Night of the Living Dead (1968)

Marilyn Eastman: Helen Cooper

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Quotes 

• Helen Cooper : We may not enjoy living together, but dying together isn't going to solve anything.

• Harry Cooper : [referring to everybody else, who are all upstairs]  Let them stay upstairs. Let them. Too many ways those monsters can get in here. We'll see who's right. We'll see, when they come begging me to let them in down here.

  Helen Cooper : That's important, isn't it?

  Harry Cooper : What?

  Helen Cooper : To be right, everybody else to be wrong.

  Harry Cooper : What do you mean by that?

• Harry Cooper : [to Barbara]  Now you'd better watch this and try to understand what's going on.

  [Ben looks at him] 

  Harry Cooper : I don't want anyone's life on my hands.

  Helen Cooper : Is there anything I can do...?

  Ben : I don't wanna hear any more from you, Mister! If you stay up here, you take orders from ME! And that includes leaving the girl alone!

• Harry Cooper : Helen! I have to get that gun!

  Helen Cooper : Haven't you had ENOUGH?

  Harry Cooper : Look, two people are already dead on account of that guy! Take a look out that window!

• Ben : Do you know anything about this area at all? I mean, is Willard the nearest town?

  Helen Cooper : I don't know. We were driving and just trying to get to a motel before dark. That's when we spotted a group of those things on the road...

  Ben : You said those things turned your car over. Do you think we can get it back on its wheels and drive it? Where is it?

  Helen Cooper : It seems like it's pretty far. After we got away, we just ran and ran until we spotted this farmhouse and...

  Harry Cooper : Forget it! It's at least a mile.

  Barbra : [still delusional]  Johnny has the keys.

  Harry Cooper : [to Barbra]  Oh, are you going to carry our kid a mile... through that army of things out there?

  Ben : I can carry the kid. What's wrong with her? How'd she get hurt?

  Helen Cooper : One of those things grabbed her...

  Harry Cooper : Bit her on her arm.

  [Ben sighs with worry] 

  Helen Cooper : What's wrong?

  Ben : Who knows what kind of diseases those things carry? Is she conscious?

  Helen Cooper : Barely.

  Harry Cooper : She can't walk. She's too weak.

  Ben : [after a short pause]  Well... one of us should try to get to the car!

  Harry Cooper : Are you gonna turn it over by yourself?