Court quotes

“There will be no cross-examination in this court. You may speak, if you like. But let me warn you, Mr. Webster - if you fail to convince us, then you, too, are doomed.”

H.B. Warner - Justice John Hathorne

“- Jake: I've heard about the charge of the body count. What the hell happened Frank?
- Frank Castle: Frank is dead! Alright?
- Jake: I see. So, you decided that everybody else had to be dead too, is that it?
- Frank Castle: No. If you're guilty, you're dead.
- Jake: Courts decide whose guilty. Not cops. We hereby swear to uphold the law, remember?”
Louis Gossett Jr. - Jake Berkowitz
Dolph Lundgren - Frank Castle, The Punisher

“The court hopes the defendant will never again be free; I've come as close to that as possible.”
Graham McPherson - Judge Foote

“- Consul Phil Putnam: Please try to understand. There are so many cases. They're all so important, and this isn't the only one we're working on.
- Ed Horman: It's the only one I care about.”
David Clennon - Consul Phil Putnam
Jack Lemmon - Ed Horman

“This court finds that the seizure of His Majesty's Armed Vessel Bounty was an act of mutiny by Fletcher Christian and others of her crew, and that her captain Lieutenant William Bligh is, in the opinion of this court, to be exonerated of all blame on this occasion.”
Laurence Olivier - Admiral Hood

“- Shep Ramsey: You're gonna pound my face. Break every bone in my body. Then you're gonna drag me across a gravel road and feed my remains to a warthog. Is that about right?
- Deak: What are you nuts? This is the '90s. We're gonna sue you.”
Hulk Hogan - Shep Ramsey
Dennis Burkley - Deak

“- Alexander Haig: The deadline is today.
- Richard M. Nixon: Can we get around this, Al?
- Alexander Haig: It's the Supreme Court, sir. You don't get around it.”
Powers Boothe - Alexander Haig
Philip Anthony Hopkins - Richard M. Nixon

“- Jerome Facher: What's your take?
- Jan Schlichtmann: They'll see the truth.
- Jerome Facher: The truth? I thought we were talking about a court of law. Come on, you've been around long enough to know that a courtroom isn't a place to look for the truth.”

Robert Duvall - Jerome Facher
John Travolta - Jan Schlichtmann

“- Judge Garrett: In this courtroom, Mr.Miller, justice is blind to matters of race, creed, color, religion, and sexual orientation.
- Joe Miller: With all due respect, your honor, we don't live in this courtroom, do we?”
Charles Napier - Judge Garnett
Denzel Washington - Joe Miller

“- Clerk: Do you swear on the Constitution of the United States to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth, so help you God?
- Witness: Ain't no thing.”
Rick Overton - Clerk
Al White - Witness

“The first time I walked into a courtroom I looked around. I asked my father, who are the whores - and who are the spectators?”
John Cassavetes - Maj. Joe De Lucca

“If you want justice, go to a whorehouse. If you wanna get fucked, go to court.”
Richard Tiffany Gere - Martin Vail

“Gentlemen, need I remind you you're in a court of law?”

Jack Warden - Judge Francis Rayford

“- Oliver Rose: And you better get yourself a damn good lawyer!
- Barbara Rose: Best your money can buy!”
Michael Douglas - Oliver Rose
Kathleen Turner - Barbara Rose

“- Prosecuting Attorney: Dr. Stone, would you give the court your impression of Mr. Striker?
- Dr. Stone: I'm sorry, I don't do impressions, my training is in psychiatry.”
John Larch - Prosecuting Attorney
John Vernon - Dr. Stone

“If you're dealing with a man who has crushed, shot, stabbed, and detonated five members of his own IMF team, how devastated do you think you're gonna make him by hauling Mom and Uncle Donald down to the county courthouse?”

Tom Cruise - Ethan Hunt

“You're the jury. It's your job to decide who's telling the truth. Truth. That's what 'verdict' means. It's a word comes down from Old England and all our little old ancestors.”
Lane Smith - Jim Trotter III

“They brought Xi into a place where there were several people. He smiled at them in greeting. But nobody smiled back.”

Paddy O'Byrne - Narrator

“- Arthur Kirkland: Why do we have to use microphones? Why can't we just talk to each other? We're close enough.
- Assistant D.A. Keene: This is a hearing, Mr. Kirkland.”
Al Pacino - Arthur Kirkland
Charles Siebert - Assistant D.A. Keene