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"A Comedy of Trial and Error"
"There have been many courtroom dramas that have glorified The Great American Legal System. This is not one of them."
"Joe Pesci - Vincent LaGuardia Gambini"
"Marisa Tomei - Mona Lisa Vito"
"Ralph Macchio - Bill Gambini"
"Mitchell Whitfield - Stan Rothenstein"
"Fred Gwynne - Judge Chamberlain Haller"
"Lane Smith - D.A. Jim Trotter"
"Bruce McGill - Sheriff Farley"
"James Rebhorn - George Wilbur"
"What's wrong with me? [suddenly monotone] I'm getting what I deserve, I'm reaping what I sow, I- [claps both hand over his mouth while involuntarily ranting]"
"[after farting in the elevator] It was me!"
"I'M AN INCONSIDERATE PRICK!!!"
"STOP BREAKING THE LAW, ASSHOOOOOLE!!!!"
"Would I lie to you?"
"Jim Carrey - Fletcher Reede"
"Maura Tierney - Audrey Reede"
"Justin Cooper - Max Reede"
"Jennifer Tilly - Samantha Cole"
"Cary Elwes - Jerry"
"Amanda Donohoe - Miranda"
"Well, I'm not used to supposin'. I'm just a workin' man. My boss does all the supposin'-- but I'll try one. Supposin' you talk us all out of this and, uh, the kid really did knife his father?"
"[To #3 after he insults #9] What are you talkin' to him like that for? Guy talks like that to an old man really oughta get stepped on, you know. You oughta have more respect, mister. If you say stuff like that to him again... I'm gonna lay you out."
"It’s very hard to keep personal prejudice out of a thing like this. And no matter where you run into it, prejudice obscures the truth."
"[Juror #7 has been throwing bits of paper at the fan. One of them bounces off it and hits #9 in the head.] That's a damn stupid thing to do."
"[Revealing that he was the first to join #8 in voting not guilty] This gentleman has been standing alone against us. It's not easy to stand alone against the ridicule of others. So he gambled for support - and I gave it to him."
"Gentlemen, that's a very sad thing...to be nothing."
"It's pretty tough to figure, isn't it? A kid kills his father. Bing! Just like that... It's the element... I'm telling ya, they let those kids run wild up there. Well, maybe it serves 'em right."
"Oh, listen, I don't see what all this stuff about the knife has got to do with anything. Somebody saw the kid stab his Father, what more do we need? You guys can talk the ears right off my head you know what I mean? I got three garages of mine going to pot while you're talking! So let's get down and get out of here!"
"Judge: If there's a reasonable doubt in your minds as to the guilt of the accused, a reasonable doubt, then you must bring me a verdict of not guilty. If however, there is no reasonable doubt, then you must in good conscience find the accused guilty. However you decide, your verdict must be unanimous. In the event that you find the accused guilty, the bench will not entertain a recommendation for mercy. The death sentence is mandatory in this case. You are faced with a grave responsibility. Thank you, gentlemen."
"Martin Balsam - Juror #1"
"John Fiedler - Juror #2"
"Lee J. Cobb - Juror #3"
"E.G. Marshall - Juror #4"
"Jack Klugman - Juror #5"
"Ed Binns - Juror #6"
"Jack Warden - Juror #7"
"Henry Fonda - Juror #8 (Davis)"
"Joseph Sweeney - Juror #9 (McCardle)"
"Ed Begley - Juror #10"
"George Voskovec - Juror #11"
"Robert Webber - Juror #12"
"First thing I ask a new client is, "Have you been saving for a rainy day? Well, guess what? It's raining!""
"Why gamble with money when you can gamble with people's lives? That was a joke. All right, I'll tell you. I believe in the notion that people are innocent until proven guilty. I believe in that notion because I choose to believe in the basic goodness of people. I choose to believe that not all crimes are committed by bad people. And I try to understand that some very, very good people do some very bad things."
"I got you now. You're the lawyer. You're his lawyer, ain't you? With your fancy suit. I heard about you. Well, my, my, you sure fucked this one up, counselor. Sounds to me like they're gonna shoot old Aaron so full of poison it'll come out his eyes!"
"He come crying to me like always, stuttering and whining. "I ca-can't take it no more, Roy. You g-got to help me". I said, "Shut your mouth, you little girl! Grow up. Be a man. Take care of yourself"."
"Janet Venable: Do you know what I would do if someone did that to me? I would kill him—I wouldn't hesitate. I would stab him 78 times. I would chop off his fingers, slash his throat open, carve numbers in his chest, gouge out his eyes, I swear to God! But that's me."
"Judge Miriam Shoat: You are making a mockery of my courtroom, and I'm not going to allow it. I suggest you start representing your client and stop representing yourself."
"Sooner or later a man who wears two faces forgets which one is real."
"Don't believe everything you see..."
"Richard Gere - Martin Vail"
"Laura Linney - Janet Venable"
"Edward Norton - Aaron Stampler/Roy"
"John Mahoney - John Shaughnessy"
"Frances McDormand - Dr. Molly Arrington"
"Alfre Woodard - Judge Miriam Shoat"
"Terry O'Quinn - Bud Yancy"
"Andre Braugher - Tommy Goodman"
"Steven Bauer - Joey Pinero"
"Joe Spano - Capt. Abel Stenner"
"Tony Plana - Martinez"
"Stanley Anderson - Archbishop Richard Rushman"
"Maura Tierney - Naomi Chance"
"Jon Seda - Alex"
"The definition of rehabilitate: To restore to a state of physical, mental, and moral health through treatment and training."
