Bobby Donnell quotes from The Practice

Bobby

You said she was a good person.

Lindsay

She is. But, but that doesn't mean you should sleep with her.

Bobby

I'm not gonna sleep with her! I'm just gonna put on a Simba mask and go to a party.

Lindsay

And don't think for a second she won't be Nala.

Bobby

Excuse me?

Bobby

You know, you're putting yourself in a soup being seen with me.

Helen

I like soup. The hotter, the better.

Bobby

I'll try to remember that.

Bobby

Eugene, you claim I don't understand. I'll accept that, I will. I don't understand what it's like to be subjected...over and over and over again. I'll accept I'll never get that. But you know a man did die here, and the "I've had it" theory as a defense to manslaughter, I'll never understand that either.

Eugene

Just a legal strategy. You got yours and...I got mine.

Bobby

Yeah. But yours came from the heart.

Bobby

I'm not sure it's a smart idea making it about race. Wellesley, all white jury.

Helen

I think it's a perfect jury to make it about race. Rich, affluent, white town. These are the people that are desperate to reach out to minorities, so long as they don't have to meet one.

Lindsay

With Helen. What's stopping you?

Bobby

What? Why? She said something?

Lindsay

She says you seem stuck, like you want to go forward but you won't.

Bobby

Well, it's just that I... I like her. That- that may be the problem. I like her.

Lindsay

And?

Bobby

And before I go down that road I gotta be sure about... everything else. You know?

Lindsay

Bobby, everything else is clear.

Helen

[about Sam] You want me to arrest him?

Bobby

Yeah.

Helen

To give his life meaning?

Bobby

Yes.

Helen

It's not exactly what we do here, Bobby.

Bobby

Yes, I know. I was just hoping...

Helen

Do you know how many cases I have... with real criminals?

Bobby

You know how many clients I have, real criminals?

Bobby

Jimmy, if you're not going to be OK with this...

Jimmy

No, I'll be fine.

Bobby

Good.

Jimmy

I love babysitting murderers. Hey, you said be candid. Pay no attention to the cameras.

Eugene

Bobby, on the next one, I want off.

Bobby

What do you mean, you want off?

Eugene

I mean, I want off. One rape a week is my limit.

You hear them? Every note is dead on. We're good!

Bobby

Very good, but...

So, we have a case. They can't reject us just because we're Christian. It's against the law. First amendment!

Bobby

It's a synagogue, Ms. Burl. They can reject you on Christianity.

Helen

The day I stop winning my cases, I'm gone.

Bobby

Because of me.

Helen

Because of you.

Bobby

[about Helen] You told her?

Lindsay

Bobby, she asked me flat out. I had to.

Bobby

What was her reaction?

Lindsay

She's okay with it. Yeah, it happened before her. She's a big girl but stop sucking her elbows.

Lindsay

I've been thinking about your little accusation.

Bobby

Ahh, I'm sorry about that.

Lindsay

I didn't tell her about us with any motive to break you up and I do think you make a great couple. But, I'd be lying if I said I didn't miss you.

Lindsay

Are you really ready to throw someone you love away for a case?

Bobby

Yes. I got this case because somebody at a high-rise blue chip law firm recommended me. As the best. I've been practicing law in that rat hole for ten years, looking out the window, seeing those lawyers look down on me. And now one of them came into my office and said I'm the best. I like how I got this case, Lindsay. I like that I'm gonna try it in the media and that I'm gonna get paid a lot to do it and I'm gonna win it. [with glistening eyes] I'm gonna win it.

Rebecca

Do you ever stop and think about the business we're in?

Bobby

Why would I ever want to do that?

Bobby

You think just because you got away with it last time that you can get away with it whenever?

[Smugly] Yes.