Martin Vail: [sitting with Jack Connerman in a bar] You either run for office or you wind up a judge. Why become an umpire when you can play ball?
Martin Vail: [while walking into the Bishop's home, owned by the Catholic Church] Yeah, I'm Martin Vail, from the public defender's office. I'm handling the Aaron Stampler case.
Cop: Hm, the Butcher Boy.
Martin Vail: Yes, thank you, I forgot his real name.
Archbishop Rushman: [stepping to podium, slowing smiling then laughing, implying to the audience it was a joke] Well I must say, I haven't seen so many lawyers and politicians gathered together in one place since confession this morning.
Archbishop Rushman: [audience laughter]
Martin Vail: [to Aaron, while in the solitary confinement room] I don't have to believe you. I don't care if you are innocent. I'm your mother, your father, your priest.
Martin Vail: [sitting with Jack Connerman in a bar] First thing that I ask a new client is, "Have you been saving up for a rainy day? Guess what? It's raining!"
Martin Vail: [while in Aaron's solitary confinement room] I speak. You do not speak. Your job is to just sit there and look innocent.
Janet Venable: [aggressively to Aaron on the witness stand] Do you know what I would do if someone did that to me? I would kill him, I wouldn't hesitate. I would stab him 78 times. I would chop off his fingers, slash his throat open, carve numbers in his chest, gouge out his eyes, I swear to God!... But that's me.
[arguing before the judge]
Janet Venable: Next thing you know, he'll be objecting to introducing the murder weapon into evidence!
Martin Vail: [Janet gestures to judge, referring to Martin's intentions] Well, now that you bring it up...
Joey Pinero: [while walking through Joey Pinero's old neighborhood] See this lot here? This lot used to be houses. In fact, there was a house over there on the corner where I kissed my first girl friend. Got her pregnant, too.
Martin Vail: Hell of a kiss, Joey.
Tommy Goodman: [after Martin told Tommy what Aaron had told him, with Naomi present] That... is... a... bullshit story!
Martin Vail: Now it's *our* bullshit story.
Judge Miriam Shoat: [to Marty Vail] You are making a mockery of my courtroom and I'm not going to allow it! I suggest you start representing your client and stop representing yourself!
Joey Pinero: [to Martin, standing outside his bar with Joey's associates standing nearby] How are they going to kill a man who never sleeps?
Naomi Chance: [to Martin, inside his office, inside his law firm] But that means you have to change the plea to insanity, which you can't do mid-trial, unless of course you're planning on a career change.
Roy: [to Martin, talking in a southern accent, about Aaron, using a southern accent, while in his solitary confinement room] Hell, he couldn't kick his own ass.