"When you try to win, sometimes you lose sight of the goal."
"Unlike many men who lived long after, Henri Young did not die in vain. In the end he was not afraid. He lived and he died in triumph. If only we could all do that."
"Charles Dickens once said that solitary confinement was inhumane. Seven months later, the Supreme Court agreed. As a a result of the facts brought out in the trail of The People vs. Young, the dungeons of Alcatraz were closed forever. Associate warden Glenn was brought up on charges of mistreatment. He was found guilty. He would never work in the penal system again. I remained in private practice. I also became a baseball fan. You did it, Henri!"
"Action: I won. Reaction: you can't never take that away from me."
"I got nothin'. I got nobody. I don't need a lawyer, I need a friend."
"Some men are broken by the laws that they break, unable to resist the forces that are pulling them down. Other men live by the rules that society sets down. You're not one of them."
"Judge Clawson: I do not need you to tell me what is, or is not okay. In this courtroom, I am the one who decides what is, or is not okay. Okay?"
"Blanche, Hooker: Honey, you're gonna have to get it up first. It's like trying to stick an oyster into a slot machine."
"They locked him up. They crushed his spirit. But they couldn't hide the truth."
"One was condemned. The other was determined. Two men whose friendship gave them the will to take on the system."
"The trial that brought down Alcatraz."
""I accuse Alcatraz of crimes against humanity." – The lawyer "I was a weapon, but I ain't no killer." – The accused "I am not on trial here." – The warden"
"One broke his silence. The other broke the system."
"Kevin Bacon – Henri Young"
"Christian Slater – James Stamphill"
"Gary Oldman – Milton Glenn"
"Embeth Davidtz – Mary McCasslin"
"William H. Macy – D.A. William McNeil"
"Stephen Tobolowsky – Mr. Henkin"
"Brad Dourif – Byron Stamphill"
"R. Lee Ermey – Judge Clawson"
"Mia Kirshner – Adult Rosetta Young"
"Ben Slack – Jerry Hoolihan"
"Stefan Gierasch – Warden James Humson"
"Kyra Sedgwick – Blanche, Hooker"
"If the First Amendment will protect a scumbag like me, it will protect all of you."
"If you don't like Hustler magazine, don't read it."
"[to Alan] You don't want to quit me, I'm your dream client: I'm the most fun, I'm rich, and I'm always in trouble."
"I got money, which gives me the power to shake up the system."
"Why do I have to go to jail to protect your freedom?"
"[Incredulous after prison sentence] Twenty-five years? All I'm guilty of is bad taste."
"I think the real obscenity comes from raisin' our youth to believe that sex is bad and ugly and dirty and yet it is heroic to go spill guts and blood in the most ghastly manner in the name of humanity. With all the taboos attached to sex, it's no wonder we have the problems we have. It's no wonder we're angry and violent and genocidal. But ask yourself the question. What is more obscene? Sex or war?"
"Opinions are like assholes, everybody's got one."
"What is more obscene: Sex or war?"
"These are my friends - lots of money, lots of friends."
"[Walking past protesters protesting outside his strip club] Thank you all for coming. Welcome to my establishment, we welcome Christians in here too."
"Unpopular speech is absolutely vital to the health of our nation."
"Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, you have heard a lot today, and I'm not gonna go back over it, but you have to go into that room and make some decisions. But before you do, there's something you need to know. I am not trying to suggest that you should like what Larry Flynt does. I don't like what Larry Flynt does, but what I do like is the fact that I live in a country where you and I can make that decision for ourselves. I like the fact that I live in a country where I can pick up Hustler magazine and read it, or throw it in the garbage can if that's where I think it belongs."
"At the heart of the First Amendment is the recognition of the fundamental importance of the free flow of ideas. Freedom to speak one's mind is not only an aspect of an individual liberty, but is essential to the quest for truth and the vitality of society as a whole. In the world of debate about public affairs, many things done with motives that are less than admirable are nonetheless protected by the first amendment."
"The reign of Christian terror is over. We're going back to our roots. We are smut peddlers again."
"Nobody on this planet wants their religion and their pornography together."
"Larry, I don't work at the magazine anymore. People there don't listen to me and they don't talk to me. They're afraid of me and they don't shake my hand... Larry, I went to Dr. Robert and... he told me that I was sick. I mean, sick, sick. I mean, I've got AIDS, Larry."
"Good morning ladies and gentlemen. Before we begin, I must apologize for the unpleasantness of this task. What you are about to see is going to take your breath away. "Hustler" magazine depicts men and women posed together in a lewd and shameful manner. "Hustler" magazine depicts women and women posed together in a lewd and shameful manner. "Hustler" magazine depicts Santa Claus posed in a lewd and shameful manner."
"Woody Harrelson - Larry Flynt"
"Courtney Love - Althea Leasure"
"Edward Norton - Alan Isaacman"
"Richard Paul - Jerry Falwell"
"James Cromwell - Charles Keating"
"Donna Hanover - Ruth Carter Stapleton"
"Crispin Glover - Arlo"
"Vincent Schiavelli - Chester"
"Brett Harrelson - Jimmy Flynt"
"Miles Chapin - Miles"
"James Carville - Simon Leis"
"Burt Neuborne - Roy Grutman"
"Jan Tříska - The Assassin"
"Norm Macdonald - Network reporter"
"Larry Flynt - Judge Morrissey"
"Gentlemen, trials are too important to be left up to juries."
