I see you like publicity, Mr. Gittes. Well, you're going to get it.
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Jake Gittes : Look, I do matrimonial work, It's my metiay. When a wife tells me that she's happy her husband is cheating on her, it runs contrary to my experience.
Evelyn Mulwray : Unless what?
Jake Gittes : She was cheating on him.
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Jake Gittes : Look, you sue me, your husband dies, you drop the lawsuit like a hot potato, and all of it quicker than wind from a duck's ass - excuse me. Then you ask me to lie to the police.
Evelyn Mulwray : It wasn't much of a lie.
Jake Gittes : If your husband was killed it was.
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Jake Gittes : Does my talking about your father upset you?
Evelyn Mulwray : Why, no! Yes, a little. You see Hollis and my fa - my father had a falling out - finally.
Jake Gittes : Over you or over the water department?
Evelyn Mulwray : Not over me. Why should it - be over me?
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Evelyn Mulwray : You really don't like to talk about the past, do you?
Jake Gittes : I'm tired.
Evelyn Mulwray : No. Why does it bother you to talk about it.
Jake Gittes : It bothers everybody that works there.
Evelyn Mulwray : Where?
Jake Gittes : Chinatown. Everybody. To me it was just bad luck.
Evelyn Mulwray : Why?
Jake Gittes : You can't always tell what's going on.
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Evelyn Mulwray : Cherchez la femme.
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Jake Gittes : It's nothing personal, Mrs. Mulwray.
Evelyn Mulwray : It's very personal! It couldn't be more personal. Is this a business or an obsession with you?
Jake Gittes : Let's look at it this way. Now this phony broad, excuse the language, says tells me she's you. She hires me. Now, whoever put her up to it, doesn't have anything against me. They're out to get your husband.