Professor Annalise Keating quotes from How to Get Away With Murder

Annalise

Good morning. I don't know what terrible things you've done in your life up to this point, but clearly your karma's out of balance to get assigned to my class. I'm Professor Annalise Keating and this is Criminal Law 100, or, as I prefer to call it, How to Get Away with Murder.

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Never take a learning opportunity away from another student. No matter how smart you need everyone to think you are.

Annalise

Think carefully, everything after this moment will not only determine your career but life. You can spend it in a corporate office drafting contracts and hitting on chubby paralegals before finally putting a gun in your mouth or you can join my firm and become someone you actually like. So decide: do you want the job or not?

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Do you know who anyone really is?!

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Choose your husband carefully, Ms. Pratt. You'll only have yourself to blame if it ends badly.

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[speaking to Sam] Why is your penis on a dead girl's phone?

Annalise

Sam, it's me. I didn't think that you would pick up. Still there's so much I need to say to you in person, not by phone but I guess this will have to do. We've built a life together, Sam, twenty years. Whatever we've said to each other, all the horrible things. We've seen each other through so much, everything good and bad in our lives. So much pain. So much happiness. It's a rare thing to know someone that well and bare witness to so much in someone's life. So I'm asking you right now, no begging, please forgive me for what I said. I didn't mean any of it and I know you didn't either. I don't want things to end this way. I want us to work through this. I want us to be together. Because whatever you did, whatever the truth is, I will stay by your side through all of it, no matter what. Because I'm your wife and I love you and I need you. So please come home, Sam. Come home so we can be together. Come home.

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Let me help you. Let me help you. Because if you do, I promise you will get away with this.

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Thank God I don't have a gun or I'd shoot her myself.

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Whatever you say to the police can and will be misconstrued to support the prosecution. So when in doubt, shut your mouth.

Annalise

Let's have the trial. You've all convinced yourselves that we were wrong, that Sam didn't kill Lila, that we got Rebecca off for nothing. And you feel unfairly persecuted, trapped. I don't blame you. So let's be fair to everyone and figure it out once and for all. Let's finally give Rebecca her day in court.

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Do you want to keep your business or do you want to go to jail for being a negligent slut?

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I think about it a lot, killing myself. I have ever since I was a child. A lot of times I think the world would be a much better place without me in it. But I don't do it. You're a better woman than me and if I don't deserve to die, then you definitely don't.

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I'll protect you, Asher, but we need to protect Bonnie too. That's what we do for people that we love, right?

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Me not paying attention to you is the best compliment you could ever get. 'Cause that means I don't have to worry about you. Go back to the office and stop being needy.