"You think your average juror is King Solomon? No! He's a roofer with a mortgage. He wants to go home and sit in his Barcalounger and let the cable TV wash over him. And this man doesn't give a single, solitary droplet of shit about truth, justice or your American way."
"Everybody has a secret they don't want you to find. Find it!"
"We like fat women, people!"
"Ah, I hate Baptists almost as much as I hate Democrats."
"You may be right, but the thing of it is, I don't give a shit. What's more... I never have."
"Ladies and Gentlemen, this girl is an amateur. Do you understand? A dilettante. And I want this nonsense ended today! I want you to find her. I want you to contain her! Because you're losing me my jury!"
"What do you hope to achieve if you win? You gonna bring Jacob Wood back to life? No. You just ensure that his wife goes to the cemetery in a better car, and that the heel that she snaps on the way to the graveside belongs to a $1,200 shoe. You get your name in the paper. But Jacob Wood and all the other gun violence victims remain rotting in their crypts."
"Nicholas Easter: [after anti-gun fanatic is dragged kicking and screaming from the courtroom during jury selection, even though he claims he want to be heard] Well, I guess that's lunch..."
"Henry Jankle: ...I was under the impression that we'd already purchased ourselves a verdict."
"Wendell Rohr: Gentlemen, I have lost my footing in this trial."
"Judge Harkin: I'm not sure, but I believe I'm buying lunch."
"Doyle: It's a set-up. Don't do it!"
"John Cusack - Nicholas "Nick" Easter"
"Gene Hackman - Rankin Fitch"
"Dustin Hoffman - Wendell Rohr"
"Rachel Weisz - Marlee"
"Jeremy Piven - Lawrence Greene"
"Bruce Davison - Durwood Cable"
"Bruce McGill - Judge Frederick Harkin"
"Marguerite Moreau - Amanda Monroe"
"Nick Searcy - Doyle"
"Leland Orser - Lamb"
"Gerry Bamman - Herman Grimes"
"Lori Heuring - Maxine"
"Nestor Serrano - Janovich"
"Joanna Going - Celeste Wood"
"Cliff Curtis - Frank Herrera"
"Dylan McDermott - Jacob Wood"
"I am constantly surprised that women's hats do not provoke more murders."
"My Lord, may I also remind my learned friend that his witness, by her own admission, has already violated so many oaths that I am surprised the Testament did not LEAP FROM HER HAND when she was sworn here today! I doubt if anything is to be gained by questioning you any further! That will be all, Frau Helm!"
"[last lines; hands Sir Wilfrid his thermos bottle] Sir Wilfrid, you've forgotten your brandy!"
"Tyrone Power - Leonard Vole (final film role)"
"Marlene Dietrich - Christine Vole/Helm"
"Charles Laughton - Sir Wilfrid Robarts Q.C."
"Elsa Lanchester - Miss Plimsoll"
"John Williams - Mr. Brogan-Moore"
"Henry Daniell - Mayhew"
"Ian Wolfe - Carter"
"Torin Thatcher - Mr. Myers"
"Norma Varden - Mrs Emily Jane French"
"Una O'Connor - Janet McKenzie"
"Francis Compton - the Judge"
"Philip Tonge - Chief Inspector Hearne"
"Ruta Lee - Diana"
"At this point, I would just like to say that what this committee is doing in theory is highly commendable. However, in practice, it sucks... and I'm not going to answer any more questions."
"[about Judge Rayford] This is a man bent on killing himself! It's no secret; a guard found him in his chambers once trying to hang himself! This is a man who's making value decisions on people's lives!"
"Sorry, Your Honor. Let's get back to justice. What is justice? What is the intention of justice? The intention of justice is to see that the guilty people are proven guilty and that the innocent are freed. Simple, isn't it? Only it's not that simple. However, it is the defense counsel's duty to protect the rights of the individual, as it is the prosecution's duty to uphold and defend the laws of the State. Justice for all. Only we have a problem here. And you know what it is? Both sides wanna win. We wanna win. We wanna win regardless of the truth. And we wanna win regardless of justice, regardless of who's guilty or innocent. Winning is everything!"
"Sixteen years of marriage and my wife still won't eat Chinese food. It's crazy, especially since we met in a Chinese restaurant."
"[After he fires a gun in his courtroom, to stop an argument] Gentlemen, need I remind you we are in a court of law? [long pause] Now, let's proceed in an orderly fashion."
"Prison should be a frightening place. Let those criminals create their own hellhole....I tell you, Arthur, the idea of punishment to fit the crime doesn't work. We need unjust punishment. Hang somebody for armed robbery. Try it! We've got nothin' to lose. Do you understand what I'm sayin' to you, for God's sake? You don't, do you? Oh! You fellas with your fancy ideas of rehabilitation. I tell you that the concept of rehabilitation is a farce. Do you honestly think that, that bringing Johnny Cash into prisons to sing railroad songs is gonna rehabilitate anyone? Most people are sick and tired of mugging and crime in the streets...[Arthur leaves] Arthur? Arthur?"
