Neal Washington quotes from Hill Street Blues

Washington

[to LaRue after he watches him come on to Kristie, the high-schooler] I'm just going to say three words to you, baby: "Statu Tory Rape."

Hill

[to Renko] You want to be like John D. LaRue with a pint in your pocket? Fine, but you get yourself another partner...'cause I care about what I do!

Washington

[to Hill] Hey, babe. Uh, you want to run a couple of those lines past me again? I think I'm gonna need 'em on J.D.

LaRue

Who are you, my mother?

Washington

Closer than that, man, I'm your partner.

Washington

Look, baby, I know you went to a lot of trouble to line up this opportunity, but I guess I'm just kind of attached to this town, you know?

LaRue

Oh-h-h-h, me too! Hey, don't get me wrong. Hell, I love junkies getting sick on my shoes twice a week, I get off on transvestites' dried blood, people lunging at me with barbecue forks…oh, yeah…this town? Regular joy machine!

Washington

[holding up a bag of drugs] Oh, man, look at all this powdered sugar! What were you doing, my man, making a cake?

I get a phone call, don't I?

Bates

One ten-cent call. That's it.

Coffey

And no intergalactic area codes, okay?

Washington

LaRue's got a couple of rough edges, so what?

I know guys in midtown who take his career bio for light reading in the john…you take away the rough edges and all you got is a Rolex and a cheap pair of loafers.

LaRue

[presenting a cow's heart, which he tries to pass off as Buddy Gannett's, for the bet] Hey, Benedetto. Check it out. I don't know too much about anatomy, gentlemen, but that sure looks like a heart to me.

Lame, LaRue, no sale.

LaRue

Hey, whoa whoa…what are you talking about? We don't dig bookies that welch up here! That's Buddy Gannett's ticker!

Yeah? And where's his udder?

LaRue

What's he mean?

Washington

I think the man means, he believes that's a cow's heart, J.D.

LaRue

Bull.

Could be.

Washington

[Bobby's boxing match is about to commence] This guy is a real chump, Bobby.

LaRue

He couldn't hit the ground falling out of a tree.

LaRue

[out of Bobby's earshot] Bobby's dead.

Washington

Simmons'll kill 'em.

Ain't no big deal, man, I be high in an hour. Then I got me some business to take care of.

Washington

You ain't doing business no more, chump, you got that? You are getting done to!