Evelyn Quotes

Jake Gittes: How much are you worth?
Noah Cross: I have no idea. How much do you want?
Jake Gittes: I just wanna know what you're worth. More than 10 million?
Noah Cross: Oh my, yes!
Jake Gittes: Why are you doing it? How much better can you eat? What could you buy that you can't

already afford?
Noah Cross: The future, Mr. Gittes! The future. Now, where's the girl? I want the only daughter I've got left. As you found out, Evelyn was lost to me a long time ago.
Jake Gittes: Who do you blame for that? Her?
Noah Cross: I don't blame myself. You see, Mr. Gittes, most people never have to face the fact that

at the right time and the right place, they're capable of ANYTHING.

Lt. Escobar: You must really think I'm stupid, don't you, Gittes.
Jake Gittes: I don't think about it that much, but gimme a day or two and I'll get back to yuh. Now I'd like to go home.
Lt. Escobar: I want the other pictures, Gittes.
Jake Gittes: What pictures?
Lt. Escobar: THIS broad

hired you, not Evelyn Mulwray.
Jake Gittes: Yeah?
Lt. Escobar: Yeah. Somebody wanted to shake Mulwray down; she hired you. That's how come you found out he was murdered.
Jake Gittes: I heard it was an accident.
Lt. Escobar: C'mon, Gittes. The hell d'you think you're dealing with? A bunch of assholes?

Mulwray had salt water in his lungs. You were following him day and night; you SAW who killed him. You even took pictures of it. It was Evelyn Mulwray, and she's been payin' you off like a slot machine ever since.
Jake Gittes: You accusin' me of extortion?
Lt. Escobar: Absolutely!
Jake Gittes: I don't think I need a day or

two; you're dumber than you think I think y'are.

[a woman identifying herself as Evelyn Mulwray is hiring Gittes]
Jake Gittes: What makes you certain that your husband is, um, involved with someone?
Mrs. Mulwray: A wife can tell.
Jake Gittes: Mrs. Mulwray, do you love your husband?
Mrs. Mulwray: Yes, of course.
Jake Gittes:

Then go home and forget everything.

Evelyn Deavor: [Jack Jack enters the control room where the mind-controlled Helen, Bob, and Lucius are in; Evelyn is watching this via tv screens in her office] Wha- a baby?
Violet Parr, Dashiell 'Dash' Parr: [entering room via elevator, having followed Jack Jack] Mom? Dad? Lucius?
[Helen, Bob and Lucius attack the kids, but

Violet projects a force field. Jack Jack telekinetically floats out of the force field]
Evelyn Deavor: A super baby?
[the mind-controlled Helen grabs Jack Jack and holds him out in front of her]
Jack-Jack Parr: [Jack-Jack babbles happily, then notices that his mother's eyes are concealed by the glasses she wearing and is not noticing him.

Jack-Jack scowls and starts to telekinetically remove the goggles]
Helen Parr: [Elastigirl blinks, coming back from her hypnotized state; gasps] Huh!
Evelyn Deavor: [shocked] What? No! No! Put him down! No! Put him down!
[Jack Jack completely takes the goggles off his mother, Helen and telekinetically throws them on the floor]

Helen Parr: Kids?

[first lines]
Max Waters: They say there's power in Boston. Some phone service in Denver. But things are far from what they were. Maybe it was all invevitable. An unavoidable collision between mankind and technology. The Internet was meant to make the world a smaller place. But it actually feels smaller without it. I knew Will and Evelyn Caster better than anyone. I knew

their brillance. Their dedication to what they believed in. And to what they loved.

Detective Fowler: If this woman's such a God-damned Saint, how did she end up raising four total fuck-ups?
Lt. Green: Miss Evelyn cycled hundreds of kids out of the foster program and into permanent homes. In 30 years she only came across four lost causes. Four delinquents so far gone she couldn't find anyone to take them in. So she did. Trust me, Fowler,

these kids are congressmen compared to what they would've been