"Jeff McCullaugh: If everybody agrees I'm innocent, how come I'm going BACK to jail?"
"Carl Travers: I haven't left the scene of the accident, I'm in it!"
"Al Pacino - Arthur Kirkland"
"Jack Warden - Judge Francis Rayford"
"John Forsythe - Judge Henry T. Fleming"
"Lee Strasberg - Sam Kirkland"
"Jeffrey Tambor - Jay Porter"
"Christine Lahti - Gail Packer"
"Sam Levene - Arnie"
"Robert Christian - Ralph Agee"
"Thomas Waites - Jeff McCullaugh"
"Larry Bryggman - Warren Fresnell"
"Dominic Chianese - Carl Travers"
"Craig T. Nelson - Frank Bowers"
"I've been sober for three years."
"The court declared me unfit."
"I don't want a lawyer, I hate lawyers. Every lawyer we had just shafted me and my mom. I said I need a lawyer."
"Thanks, Reverend Roy. You've been a real pain in the ass."
"Susan Sarandon as Regina "Reggie" Love"
"Tommy Lee Jones as "Reverend" Roy Foltrigg"
"Brad Renfro as Mark Sway"
"Mary Louise Parker as Dianne Sway"
"David Speck as Ricky Sway"
"Anthony LaPaglia as Barry "The Blade" Muldanno"
"J. T. Walsh as Jason McThune"
"Anthony Heald as Larry Trumann"
"Bradley Whitford as Thomas Fink"
"Micole Mercurio as Momma Love"
"Ossie Davis as Judge Harry Rossevelt"
"Will Patton as Sergeant Hardy"
"Dan Castellaneta as Slick Moeller"
"Ron Dean as Uncle Johnny Sulari"
"Kim Coates as Paul Gronke"
"William H. Macy as Dr. Greenway"
"Kimberly Scott as Doreen"
"Walter Olkewicz as Jerome "Romey" Clifford"
"We're standing here in Philadelphia, the, uh, city of brotherly love, the birthplace of freedom, where the, uh, founding fathers authored the Declaration of Independence, and I don't recall that glorious document saying anything about all straight men are created equal. I believe it says all men are created equal."
"Now, explain it to me like I'm a two-year-old."
"Some of these people make me sick, Philco. But a law's been broken. You remember the law, don't you?"
"Ladies and gentlemen of the jury. Forget everything you've seen on television and in the movies. There's not gonna be any last minute surprise witnesses. Nobody's gonna break down on the stand with a tearful confession. You're gonna be presented with a simple fact: Andrew Beckett was fired. You'll hear two explanations for why he was fired: ours and theirs. It is up to you to sift through layer upon layer of truth until you determine for yourselves which version sounds the most true. There are certain points that I must prove to you."
"Point number one, Andrew Beckett was - is a brilliant lawyer, great lawyer. Point number two, Andrew Beckett, afflicted with a debilitating disease, made the understandable, the personal, the legal choice to keep the fact of his illness to himself. Point number three, his employers discovered his illness, and ladies and gentlemen, the illness I am referring to is AIDS. Point number four, they panicked. And in their panic, they did what most of us would like to do with AIDS, which is just get it, and everybody who has it, as far away from the rest of us as possible.Now, the behavior of Andrew Beckett's employers may seem reasonable to you. It does to me. After all, AIDS is a deadly, incurable disease. But no matter how you come to judge Charles Wheeler and his partners in ethical, moral, and in human terms, the fact of the matter is, when they fired Andrew Beckett because he had AIDS, they broke the law."
"No one would take on his case... until one man was willing to take on the system."
"Tom Hanks - Andrew Beckett"
"Denzel Washington - Joe Miller"
"Jason Robards - Charles Wheeler"
"Antonio Banderas - Miguel Alvarez"
"Mary Steenburgen - Belinda Conine"
"Joanne Woodward - Sarah Beckett"
"Bradley Whitford - Jamey Collins"
"Charles Napier - Judge Garnett"
"Joey Perillo - Filko"
"I may not know much of law Mr. Felder, but I know what's right and what's wrong. And I know what you're asking is wrong."
"Henry Fonda - Abe Lincoln"
"Alice Brady - Abigail Clay"
"Marjorie Weaver - Mary Todd"
"Richard Cromwell - Matt Clay"
"Donald Meek - Prosecutor John Felder"
"Eddie Quillan - Adam Clay"
"Ward Bond - John Palmer Cass"
"Pauline Moore - Ann Rutledge"
"My dad hated lawyers. You might think I became one just to piss him off, but you'd be wrong. Did piss him off so much though that when he heard he fell off a ladder and didn't know who to sue first."
"Sworn in by a fool and vouched for by a scoundrel. I'm a lawyer at last."
"I knew exactly what was going on here. Just like when Daddy was in the bedroom crying and Mommy was sitting in the kitchen, face all bloody, saying that Daddy was sorry."
"What's the difference between a lawyer and a hooker? A hooker'll stop screwing you when you're dead."
"How do you know when a lawyer is lying? His lips are moving."
"There's gotta be a hundred years of law experience sitting at this very table. My staff has flunked the bar exam six times."
"Every lawyer, at least once in every case, feels himself crossing a line that he doesn't really mean to cross... it just happens... And if you cross it enough times it disappears forever. And then you're nothin' but another lawyer joke. Just another shark in the dirty water."
