Tied for 5th most-quoted character in American Crime Story: in 6 of its 38 quotes
Most scenes with: Robert Shapiro (3), F. Lee Bailey (2)
Lines by Robert Kardashian 1
Robert Kardashian
Juice! [Opens the door to his daughter’s bedroom to find O.J. inside] O.J. No, please. This-this is where my daughter sleeps. Come on, O.J., please. Do not kill yourself in Kimmy’s bedroom. Give me the gun. Gi-give me the gun. Come on, come on. We can beat this thing together, just… W-we all love you. We all love you. Your kids love you. God… God loves you. Juice… Okay, okay. Just… You-you don’t want your kids to grow up with-with no parents. You want your kids to lose both parents!?
Scenes with Robert Kardashian 5
[watching TV coverage of OJ fleeing from custody] I don't like the subtext of this one bit. There's an unspoken villain here.
Robert Kardashian
Who, A.C.?
Hm? No. Me! Everyone's blaming me for everything! I have a very clean reputation. What we need is our own press conference.
ADAlan Dershowitz
So, then, the first week culminates with Simpson deciding to make a run for it, while under your supervision…
ADAlan Dershowitz
… Leaving behind a letter that sounds like an admission of guilt, that you guys, for some mistifying reason, read aloud on television…
Robert Kardashian
Bob thought it was a good idea.
No, no, no, wait. Why did you say that? You don’t know what it was like that day. You weren’t there.
’Alan Dershowitz: Of course. And I’m here to help, not to judge.
Oh, you are here to judge. What was that? What was all that?
ADAlan Dershowitz
Bob, you have to move fast. Your client, his goodwill, all of his popularity and accomplishments, it’s a depreciating asset.
ADAlan Dershowitz
Right now, he’s sort of like this handsome, gifted Greek God laid low. It’s a tragedy. But he’s still a Greek God. The longer he sits in that cell, the more the public see him in a jumpsuit and cuffs, the more mortal he becomes. That’s the clock we’re fighting.
So let’s hit the ground running. Okay, first question. Who thinks O.J. did it? [Everybody freezes and looks at him in shocked disbelief.] Me neither.
[Awkward silence]
Uh, thank you, Bob. Why don’t we talk big picture strategy? I’d say our priority at this juncture is the jury.
ADAlan Dershowitz
Yes. We know we have a downtown jury, which means a heavy concentration of African Americans.
Indeed. Black men obviously are our allies. Mr. Simpson, a hero in the community. And I’m confident that people will assume he couldn’t have committed such a ghastly crime. But black women, on the other hand, might be a problem. They don’t like their men marrying white girls.
Robert Kardashian
Is that true?
Why’re you looking at me?
Robert Kardashian
[embarrassed] Well, I…
[Shawn laughs at his discomfort]
But I believe the generalization is accurate. Black women resent successful black men marrying outside the community. We need to limit that group.
That analysis is smart. The prosecution thinks they have the upper hand, but they don’t. Because we have you. And you know how these people think.
[Johnnie gives him another disbelieving look. Lee and Dershowitz visibly cringe with embarrassment, and Barry Scheck buries his face in his hands. Cochran’s team merely looks amused]
“These people?” Bob, let me give you a helpful piece of advice. On this case, you need to choose your vernacular very, very carefully.
[raising his palms] Mea culpa.
[After searching through the bag that O.J. gave him, Robert discovers nothing incriminating inside]
CCA.C. Cowlings
[laughing] Ooh, I knew it. I knew it! I knew there was nothing funky in that bag, Bobby. He didn’t do it! You see that, right? There’s even more proof he didn’t do it.
Robert Kardashian
Who do you think did do it? You know, my kids… at school, the other kids… the-they tease Bobby. Tell him his dad’s…
CCA.C. Cowlings
Hey. It’s a tough time right now. I… I know it’s hard to be strong, but, Bobby you got to stick in there!
Robert Kardashian
No. You-you don’t understand. I’m… I’m really struggling. I’m really struggling here, A.C. Even when it seems everybody else has stopped working to figure out who did it, I… I keep going over everything again and again. Everything I know about Nicole, everything I can learn about Ron Goldman. I mean, there’s never been more information, more-more media coverage, more detectives, more – even the kooks – all about one thing, one crime, ever. Ever! And there’s… just… nothing. No other suspect? No other answer? There’s nothing else.
CCA.C. Cowlings
Nothing else? Nothing else but what?
[there is a long silence]
Robert Kardashian
I didn’t mean it like that.
KJKris Jenner
[leading Robert Kardashian into her kitchen] They’ll be ready in a minute.
Robert Kardashian
[stares at his kids playing out in the garden, he turns and looks at his ex-wife] Hey Kris, can we… Can I just have a second?
Robert Kardashian
I don’t know. I thought we could talk.
KJKris Jenner
[scoffs] What do we have to talk about?
Robert Kardashian
I think we might get him off.
KJKris Jenner
[scoffs again] Congrats.
[Unable to stop himself any longer, Robert sits on a countertop and breaks down crying]
Robert Kardashian
He was my friend for twenty years. I can barely look at him anymore.
KJKris Jenner
[turns to face him, now crying herself. She goes to him] Robert, just… leave. Just quit the case.
Robert Kardashian
You don’t think… You don’t think I’ve thought of that? I can’t. I-I mean, it would just become this-this huge… thing. I mean how would it look? It would convict him. I would convict him. And it would make everything else worse for us and for you, for them. I mean, it’s hard enough with half the country hating you. No, I just… I just have to sit there ‘til it’s over. And then he’s out of our lives forever. Okay? Okay? [he starts crying again, and Kris hugs him] I’m so sorry. I’m so sorry, Kris.
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