Contact (1997)

Angela Bassett: Rachel Constantine

Quotes 

• Rachel Constantine : I assume you read the confidential findings report from the investigating committee.

  Michael Kitz : I flipped through it.

  Rachel Constantine : I was especially interested in the section on Arroway's video unit. The one that recorded the static?

  Michael Kitz : Continue.

  Rachel Constantine : The fact that it recorded static isn't what interests me.

  Michael Kitz : [pauses]  Continue.

  Rachel Constantine : What interests me is that it recorded approximately eighteen hours of it.

  Michael Kitz : [leans forward so he is looking directly in the camera]  That is interesting, isn't it?

• Rachel Constantine : [about Adolf Hitler]  Twenty million people died defeating that son of a bitch, and he's our first ambassador to outer space?

  Ellie Arroway : Actually the Hitler broadcast from the...

  David Drumlin : [interrupting]  '36 olympics was the first television transmission of any power that went in to space. That they recorded it, and sent it back, is simply their way of saying "hello, we heard you."

  Michael Kitz : Or, "Sieg Heil, you're our kind of people."

• Ellie Arroway : Mrs. Constantine? May I have a word with you?

  Rachel Constantine : Certainly.

  Ellie Arroway : Um, I have a big problem.

  Rachel Constantine : Yes?

  Ellie Arroway : Uh, do you know where I can find like a really great dress?