"You know what a Rainmaker is, kid? The bucks are gonna be falling from the sky."
"There's nothing more thrilling than nailing an insurance company."
"Matt Damon - Rudy Baylor"
"Danny DeVito - Deck Shifflet"
"Jon Voight - Leo F. Drummond"
"Claire Danes - Kelly Riker"
"Mary Kay Place - Dot Black"
"Dean Stockwell - Judge Harvey Hale"
"Virginia Madsen - Jackie Lemancyzk"
"Mickey Rourke - J. Lyman "Bruiser" Stone"
"Roy Scheider - Wilfred Keeley"
"Red West - Buddy Black"
"Johnny Whitworth - Donny Ray Black"
"Andrew Shue - Cliff Riker"
"Teresa Wright - "Miss Birdie" Birdsong (final film role)"
"Danny Glover - Judge Tyrone Kipler"
"[to Judge Hoyle] You couldn't hack it as a lawyer. You were a bag man for the boys downtown and you still are, I know about you."
"So Pat says, he says, "They got this new bar... and you go inside and for half a buck you get a beer, a free lunch and they take you in the back room - they get you laid... Mike says, "Now wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute. Do you mean to say there's a new bar and you go inside and for a half a buck they give you a beer, a free lunch and they take you in the back room and they get you laid?" Pat says, "That's right." "Have you ever been in the bar?" And he says, "No, but me sister has.""
"You know, so much of the time we're just lost. We say, "Please, God, tell us what is right; tell us what is true." And there is no justice: the rich win, the poor are powerless. We become tired of hearing people lie. And after a time, we become dead... a little dead. We think of ourselves as victims... and we become victims. We become... we become weak. We doubt ourselves, we doubt our beliefs. We doubt our institutions. And we doubt the law. But today you are the law. You ARE the law. Not some book... not the lawyers... not the, a marble statue... or the trappings of the court. See those are just symbols of our desire to be just. They are... they are, in fact, a prayer: a fervent and a frightened prayer. In my religion, they say, "Act as if ye had faith... and faith will be given to you." IF... if we are to have faith in justice, we need only to believe in ourselves. And ACT with justice. See, I believe there is justice in our hearts."
"[to Laura] I know how you feel. You don't believe me, but I do know. I'm going to tell you something that I learned when I was your age. I'd prepared a case and old man White said to me, "How did you do?" And, uh, I said, "Did my best." And he said, "You're not paid to do your best. You're paid to win." And that's what pays for this office... pays for the pro bono work that we do for the poor... pays for the type of law that you want to practice... pays for my whiskey... pays for your clothes... pays for the leisure we have to sit back and discuss philosophy as we're doing tonight. We're paid to win the case. You finished your marriage. You wanted to come back and practice the law. You wanted to come back to the world. Welcome back."
"[to Frank] This case should never have come to trial. But you know better. You're mister independent. You want to be independent? Be independent now. I have no sympathy for you."
"Maureen Rooney: You know you guys are all the same. You don't care who gets hurt. You're a bunch of whores. You'd do anything for a dollar. You got no loyalty... No nothing... You're a bunch of whores."
"Kevin Doneghy: You guys... you guys are all the same! The doctors at the hospital, you... it's always what I'm going to do for you. And then you screw up, and it's, "Ah, we did the best that we could, I'm dreadfully sorry." And people like us live with your mistakes the rest of our lives."
"Kaitlin Costello: [testifying why she kept a copy of the admittance form] After the operation, when that poor girl she went into a coma, Dr. Towler called me in. He told me that he'd had five difficult deliveries in a row and he was tired... and he never looked at the admittance form. And he told me to change the form. He told me to change the '1' to a '9'... or else... or else he said, he said he'd fire me. He said I'd never work again. Who were these men? Who were these men? I wanted to be a nurse!"
"Paul Newman - Frank Galvin"
"Charlotte Rampling - Laura Fischer"
"Jack Warden - Mickey Morrissey"
"James Mason - Ed Concannon"
"Milo O'Shea - Judge Hoyle"
"Lindsay Crouse - Kaitlin Costello"
"Edward Binns - Bishop Brophy"
"Julie Bovasso - Maureen Rooney"
"Roxanne Hart - Sally Doneghy"
"This is what the jury is going to see. And they are going to see the girl too and you can't tell it from these. But she's tiny. She's the most defenseless looking thing you you ever saw."
"Ladies and gentlemen, Mr. Paulsen has told you that the testimony of Sarah Tobias is nothing. Sarah Tobias was raped, but that is nothing. She was cut and bruised and terrorized but that is nothing. All of it happened in front of a howling crowd and that is nothing. Well, it may be nothing to Mr. Paulsen, but it is not nothing to Sarah Tobias and I don't believe it is nothing to you. Next, Mr. Paulsen tried to convince you that Kenneth Joyce was the only one in that room who knew that Sarah Tobias was being raped - the only one! Now you watched Kenneth Joyce, how did he strike you? Did he seem especially sensitive, especially observant? Did he seem so remarkable that you said to yourselves, 'Of course! This man would notice things other people wouldn't.' Do you believe that Kenneth Joyce saw something in that room that those three men didn't see? In all the time that Sarah was pinned down on that Pinball machine that other people didn't know? Kenneth Joyce confessed to you that he watched a rape and did nothing. He told you that everyone in that bar behaved badly - and he was right. But no matter how immoral it may be, it is not the crime of criminal solicitation to walk away from a rape. It is not the crime of criminal solicitation to silently watch a rape. But it is the crime of criminal solicitation to induce or entreat or encourage or persuade another person to commit a rape. 'Hold her down! Stick it to her! Make her moan!' These three men did worse than nothing. They cheered, and they clapped, and they rooted the others on. They made sure that Sarah Tobias was raped, and raped, and raped. Now you tell me, is that nothing?"
