Robert Goren quotes from Law & Order: Criminal Intent, page 17 ... TV Quotes Database

Played by Vincent D'Onofrio

Law & Order: Criminal Intent · 798 quotes

Most-quoted character in Law & Order: Criminal Intent: in 327 of its 798 quotes
Most scenes with: Alexandra Eames (125), Ron Carver (26), Capt. Deakins (17)

Scenes with Robert Goren 263

BSBody snatcher

Better I take them than leave them for Donald.

Goren

Who's Donald?

BSBody snatcher

A demon, of course.

S1 E15 Unfinished Business

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Goren

They're an interesting couple.

Eames

The killer and Mrs. Magoo.

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Goren

I see why you're not angry at her. Because she's a reflection of everything that you've done to her.

WWhitlock

I did nothing but help her.

Goren

No, you terrorized her! You got kicked around at work, you came home, and you crushed her.

WWhitlock

I never laid a hand on her!

Goren

You didn't have to!

S1 E15 Unfinished Business

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[Eames falls asleep during a late-night stakeout. Goren wakes her up by waving a cup of coffee under her nose.]

Eames

[waking] Don't you sleep?

Goren

There's a lot to do.

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{A master burglar has stolen valuable silverware, leaving the disassembled cabinet pieces neatly piled on the floor. But, the homeowner's money and checkbook was left behind.]

Eames

He took the silver, but not the cash. He's making fun of us.

Goren

Well, I would, too, if I were this good.

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[Goren and Eames have tracked the burglar's female partner to a hotel office. Goren notices a desk has been moved.]

Goren

She moved the desk from here?

HAHotel auditor

Yeah, she wanted it moved away from the outlets. Said the smell of electricity made her sick.

Goren

[to Eames] The smell of electricity.

Eames

I thought I could smell moonbeams.

Goren

Oh, when you were pregnant. [realizing] Well, that's why he was playing it safe. Because he wanted to be there for the baby.

Eames

I think I'm gonna cry.

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WKWesley Kenderson

This is the last time we meet like this, detective. [taken away in a police car]

Goren

I hope so.

KMrs. Kenderson

Hope is for suckers, detective.

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MDr. Manotti

[to Eames, regarding Goren's unorthodox investigative style] Does he play the siren when he drives?

Goren

[chuckles] She drives.

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CCarly

I didn't kill her.

Goren

We don't care. You're who we've got.

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Logan

Funny how bad apples always find each other.

Goren

Maybe it's their barrels that make the apples bad.

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[Goren and Deakins have just listened to a tape of a man with a Southern accent arguing with an auction worker.]

Goren

"Tortious interference". A lawyer?

CDCapt. Deakins

Worse. A Texas lawyer.

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Carver

He gives new meaning to the phrase "Give till it hurts".

Goren

He gives because he hurts.

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LLipton

I don't even know who she is.

Goren

I-I think that you do, 'cause when I mentioned her name your pulse went up, but when I said that she was missing, you didn't skip a beat. So I don't think it's news to you.

LLipton

My, my. A human polygraph.

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Goren

So he killed her without touching her.

Eames

And they say all the good men are taken.

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Goren

[checking furniture surfaces for cocaine] Try the chair.