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 Steven Hill QuotationMovie Title: The Firm (1993) as Denton Voyles: Mitch McDeere : Are you saying my life is in danger? Denton Voyles : I am saying that your life as you know it is over. Movie Title: Eyewitness (1981) as Lt. Jacobs: Lt. Jacobs : When he was a kid, Aldo must have wanted to be a suspect when he grew up. Movie Title: The Boost (1988) as Max: Max : [Max has discovered that Lenny put a check in Max's safety-deposit box, after "borrowing" $20,000 from the Century West Maintenance account, so that Lenny could treat Linda to a night in Las Vegas] A worthless goddamn CHECK? Lenny : What are you getting hysterical about? It was just a LOAN. Max : In all my life, I never treated ANYONE like I treated you! You were POOR; I made you RICH. You were DROWNING; I gave you a YACHT! And then you STOLE from me. After I treated you like a son. TWENTY THOUSAND DOLLARS! Lenny : You want another check? I'll write you another check right now. Max : A check is no damn good. You want to be a liar as well as a thief? Lenny : Then tell me what to do. Just tell me, Max. Max : [hugs Lenny, then speaks softly] You gotta go. I can't have you around here anymore. Max : That's the problem with the younger generation: No sentiment. Max : [on investment banking] Out here, you gotta start scoring baskets right off the bench... or you're out of the game. Max : I live where the money is. You don't think this NYC crowd would have anything to do with me unless I could move millions of bucks around, do you...? Does your wife work? Lenny : Yeah, she has a great job. Max : Lucky for you. Lenny : I do all right. Everything I do is just a lot chancier, that's all. Max : You just probably haven't found the right products yet, the right territory. Max : [at Morton's Restaurant] ... Look around you. A lot of tables, right? Wrong. Five tables, including mine. All the rest of the people come here to eat. [He proceeds to indicate four other L.A.-based financial wizards and power-brokers] Max : The five of us don't come here to eat. Lenny : So what are you saying, I shouldn't order any food? Max : Oh, no. Eat, eat. Just don't LOOK hungry. Movie Title: Law & Order (1990) as Adam Schiff: Ben Stone : Better to light a match than curse the darkness. Adam Schiff : Be careful you don't light a fuse. Adam Schiff : Terrific. Now to win a larceny trial all we have to do is prove how the universe ends. Adam Schiff : What happened to "Give me your huddled masses"? What the hell has happened to this city? Adam Schiff : You got around double jeopardy. You climbed Everest in your shorts. On a cold day. Adam Schiff : Started with a murder, ends with an execution. You got what you wanted. Take the rest of the week off. Jack McCoy : It's Friday, Adam. Adam Schiff : So it is. See you on Monday. Adam Schiff : Quick. Lock the door. Someone will walk in with a case we can win. Adam Schiff : For four murders, he gets five years? Jack McCoy : When I made the deal, I had no idea... Adam Schiff : You had no idea because your blood was rushing downstream to somewhere south of the border. Adam Schiff : Clarence Darrow had Leopold and Leob, and who do we have? Jack McCoy : Beavis and Butthead. Adam Schiff : Young people get impatient with old people. Especially cantankerous ones. Ben Stone : Oh yeah? Speaking from personal experience? Adam Schiff : I'm a sweetheart. And I'm middle age. Adam Schiff : You and the girl's lawyer want to pressure her into pleading to a lesser charge that she might *not* be guilty of so she won't be convicted of a more serious charge that she *might* be guilty of? Does that make sense? Ben Stone : With our system and imperfect knowledge? Yes. Adam Schiff : You do what you have to do, you're still welcome to my scotch. [after convicting a physics professor of 2nd degree murder] Ben Stone : But on the other hand he killed a woman, so I had to play it by the book. Adam Schiff : You feel bad about that? Ben Stone : Twenty-five years - he's not your typical killer. Adam Schiff : He is - he killed somebody. Adam Schiff : ...after twenty years in this office, you'd think you'd have a sense of reality. Ben Stone : Reality? The reality is that no one is willing to draw a line in the sand. Nobody is willing to say that the law is the law. And if you break it, you will be prosecuted: win, lose or draw. Adam Schiff : A motive pulled straight from the tabloids. And what about means and opportunity? Are you getting that from comic books? EADA Ben Stone : My father wanted me to be a doctor. I took a year of medical school just to please him. Adam Schiff : What happened? EADA Ben Stone : I grew up. [an activist is upset that Adam is prosecuting an AIDS victim] Larry Adler : If you don't back off on this, Adam, I will bury you! Adam Schiff : Start digging. |
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