"What the hell are you talking about? You saw me at the hospital, what you think I asked for that? Is that what you think? If that's what you think then you get the fuck out of my house!"
"You don't understand how I feel! I'm standing there with my pants down and my crotch hung out for the world to see and three guys are sticking it to me, a bunch of other guys are yelling and clapping and you're standing there telling me that that's the best you can do. Well, if that's the best you could do, then your best sucks! Now, I don't know what you got for selling me out, but I sure as shit hope it was worth it!"
"Kelly McGillis - A. D. A. Kathryn Murphy"
"Jodie Foster - Sarah Tobias"
"Bernie Coulson - Ken Joyce"
"Leo Rossi - Cliff "Scorpion" Albrect"
"Ann Hearn - Sally Fraser"
"Carmen Argenziano - D. A. Paul Rudolph"
"Steve Antin - Bob Joiner"
"Tom O'Brien - Larry"
"Peter Van Norden - Attorney Paulsen"
"Terry David Mulligan - Lieutenant Duncan"
"Woody Brown - Danny"
"Scott Paulin - Attorney Ben Wainwright"
"Kim Kondrashoff - Kurt"
"This is Alfred Hitchcock speaking. In the past, I have given you many kinds of suspense pictures, but this time I would like you to see a different one. The difference lies in the fact that this is a true story, every word of it. And yet, it contains elements that are stranger than all the fiction that has gone into many of the thrillers that I've made before."
"An innocent man has nothing to fear, remember that."
"Somewhere...somewhere there must be the right man!"
"The police were convinced... The witnesses were positive ...Yet he was... THE WRONG MAN"
"Suspense Mounts Step By Step"
"An innocent man has nothing to fear!"
"Henry Fonda — Christopher Emmanuel "Manny" Balestrero"
"Vera Miles — Rose Balestrero"
"Anthony Quayle — Frank O'Connor"
"Harold J. Stone — Lt. Bowers"
"Charles Cooper — Det. Matthews"
"John Hildebrand — Tomasini"
"Esther Minciotti — Mama Balestrero"
"Doreen Lang — Ann James"
"Laurinda Barrett — Constance Willis"
"Norma Connolly — Betty Todd"
"Nehemiah Persoff — Gene Conforti"
"Lola D'Annunzio — Olga Conforti"
"Werner Klemperer — Dr. Bannay"
"Kippy Campbell — Robert Balestrero"
"Robert Essen — Gregory Balestrero"
"Richard Robbins — Daniel, the guilty man"
"[reading Emily's letter] People say that God is dead, but how can they think that if I show them the Devil?"
"Once you've looked into the darkness, I think you carry it with you for the rest of your life."
"Demons exist whether you believe in them or not."
"There are forces surrounding this trial... dark, powerful forces."
"[In German to her father] Dolls and kisses and crosses and wishes... You think that can save your little girl?"
"[to courtroom] Good morning chat, lock in. I’m Ethan Thomas, assistant DA, certified yapper for The People™. Let me cook. The evidence is about to go absolutely crazy. The victim had mega-serious debuff stats — HP low, mental bar blinking red — could not self-heal. Needed actual medical DLC. Instead? Her entire care bar got assigned to this dude: Father Richard Moore. Yes, *that* guy. Main character of Bad Decisions Simulator."
"What happened to Emily?"
"She is possessed"
"Laura Linney — Erin Christine Bruner"
"Tom Wilkinson — Father Richard Moore"
"Campbell Scott — Ethan Thomas"
"Jennifer Carpenter — Emily Rose"
"Colm Feore — Karl Gunderson"
"Joshua Close — Jason"
"Kenneth Welsh — Dr. Mueller"
"Duncan Fraser — Dr. Cartwright"
"J. R. Bourne — Ray"
"Mary Beth Hurt — Judge Brewster"
"Henry Czerny — Dr. Briggs"
"Shohreh Aghdashloo — Dr. Sadira Adani"
"Dear God, I accept my death gladly but do not let me suffer too long. Will I be with You tonight in Paradise?"
"You claim that I am sent by the Devil. It's not true. To make me suffer, the Devil has sent you... and you... and you... and you."
"An Immortal Screen Classic that will live Forever!"
"Renée Jeanne Falconetti — Jeanne d'Arc"
"Eugène Silvain — Pierre Cauchon"
"André Berley — Jean d'Estivet"
"Maurice Schutz — Nicolas Loyseleur"
"The law. Nothing is right or wrong! It's either the law or it's not the law. Well, we got a problem here, because it's not working anymore. It turns out that right and wrong count."
"There's a lot of nobility in this room. Must be the paneling."
"Someone has taken justice and hidden it in the law."
