Night Moves (1975)
Gene Hackman: Harry Moseby
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Quotes
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Ellen Moseby : [of a football game] Who's winning?
Harry Moseby : Nobody. One side is just losing slower than the other.
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Harry Moseby : I saw a Rohmer film once. It was kind of like watching paint dry.
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Arlene Iverson : Caught me in my bath.
Harry Moseby : I'm sorry.
Arlene Iverson : [seductively] Oh, that's all right. You could've joined me. It's a big bath.
Harry Moseby : [with a wry grin] Maybe some other time, when I'm feeling really dirty.
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Tom Iverson : I want that kid the hell out of here. You see, I... I get pretty foolish with her, and I... Well, you've seen her. God, there ought to be a law!
Harry Moseby : There is.
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Harry Moseby : Listen Delly, I know it doesn't make much sense when you're sixteen. Don't worry. When you get to be forty, it isn't any better.
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Harry Moseby : You told me fairy tales... About Malone... Billy Danreuther... The President getting shot... Your erect nipples!
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Harry Moseby : What happened to your face?
Quentin : I won second prize in a fight.
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Paula : How do you resist Delly?
Harry Moseby : Oh, I just think good, clean thoughts, like Thanksgiving, George Washington's teeth.
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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.
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Harry Moseby : Harry thinks if you call him Harry again he's gonna make you eat that cat!
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Arlene Iverson : Are you the kind of detective who, once you get on a case nothing can get you off it? Bribes, beatings, the allure of a woman...
Harry Moseby : That was true in the old days. Before we had a union.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Nick : [about his collection of Mexican statuary] Don't you like them, Har?
Harry Moseby : I would, if they didn't all remind me of Alex Karras.
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Arlene Iverson : [shows Harry a picture] This is my second husband, Tom lverson, the bum. The only thing I got out of him was a new name. That's *ahfter* I quit acting. Did you ever see me in anything?
Harry Moseby : [Harry draws a blank face, chuckles and shakes his head]
Arlene Iverson : I was never "big," not really big. There were a lot like me. You know, studio premieres, studio romances, not much talent. But I got lucky and grabbed off one of the big guns, Irving Grastner.
Arlene Iverson : Oh, I had lovely tits... even if I do say so myself.
Arlene Iverson : [sighs] Ahh, they're sitting on a little bit of silicone now... but when they were up for grabs, they were really something special.
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Harry Moseby : I'm looking for Delly Grastner.
Quentin : Delly isn't around here anymore.
Harry Moseby : You got any idea where she could be? Is she visiting friends? Is she meditating? Did she join a commune?
Quentin : [scoffs] Delly's idea of a "commune" is her and a guy on top of her.
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Harry Moseby : You think Delly knew that Marv and her mother were making it?
Joey Ziegler : A blind man on a galloping horse would've known. Arlene ain't Lillian Gish.
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Harry Moseby : [speculating that the missing daughter, Delly, may be in Florida with her stepfather] My guess is that I should go down there.
Arlene Iverson : [melodramatically] You're gonna' go *all the way to Florida* on a guess?
Harry Moseby : No. I'm gonna' *fly* all the way to Florida on *your* money, Mrs. Iverson. It's up to you.
Arlene Iverson : [indifferently] Go ahead.
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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...
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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.
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Harry Moseby : You ever see Tom lverson?
Joey Ziegler : It's been about a year, year and a half. Last I heard, he was taking tourists down the Colorado River on rafts. He's another guy that can only do one thing, and *that* has gotta' be crazy.