Benny Severide quotes from Chicago Fire

Otis

[to Severide as Devin walks in] Kind of unfair that I have to pay rent and she doesn't.

Life is unfair, Otis.

Severide

[to Otis] There you go.

Severide

Tell me something. Is closing firehouses a dream of yours when you were a kid?

[sarcastically] Always at the top of my bucket list.

Severide

I don't have a whole lot of construction experience.

[deadpan] Can you swing a hammer?

Severide

[grins] I get it. This is your chance to be my boss and yell at me at a job site.

Mouch

A firefighter brother recently asked me, what makes a good squad guy. He said, "Hey, Randy McHolland, what makes––"

Severide

[interrupts Mouch] Hold up, hold up. Mouch, why do you keep referring to yourself in the third person?

Mouch

Ok, look, I'm trying to subtly reinforce my real name so you guys start calling me that. 'Cause now that I'm interim president, I don't think a nickname that means "half man and half couch" is appropriate anymore.

Severide

Then why don't you just say, hey guys quit calling me Mouch.

Mouch

You're right. I should've.

Otis

Lieutenant, do you have a second?

Severide

Yeah, what's up.

Otis

I would like to ask Katie out on a date and I was hoping for your blessing.

Severide

Just checking the spark arrestor. Wanna make sure the motor is running good.

Otis

[timidly] That makes sense.

Severide

Um. [feigns a cough] What were we talkin' about?

Otis

Nah, uh, let me go check and see if lunch is ready.

Otis

I wanna ask your sister out, ok? I have nothing but the best of intentions. Do I have your permission?

Severide

[stares at Otis] Sure. [pats him on the shoulder]

Otis

Awesome! 'Cause I'm telling I am the ultimate––

Severide

[interrupts] Take "yes" as an answer, Otis.

Severide

You ok?

Yeah. Used up another one of my nine lives.

Severide

Pretty sure you're in double digits, man.

What am I dealing with here?

Severide

Jones?

Yeah.

Severide

She's smart, she's aggressive, she's talented. But she also has a truly massive chip on her shoulder. She might make a great firefighter someday but it'll take more patience than I have. I tried to bounce her from the academy but her big-shot daddy put the kibosh on that one.

You're telling me this now??

Severide

You just asked now.

Severide

I owe you one.

Dinner? [Severide stares at her] Oh, I'm just messing with you. You wouldn't be able to handle me anyway. Snap you right in half.

Severide

Umm...

[deadpan] So, beat it. I've got work to do.

Severide

How's everything with you and Dawson? [Casey looks at him and scoffs] What?

I was about to ask you for relationship advice, but that'd be like fitness tips from Mouch.

Severide

I have been in a lot of meaningful relationships.

Oh, yeah? What was meaningful about them?

Severide

Chivalry prevents me from going any further into it.

Severide

Damn Dawson, you look like hell!

(laughs) I'm not 100% sure I'm not dreaming.

So. You comin' back to 51?

Severide

The house is cursed, Casey. There's nothing but misery and heartbreak there.

You know, how you spend your time off shift, that's your business. But people in this house count on you.

Severide

You know what I can count on? Nothing. No one. So why don't you and everyone else in this house just leave me alone.

Severide

And this is where I learned all about firefighting. I learned as much about protecting people from Shay as I did from any instructor at the academy.

Yeah?

Severide

Yeah. That's her badge. Shay was intense. She'd do anything to protect the people she loved.

I wish I had known her.

Severide

You ready to be a dad?

Nope, not at all.

You tell your father yet?

Yeah. He cried so hard, I nearly sent the Orlando fire department over to check on him.

Severide

[sits down in Pridgen's office] What can I do for you, Chief?

Ahh, I wanted to get your take on Lieutenant Casey.

Severide

You mean my roommate and good friend, that Lieutenant Casey?

This would of course be an entirely confidential discussion.

Severide

Ok, well, Matt Casey is about one of the finest firefighters I've had the opportunity to work with in the entire CFD.

He runs a sloppy company and he lacks respect for his superiors.

Severide

I disagree. But, you know, you're entitled to your opinion. [gets up] If there's nothing else...

Help me keep an eye on him.

Severide

Keep an eye on Casey?

I'll make it worth your while.

Severide

Chief, this kind of stuff, this scheming behind closed doors and "keeping an eye" on other officers, that's not how we do things here at 51.