The Practice quotes

Bobby

You think it's tough defending the guilty, Lindsay? Try the innocent... it's terrifying.

Bobby

If I don't give the closing of my life tomorrow, a 17-year old girl loses hers.

Eugene

Then there's the smell.

Pearson

Beg pardon?

Eugene

Well, the jury takes a whiff of this, a whiff of that, gets kind of a hunch for the truth. They're going to smell your client, smell ours, smell you, smell me. Kind of like scratch and sniff litigation.

Pearson

That wasn't a negotiation, it's a gift. I was throwing you a bone.

Lindsay

It's just that, um...well...I was looking for a bigger bone.

Pearson

You have some secret strategy unknown to any other law firm in the world?

Eugene

We cheat.

You threatened to break his kneecaps?

Eugene

Not break...dislocate.

Right in front of his lawyer?

Eugene

Well, it would have been unethical for me to do it outside of counsel.

Rebecca

Bobby, your hookers are here.

Bobby

[annoyed] Clients, Rebecca.

Rebecca

Yeah... your clients. They're here.

Bobby

Your honor. I now will be asking you to recuse yourself given my client's attack on your safety.

I am not recusing myself, counsel. I'm sure your client is very distraught and I promise to be understanding. I'll consider myself misunderstood.

Pearson

What was all that, Lindsay?

Lindsay

The beginning, professor.

Pearson

Do you know what you're in for?

Lindsay

I think so. Do you?

Bobby

Still, if we can get that judge off this case.

Lindsay

What are you thinking?

Bobby

I'm thinking that if that judge slept with a woman in Pearson's firm, that is a card. And it's not beneath me to play it.

Rebecca

Bobby, you want to keep this place in operation, that's fine. But you better think real hard about exactly what it is you're trying to keep going.

If Gerald Braun came to you before, and said, "Oh, by the way, I'm going to kill Ronald Martin", I hardly think you'd give him your moral blessing.

Well, you would be wrong, Mr. Goode. Because Dr. Braun did come to me, and I did give him my blessing.

Bobby

Waive reading, your honor. Plead not guilty.

Bail?

Bobby

Your honor, Dr. Braun cannot be considered a flight risk, Judge. He's a health risk, goes about shooting people in the head.

But I'm not a victim anymore. I'm not. I shot him. I shot him and I watched his neck explode. And then I heard him gurgle. And it was joyous. He suffered, and I thank God above he had time to know why he was dying. Today I'm at peace.

Eugene

The general description you were talking about, that would be...black...big head? :Police Officer: Yes.

Eugene

Did you or your partner approximate the circumference of my client's cranium?