Jake Gittes: What the hell is going on here, Lou?Lt. Escobar: I don't know. What's going on? What's happening with you?
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.
Lt. Escobar: Isn't that your phone number?Jake Gittes: Is it? I forget. I don't call myself that often.
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.