Runaway Jury Movie Quotes
Rankin Fitch
Gentlemen, trials are too important to be left up to juries.
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Rankin Fitch
You think your average juror is King Solomon? No, he's a roofer with a mortgage. He wants to go home and sit in his Barcalounger and let the cable TV wash over him. And this man doesn't give a single, solitary droplet of shit about truth, justice or your American way.
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Eddie Weese
But he's blind, man. So what? So is justice, right?
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Rankin Fitch
What do you hope to achieve if you win? You gonna bring Jacob Wood back to life? No. You just ensure that his wife goes to the cemetery in a better car, and that the heel that she snaps on the way to the graveside belongs to a $1,200 shoe. You get your name in the paper. But Jacob Wood and all the other gun violence victims remain rotting in their crypts.
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Rankin Fitch
...the thing of it is, I don't give a shit. What's more... I never have.
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Nicholas Easter
Goodbye, Fitch.
Rankin Fitch
Well, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait... How did you swing 'em, huh? How did you swing 'em your way? I hear you got ten votes. How'd you do that?
Nicholas Easter
[shrugs]
I didn't swing anything. I just stopped you from stealing the thing. We let 'em vote their hearts. That means you lose. Enjoy your drink.
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Rankin Fitch
Everybody has a secret they don't want you to find.
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Rankin Fitch
Ah, I hate Baptists almost as much as I hate Democrats.
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Rankin Fitch
I must say, I'm impressed, Mr. Kerr...
Nicholas Easter
Easter.
Rankin Fitch
"Easter." Correct... I didn't see you coming. Ovbiously I, uh, underestimated you. And as a rule, I don't do that. Make damn sure... you don't underestimate me.
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Nicholas Easter
[talking about a dead friend]
Listen, I dunno if it would be inappropriate, but do you think we could do something today to remember him?
Rikki Coleman
We could say the Lord's Prayer.
Nicholas Easter
Well, I don't want to ask people to pray...
Millie Dupree
How about "God Bless America"?
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Nicholas Easter
So, what? I'm supposed to convince you that I have them, right?
Rankin Fitch
Oh, I think you've probably got them, or-or you will have. I just wanna' know why.
Nicholas Easter
Money.
Rankin Fitch
Safer ways for a sharp kid like you to make money. What's the real reason?
Nicholas Easter
Business, politics, sports... you tell me what *isn't* rigged? I mean, is there even such a thing as an objective jury, Mr. Fitch?
Nicholas Easter
Then why should all the lawyers and guys like you make all the profit?
Rankin Fitch
You don't have much faith in the Law!
Nicholas Easter
I'm agnostic.
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Wendell Rohr
Is that why you're doing this? To protect the constitution, is that it?
Rankin Fitch
Of course not. I'm in it to win.
Wendell Rohr
Oh.
Rankin Fitch
Just like you are.
Wendell Rohr
Yeah.
Rankin Fitch
Because that's what I was hired to do.
Wendell Rohr
Uh huh.
Rankin Fitch
Everything else is colored bubbles.
Wendell Rohr
Colored bubbles! Colored bubbles? A system that calls for twelve people to sit and listen to testimony of witnesses, fella, and that includes my witness, who you've disappeared!
Rankin Fitch
If you're relying on testimony to win this case, you've already lost it! Fella!
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Nicholas Easter
[after anti-gun fanatic is dragged kicking and screaming from the courtroom during jury selection]
Well, I guess that's lunch...
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Rankin Fitch
Somebody add "class-clown" to Mr. Easter's ever expanding resume.
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Nicholas Easter
I'm Nick Easter, sir. Juror number nine
Judge Harkin
And just what do you think you're doing outside of that Juror Room, Mr Easter-Juror-Number-Nine?
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Pulaski
[cleaning fountain]
Ah, bilge ring keeps crappin' out, blocking up the damn pump. I got it now, Nick.
Nicholas Easter
Last time, you nearly took out every sink in the quarter, you know.
Pulaski
Hey, that was those kids messing with the water main.
[coughs from cigarette]
Nicholas Easter
You know, you should really quit those things.
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Henry Jankle
...I was under the impression that we'd already purchased ourselves a verdict.
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Judge Harkin
I'm not sure, but I believe I'm buying lunch.
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Marlee
Anybody can be gotten to.
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Wendell Rohr
There's gonna be another shooting, and another shooting, and it's not gonna let up until we demand a change.
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Rankin Fitch
...you're losing me my jury!
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Doyle
It's a set-up.
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Rankin Fitch
Nice suit. Very, uh... of the people.
Wendell Rohr
Yours is nicer, what would you call it - gun lobby protecting its own? Ooh! Swank shoes. Big tobacco?
Rankin Fitch
Big alligator. Wrestled it myself.
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Rankin Fitch
You think this jury cares anything about negligent distribution, product liability?
Wendell Rohr
You bet your ass they do!
Rankin Fitch
Aw, most of them can't even say the words, let alone understand the meaning! You think your average juror is King Solomon? No! He's a roofer with a mortgage. He wants to go home and sit in his Barcalounger and let the cable TV wash over him. And this man doesn't give a single, solitary droplet of shit about truth, justice or your American way.
Wendell Rohr
... they're people, Fitch.
Rankin Fitch
My point exactly!
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Rankin Fitch
[as Nick and Marlee walk away]
What, do you think you can just walk away from this? Huh? And I'm betting that the two of you - you can't stop! Because if you did, what would you have? NOTHING! Nothing!
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