“Color of Night” quotes

“Tend to view our lives as if we're looking through a keyhole. It's a very limited view of the truth. So we have to fill in the blanks. We invent things. You invent enemies to test your strength against. You invent gods to protect you from these enemies. Who is the enemy? One minute you have friends. The next moment, they've slipped away.”
Bruce Willis - Bill Capa

“Six weeks ago, I spoke harshly to a patient and she committed suicide. Right in front of me. Perhaps she would have done this anyway. That's what my colleagues say. But I don't know.”
Bruce Willis - Bill Capa

“- Dr. Bill Capa: Do I need a lawyer?
- Hector Martinez: You're in L.A. Everybody needs a lawyer.”
Bruce Willis - Bill Capa
Rubén Blades - Martinez

“You know what kind of power people hand over to shrinks. Well, maybe sometimes they hand over more than they want too!”
Kevin J. O'Connor - Casey

“To deny red is to deny emotion.”
Jeff Corey - Ashland

“Always guess the cliche, and you won't be disappointed.”
Bruce Willis - Bill Capa

“For one reason or another I'm more screwed up than you people are.”

Bruce Willis - Bill Capa

“- Dr. Bill Capa: If I had known it was your birthday, I'd have come by tomorrow.
- Hector Martinez: Me too.”
Bruce Willis - Bill Capa
Rubén Blades - Martinez

“Bill, salmon swim upstream to mate and die. And so do men.”
Jeff Corey - Ashland

“- Dr. Bill Capa: I'm still a romantic. I just don't have anybody to be romantic with. They all want to fuck me or marry me. None of 'em want to love me.
- Ashland: Maybe you don't want to be loved.”
Bruce Willis - Bill Capa
Jeff Corey - Ashland

“- Dr. Bill Capa: What do you give a suicidal patient who's got everything?
- Dr. Bob Moore: A parachute. I heard it already.”
Bruce Willis - Bill Capa
Scott Bakula - Bob Moore

“I know that I've got something broken. And I know that it's gonna take some time to get it fixed.”
Bruce Willis - Bill Capa

“If a friend of mine got killed and the only thing between the killer and me was Miranda you know what I would do? Huh? I'd fuck Miranda up the ass. But don't tell anybody, because it's a matter of confidentiality.”
Rubén Blades - Martinez

“- Clark: A thief would not stick around to stab someone thirty times!
- Buck: Since when did you become such an expert on robbery?
- Sondra Dorio: It's not the robbery he's an expert on. It's the rage!”
Brad Dourif - Clark
Lance Henriksen - Buck
Lesley Ann Warren - Sondra

“- Clark: I'm an obsessive-compulsive disorder.
- Casey Heinz: So what's the problem?”
Brad Dourif - Clark
Kevin J. O'Connor - Casey

“- Dr. Bob Moore: Why don't we just drop our pants and see who's got the bigger dick? Then we can go back and have a nice, civilized breakfast.
- Dr. Bill Capa: Wouldn't be civilized.
- Dr. Bob Moore: Why?
- Dr. Bill Capa: You'd be sulking!”
Scott Bakula - Bob Moore
Bruce Willis - Bill Capa

“- Sondra Dorio: I'm sorry. Class was really, really, really late.
- Casey Heinz: What class is that? Advanced cunnilingus for the single woman or C.P.R. for pleasure and gain?”
Lesley Ann Warren - Sondra
Kevin J. O'Connor - Casey

“We keep making the same neurotic choices over and over every time we choose a new mate.”
Bruce Willis - Bill Capa

“Listen up, you fucking daffodils! You gonna leave me hanging here all night, huh? Get me down, you goddamn cuckoos! Get me some fucking Band-Aids! Come on, you fucking daffodils! Get me out of here!”
Rubén Blades - Martinez

If you don't tell 'em, I'll have to tell 'em. Am I the person to break the news to these people? "Listen up you fuckin' daffodils. Your shrink is dead. Which means that all the time, effort and love you put in this relationship is wasted. You're gonna remain as fucked up as you are, or get worse".
Rubén Blades - Martinez