Herrmann quotes from Chicago Fire

[to Ernie, jokingly] Don't let Mills here make you do all the work. He's what we call a candidate. You know how there's all those rungs on the ladder? He's the bottom one.

I'm gonna crack one of those punks inside their head!

[recording video for his newborn son] It was kind of a rough morning, at least until you came along. Most of us took some knocks today but that's the way it goes sometimes, might as well hear it now. You came along and you made a lot of people really happy, not just your old man. You're a lucky guy, you were born into a really big family. A lot of people are gonna have your back no matter what. Like I said, not gonna be all sunshine and roses but I can promise it's gonna be a hell of a ride.

[after Mouch announces he and Mari were making lunch] I'm not eating any raw fish.

[raising a glass to Mills] To Peter Mills! A real smoke eater even though he couldn't hack it at truck.

[watching Dawson and Casey argue] This is when Lee Henry starts shouting, "Are you getting divorced? Can I live with Mom?"

Oatmeal?! If I wanted to be healthy and miserable, I would've stayed home!

[grins at Casey and Dawson] Mornin', lovebirds.

When the U.S. Marines stormed Panama to run that crook Noriega out on a rail, he was holed up in the "Holy City". So, how do we smoke him out? A little piece of somethin' special. Psyops, called "noise warfare". These apartment pinheads are about to get a little taste of Panama City circa 1989.

[about a deceased retired firefighter] Guy crawls hallways for thirty years, barely makes it six months into his retirement. Anyway your slice it, it's a raw deal.

This guy defaced our house. That's a middle finger to everyone of us.

[to Dawson and Casey] Sometimes, it is better to live with the pain for a little while. Process it, you know? Losing Louie was a real blow. There is no harm in admitting that to yourselves.

[speaking to his son's class] This is the thing about false alarms: as firefighters, we don't know whether or not it is false, so we need to assume that it's real, and we have to go help the people even though those people may be just playing some big, dumb joke. See, we always help people, whether they deserve it or not.

Yo Peter Mills. My partner Shay, she's been asking about you, been talking about you all morning.

Otis

She's a monster. A dude I know over at 19, he walked with a hitch for a week.

You guys are busting my balls.

Listen to me, kid. I just lost my house to foreclosure because I took a bath in the market. We're now living with my in-laws, which is two bedrooms shy of unpleasant. My wife won't take birth control pills because the pope said if she did God would cry, so I'm not having any sex. So if there's any chance that I could live vicariously through you, it's literally all I got.

All right.

Hey.

Hey.

I'm Peter Mills. Uh Pete.

[chuckles] Uh-huh. Peter Mills. Can you hand me that box right there?

Uh, yeah.

Thanks.

So the little girl from the bridge accident, she okay?

You really are new, aren't you? Listen. We get 'em to the doctor best we can, and then we move on. It's the only way to make it here.

Uh, yeah Yeah. So, um I was thinking I mean, I was wondering do you maybe wanna hook up for a beer or dinner or something?

Peter Mills, are you gay?

Me? No.

Because I am.

Otis

All I'm just saying is, I'm more than happy to design a new seal more reflective of the truck we are. Anything besides a goat!

[to Casey] What's he on about?

He doesn't like our crest.

[to Otis] I love that goat. That goat's all about reversing the curse.

What curse?

The Cubs. A goat owner cursed 'em once, which is why they always suck. Everyone knows that.

Otis

So we have a cursed crest?

How the hell should I know? Leave it alone. The goat rocks.