Lt. Escobar: Isn't that your phone number?Jake Gittes: Is it? I forget. I don't call myself that often.
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.
Noah Cross: Exactly what do you know about me? Sit down.Jake Gittes: Mainly that you're rich, too respectable to want your name in the newspapers.Noah Cross: Of course I'm respectable I'm old! Politicians ugly buildings and whores all get respectable if they last long enough.
Jake Gittes: Do you accept people of the Jewish persuasion?Mr. Palmer: I'm sorry, we do not.Jake Gittes: Don't apologize - neither does Dad.