Court quotes

“The cops are like butchers, always got their thumbs on the scales, but good luck arguing that in court. Let me get down to brass tacks: I'm gonna get you a second phone call. You're gonna call your mommy or your daddy or your parish priest or your Boy Scout leader and they're gonna deliver me a check for $4,650. I'm gonna write that down on the...” (continue)(continue reading)

Bob Odenkirk - Saul Goodman

“A court ought not be affected by the weather of the day, but will be by the climate of the era.”
Geordie Johnson - Professor Freund

“- George Washington Duke: C’mon, punk. Touch me and I'll sue.
[Rocky uppercuts Duke]
- Rocky Balboa: Sue me for what?”
Richard Gant - George Washington Duke
Sylvester Stallone - Rocky Balboa

“- James Donovan: You don't seem alarmed.
- Rudolf Abel: Would it help?”

Tom Hanks - James B. Donovan
Mark Rylance - Rudolf Abel

“- Judge: Ms. Jackson please control your client or I will hold you both in contempt of court.
- Ted: Oh piss off! All right? I'm standing up for me, and I 'm standing up for the homos! We deserve respect!
- Samantha Jackson: Ted shut up!”
Ron Canada - Judge
Seth MacFarlane - Ted
Amanda Seyfried - Samantha

Two years ago I proclaimed these people emancipated: "then, hence forward and forever free". But let's say the courts decide I had no authority to do it. They might well decide that.
Daniel Day-Lewis - Abraham Lincoln

“- William: Was it not for the pure and faithful dispensation of the Gospels, and the Kingdom of God?
- Old Slater: No More! We are your judges, and not you ours!
- William: I cannot be judged by false Christians, for I have done nothing, save preach Christ's true Gospel.”

Ralph Ineson - William
Ron G. Young - Old Slater

“I just killed two people, and you were about to let me walk right out that door! How misguided are you? You all hang out in the same little club and every day you let madmen and murderers back on the street. You're too busy treating the law like it's a fucking assembly line!”

Gerard Butler - Clyde Shelton

“- Ben Bradlee Jr.: You wanna sue the Church?
- Marty Baron: Technically we wouldn't sue the Church, we'd file a motion to lift the seal on the documents.
- Ben Bradlee Jr.: The Church will read that as us suing them. So will everybody else.
- Marty Baron: Good to know.”
John Slattery - Ben Bradley, Jr.
Liev Schreiber - Marty Baron

“You go in that courtroom and forget what's legal and do what's right.”
Charles Bronson - Leo Kessler

“This is a three billion dollar class action lawsuit. In the morning, I have to call my board. I have to tell them that the architect of our defense was arrested for running naked in the street. What sickness is he talking about?”
Tilda Swinton - Karen Crowder

“There's only three reasons why you can't make your court date. One, you're in a hospital. Two, you're in jail. Three, your ass is dead.”
Tommy "Tiny" Lister - Winston

“I won't... I cannot negotiate any more. You take it or leave it. But if you leave it, we go to court. And if we go to court, it will get ugly. And we're not ugly people Harge.”

Cate Blanchett - Carol Aird

“You can curtsy or not; that's your choice. There's nothing I can do about it... except have you beheaded, but that seems a bit extreme.”
Hugh Dancy - Char

“The street is the only thing that matters. Court is for uptown people with suits, money, lawyers with three names. If you got cash you can buy court justice. But on the street, justice has no price. She's blind where the judge sits but she's not blind out here. Out here the bitch got eyes.”
Frank Medrano - Fat Mancho

“- Samantha Jackson: Ted, do you love your wife?
- Shep Wild: Objection. She's not his wife. The marriage was annulled.
- Samantha Jackson: I'll rephrase. Do you love Tami-Lynn?
- Ted: I love my wife. Okay, my wife. More than anything in the world. We're married, I don't care what anybody says.”
Amanda Seyfried - Samantha
John Slattery - Shep Wild
Seth MacFarlane - Ted

“- Bryan Mills: All you have to know is I'm innocent. Give me two days, I can prove it. I can find out who did it.
- Franck Dotzler: You may very well be innocent, Mr. Mills. But that's the court's job to decide, it's not mine. My job is to bring you in and let the law take its course, that's it.”
Liam Neeson - Bryan Mills
Forest Whitaker - Franck Dotzler

“- John Quincy Adams: Now, you understand you're going to the Supreme Court. Do you know why?
- Cinque: It is the place where they finally kill us.”
Philip Anthony Hopkins - John Quincy Adams
Djimon Hounsou - Cinque

“- Judge Thomas Danforth: If you do not give me his name, I will have you arrested for contempt of court.
- Giles Corey: This is a hearing. You cannot arrest me for contempt of a hearing.”
Paul Scofield - Judge Thomas Danforth
Peter Vaughan - Giles Corey

“I'm sorry, your honor, but what would you call it, legally, when the officer who arrested you was having sexual intercourse with your wife? You know, I think it's objectionable.”
Philip Anthony Hopkins - Ted Crawford

“My court dates were so backed up that week, I hardly had any time left for school. Sometimes you had to stand around all morning when you got there. And you always run into a familiar face.”
Shar-Ron Corley - Jason Petty

“- Judge Chamberlain Haller: When you come into my court looking like you do, you not only insult me, but you insult the integrity of this court!
- Vinny Gambini: I apologise, sir, but, uh... this is how I dress.
- Judge Chamberlain Haller: Fine. I'll let you off this one time. The next time you appear in my court, you will look lawyerly. And I...” (continue)(continue reading)
Fred Gwynne - Judge Chamberlain Haller
Joe Pesci - Vinny Gambini

“- Doyle's Sponsor: What happened in court today?
- Doyle Gipson: I'm in a bar. What does that tell you?
- Doyle's Sponsor: It tells me that you're really angry. And that anger has gotten you into the one place in the world you shouldn't be.”
William Hurt - Doyle's Sponsor
Samuel L. Jackson - Doyle Gipson

“If you missed fifth grade graduation because you had jury duty, you might be a redneck.”
Jeff Foxworthy - Jeff Foxworthy

“The idea of criminal court is crime and punishment. The idea of civil court and of personal injury law by nature, although no one likes to say it out loud, least of all the personal injury lawyer himself is money. Money for suffering and money for death as if that could somehow relieve suffering, as if somehow it can bring dead children back to...” (continue)(continue reading)
Robert Duvall - Jerome Facher