"Newscaster: Dr. Harold Lewin, who was scheduled to go on trial next month for the courtroom shooting of a policeman, has apparently committed suicide, by taking a massive overdose of sleeping pills. Dr. Lewin is the father of 8-year-old Daniel Lewin. Daniel Lewin was one of nine children who have been brutally murdered in what police suspect may be a child pornography ring. Lawrence Monk and Arthur Cooms, who were accused of murdering Dr. Lewin's son, were released from custody, and all charges against them were dropped when Judge Steven Hardin ruled that a crucial piece of evidence linking them to the murdered child could not be used in the trial. When the ruling was announced by Judge Hardin in court, Dr. Lewin allegedly tried to shoot Monk and Cooms. In the ensuing struggle, a police officer was wounded. Dr. Lewin left a note asking his wife Carol to please forgive him."
"They meet. They judge. They execute... All in the name of the law."
"Someone has hidden justice within the law. Now justice is breaking out."
"...Where justice is served with a vengeance."
"The only one willing to stop them is one of their own. And when you know who they really are, you'll wish you didn't."
"They are the most powerful members of our community. They have a shattering secret. A secret that will affect us all. Only one man is willing to stop them. On August 5, you'll know who they really are."
"Michael Douglas - Superior Court Judge Steven R. Hardin"
"Hal Holbrook - Judge Benjamin Caulfield"
"Yaphet Kotto - Det. Harry Lowes"
"Sharon Gless - Emily Hardin"
"James B. Sikking - Dr. Harold Lewin"
"Joe Regalbuto - Arthur Cooms"
"Don Calfa - Lawrence Monk"
"David Faustino - Tony Hardin"
"Larry Hankin - Det. Kenneth Wiggan"
"Dick Anthony Williams - Det. Paul Mackey"
"DeWayne Jessie - Stanley Flowers"
"David Proval - Officer Nelson"
"Michael Ensign - Judge Kirkland"
"Diana Douglas - Adrian Caulfield"
"Frances Bergen - Mrs. Cummins"
"Robert Costanzo - Sgt. Spota"
"That's right, we're not goin' to jail because of what we did, we're goin' to jail because of who we are!"
"He does this, it's a pattern. Read his portion of the Port Huron Statement. He implies possessive pronouns and uses vague noun modifiers."
"If blood is going to flow, let it flow all over this city!"
"We've dealt with jury tampering, wiretapping, a defendant that was literally gagged, and a judge who's been handing down rulings from the bench that would be considered wrong in Honduras, so I'm a little less interested in the law than I was when this trial began."
"This is the Academy Awards of protests and as far as I'm concerned it's an honor just to be nominated."
"Eddie Redmayne - Tom Hayden"
"Sacha Baron Cohen - Abbie Hoffman"
"Alex Sharp - Rennie Davis"
"Jeremy Strong - Jerry Rubin"
"John Carroll Lynch - David Dellinger"
"Noah Robbins - Lee Weiner"
"Daniel Flaherty - John Froines"
"Yahya Abdul-Mateen II - Bobby Seale"
"Mark Rylance - William Kunstler"
"Joseph Gordon-Levitt - Richard Schultz"
"Ben Shenkman - Leonard Weinglass"
"J. C. MacKenzie - Tom Foran"
"Frank Langella - Judge Julius Hoffman"
"Kelvin Harrison Jr. - Fred Hampton"
"Michael Keaton - Ramsey Clark"
"John Doman - John N. Mitchell"
"Wayne Duvall - Paul DeLuca"
"Caitlin FitzGerald - Daphne O'Connor"
"Max Adler - Officer Stan Wojohowski"
"C. J. Wilson - Sergeant Scott Scibelli"
"Damian Young - Howard Ackerman"
"Alice Kremelberg - Bernardine"
"Alan Metoskie - Allen Ginsberg"
"I checked the list of people I trust and your name ain't on it."
"Detective Kurlen: [to Haller in crowded elevator] How does someone like you sleep at night with all the scum you represent?"
"Matthew McConaughey - Mickey Haller"
"Marisa Tomei - Maggie McPherson"
"Ryan Phillippe - Louis Roulet"
"William H. Macy - Frank Levin"
"Josh Lucas - Ted Minton"
"John Leguizamo - Val Valenzuela"
"Michael Peña - Jesus Martinez"
"Bob Gunton - Cecil Dobbs"
"Frances Fisher - Mary Windsor"
"Bryan Cranston - Detective Lankford"
"Trace Adkins - Eddie Vogel"
"Laurence Mason - Earl Briggs"
"Margarita Levieva - Reggie Campo"
"Pell James - Lorna"
"Shea Whigham - Corliss"
"Katherine Moennig - Gloria"
"Michael Paré - Detective Kurlen"
"Michaela Conlin - Detective Sobel"
"Mackenzie Aladjem - Hayley Haller"
"Eric Etebari - Charles Talbot"
"I came out of law school with grand ideas in my mind about how to change the world. But Mr. McMillian made me realize we can't change the world with only ideas in our minds. We need conviction in our hearts. this man taught me how to stay hopeful, because I now know that hopelessness is the enemy of justice. Hope allows us to push for word, even when the truth is distorted by the people in power. It allows us to stand when they tell us to sit down, and to speak when they say be quiet."
"[in the US Senate hearing about the death penalty] Through this work, I've learned that each of us is more than the worst thing that we've ever done; that the opposite of poverty isn't wealth, the opposite of poverty is justice; that the character of our nation isn't reflected on how we treat the rich and the privileged, but how we treat the poor, the disfavored, and condemned."
