Joe Dominguez quotes from Nash Bridges

Joe Dominguez

Look at them, you'd think they'd never seen a Mexican in a space suit before.

Joe Dominguez

I don't get it - I never had trouble getting a ride, even as a kid. I mean, even when I looked like latino Charles Manson. No problem.

Lisa Bridges

I thought you were retired, Joe.

Joe Dominguez

[about Lisa and Nash] Why sit at home and watch Jerry Springer when I can see all that stuff live?

Care to tell us what happened, Joe?

Joe Dominguez

Who cares if his father's a president of the San Francisco bank?

Humor me. I care.

Nash Bridges

Let me get this straight - you pepper-sprayed him for illegal parking?

Joe Dominguez

Yes.

Joe Dominguez

He came at me. And I exhausted all proper procedures, A.J.

Nash Bridges

[smirking] I'm sorry I missed that one.

Joe Dominguez

He comes at me saying he knows Kung Fu and that crap. He went down in flames like a twelve o'clock high.

Nash Bridges

Oooh, you bad. [Laughs again]

Joe Dominguez

And that's when he twisted his knee. The funny thing is, he'll probably get a disabled placard now.

Are you two through yet? The I.R. went straight to the chief. And you, carnal, have the distinction of being the only cop I know of ever to get kicked out of traffic.

Joe Dominguez

What about my pension? What about my hog? I kinda liked it.

Your hog? Forget your Harley!

The chief made me take you back.

Nash Bridges

Oh, no!

Joe Dominguez

Got anything out at the airport? Unloading/loading that kinda thing?

You wish. No. We got you back all to ourselves.

Joe Dominguez

[after having been possibly infected by a deadly virus] Just out of curiosity, doctor, what are thee, ah, symptoms of this infection?

After seventy-two hours you get rapidly-rising fever, mental disorientation, um, accumulation of fluid in the lungs, ah, disintegration of the neural system, rhenal and colon failure, liquidation on the internal intestinal membranes, and death within thirty-six hours.

Joe Dominguez

Oh, good, you had me worried there for a minute.

Joe Dominguez

Ah, you wanna handle this one?

Nash Bridges

I don't know. A man on a cable car with a set of wings holding a hand grenade... this is your thing, isn't it?

You realize what just happened?

Nash Bridges

[as they all hide behind a car from a rooftop assassin] Yeah - somebody's trying to kill us.

I found you just like I was supposed to.

Nash Bridges

What? What the hell you talking about?

I'm your guardian angel.

Joe Dominguez

Oh, great - we could use one.

[to Joe] I said I was his guardian angel; you, you're on your own.

Nash Bridges

:[as a suspicious man pushing an ice cream cart approaches then, after just earlier missing multiple assassins] Freeze, bubba, right there!

[after reaching down into the cart] Who? Me?

Nash Bridges

You. Take it out real slow.

[after pulling out a popsicle] If you don't want cherry, I got root beer.

Nash Bridges

[after putting his gun down] No, I'll take cherry.

Joe Dominguez

I'll take root beer. Unless you got a fudgesicle.

Bryn Carson

I dated a shrink once.

Evan Cortez

Yeah, so did I.

Joe Dominguez

Oh, yeah? Well maybe it was the same guy.

Joe Dominguez

So, I had this dream the other night, right? And in this dream I get save from drowning... by David Hasselhoff. Is that normal?

[laughing] It could mean many things.

Joe Dominguez

Wish I had as good a relationship with my wife as you have with your ex wife.

Nash Bridges

divorce her. [laughs]

Joe Dominguez

[as they are being shot at by a pursuing vehicle] You know, if you drive a little slower I might be able to hit something.

Nash Bridges

Yeah? Well, if you'd hit something I might be able to driver a little slower!

Joe Dominguez

So, ah, you're gonna let Cassidy drive the 'Cuda?

Nash Bridges

Yes, I was.

Joe Dominguez

Yeah, but I never get to drive the car. A wonder how that all fits together, doesn't it?

Nash Bridges

What does?

Joe Dominguez

You know, you, your car, your whole attitude towards the Dominguez clan.

Nash Bridges

What are you getting mad about?

Joe Dominguez

Well, you hurt my feelings, all right? I mean, you may not realize it, but J.J. is actually a very decent upstanding young man. You know, God just played a trick on me and put him in a slacker's body.

Nash Bridges

Joe. [laughs]

Joe Dominguez

Hey man, looks are very deceiving, you know? I mean, check it out: if Ingrid sized me up on looks alone, would she have married me?

Nash Bridges

All right, look, I'm going to be honest with you: you know I love J.J., I've always loved that kid. Cassidy, you know Cassidy - she's tough, man; she'll eat J.J. up and spit him out. I'm not going to do that to him. Or to you. I'm serious, man. I'm sorry if I hurt you feelings. I didn't mean to, you know that.

Nash Bridges

San Francisco, damn it's good to be home, isn't it, bubba?

Joe Dominguez

Shhh, yeah, but next time you ask me to go for a ride through the country, forget it.

Nash Bridges

What do you mean, you didn't like the fresh air?

Joe Dominguez

Hey, I love the fresh air; it was the bullets flying through the fresh air I didn't dig.

Harvey Leek

Hey! Somebody want to let us out of here? We're police officers - we don't belong here!

Joe Dominguez

Shut up! That's not an asset in here!