"Michael B. Jordan as Bryan Stevenson"
"Jamie Foxx as Walter McMillian"
"Brie Larson as Eva Ansley"
"Rob Morgan as Herbert Richardson"
"Tim Blake Nelson as Ralph Myers"
"Rafe Spall as Tommy Chapman"
"O'Shea Jackson Jr. as Anthony Ray Hinton"
"[first lines] Lady, you sit in your nice house, clean floors, your bottled water, your flowers on Valentine's Day, and you think you're tough? Wear my shoes. Tell me tough. Work a day in the pit, tell me tough."
"You want a show?! Huh?! Is that what you want?! You can all go to Hell!"
"My name is Hank Aimes and I've been a miner all my life. And I've never been ashamed of it until now. You know when we take our wives and daughters to the company barbecue, I don't hear any of them calling them those names like bitches and whores and worse. I don't see anyone grab them by their privates or drawing pictures of them on the bathroom walls, it's unspeakable. Unspeakable! So what's changed? She's still my daughter! It's a heck of a thing, to watch one of your own get treated that way. You're all supposed to be my friends, my brothers. Well, right now I don't have a friend in this room. In fact the only one I'm not ashamed of is my daughter."
"Charlize Theron as Josephine "Josey" Aimes"
"Frances McDormand as Glory Dodge"
"Sean Bean as Kyle Dodge"
"Richard Jenkins as Henry "Hank" Aimes"
"Jeremy Renner as Robert "Bobby" Sharp"
"Michelle Monaghan as Sherry"
"Thomas Curtis as Samuel "Sammy" Aimes"
"Woody Harrelson as Bill White"
"Sissy Spacek as Alice Aimes"
"Tom Bower as Gray Suchett"
"Linda Emond as Leslie Conlin"
"Rusty Schwimmer as Big Betty"
"Jillian Armenante as Peg"
"Xander Berkeley as Arlen Pavich"
"Chris Mulkey as Earl Slangley"
"Corey Stoll as Ricky Sennett"
"Brad William Henke as Mr. Lattavansky"
"John Aylward as Judge Halsted"
"Marcus Chait as Wayne"
"As a lawyer, I've had to learn that people aren't just good or just bad. People are many things."
"The prosecution would like to separate the motive from the act. Well, that's like trying to take the core from an apple without breaking the skin."
"I'm just a humble country lawyer trying to do the best I can against this brilliant prosecutor from the big city of Lansing."
"[after cross-examining a convicted felon] Your Honor, I don't think I can dignify this - -creature - - with any more questions."
"Look, Laura, believe me, I don't usually complain of an attractive jiggle, but just you save that jiggle for your husband to look at, if and when I get him out of jail."
"Twelve people go off into a room: twelve different minds, twelve different hearts, from twelve different walks of life; twelve sets of eyes, ears, shapes, and sizes. And these twelve people are asked to judge another human being as different from them as they are from each other. And in their judgment, they must become of one mind - unanimous. It's one of the miracles of Man's disorganized soul that they can do it, and in most instances, do it right well. God bless juries."
"The lieutenant goes to Quill's place and plugs Mr. Quill about five times, which causes Mr. Quill to promptly die of lead poisoning."
"You know I used to think the world looked better through a glass of whiskey. It doesn't. I think I'll keep it this way. Looks nice."
"One judge is quite like another. The only differences may be in the state of their digestions or their proclivities for sleeping on the bench. For myself, I can digest pig iron. And while I might appear to doze occasionally, you will find that I am easily awakened, particularly if shaken gently by a good lawyer with a nice point of law."
"For the benefit of the jury, but more especially for the spectators, The garment mentioned in the testimony was, to be exact, Mrs. Manion's panties. [spectators roar with laughter] I wanted to get your snickering over and done with. This pair of panties will be mentioned again over the course of this trial, and when it is, there will not be one laugh, one snicker, one giggle or even one smirk in my courtroom. There is nothing comic about a pair of panties that resulted in the violent death of one man and the possible incarceration of another."
"Now, Mr. Dancer, get off the panties. You've done enough damage."
"James Stewart - Paul Biegler"
"Lee Remick - Laura Manion"
"Ben Gazzara - Lt. Frederick Manion"
"Arthur O'Connell - Parnell Emmett McCarthy"
"Eve Arden - Maida Rutledge"
"Kathryn Grant - Mary Pilant"
"George C. Scott - Claude Dancer"
"Orson Bean - Dr. Matthew Smith"
"Russ Brown - George Lemon"
"Murray Hamilton - Alphonse Paquette"
"Brooks West - Mitch Lodwick"
"Ken Lynch - Sgt. James Durgo"
"John Qualen - Deputy Sheriff Sulo"
"Howard McNear - Dr. Dompierre"
"Alexander Campbell - Dr. Gregory Harcourt"
"Ned Wever - Dr. Raschid"
"Jimmy Conlin - Clarence Madigan"
"Royal Beal - Sheriff Battisfore"
"Joseph Kearns - Mr. Burke, crime scene photographer"
"Don Ross - Duke Miller"
"Lloyd Le Vasseur - Court clerk"
"James Waters - Army sergeant"
"Joseph N. Welch - Judge Weaver"