Law Abiding Citizen Quotes

Law Abiding Citizen is a television program that debuted in 1970 . Law Abiding Citizen stopped airing in 1970.

It features Plain list, * Gerard Butler; Kurt Wimmer * Mark Gill * Lucas Foster * Alan Siegel as producer, Brian Tyler in charge of musical score, and Jonathan Sela as head of cinematography.

Law Abiding Citizen is recorded in English and originally aired in United States. Each episode of Law Abiding Citizen is 118 minutes long. Law Abiding Citizen is distributed by Overture Films.

The cast includes: Bruce McGill as Jonas Cantrell, Michael Kelly as Bray, Jamie Foxx as Nick Rice, Gerard Butler as Clyde Shelton, Annie Corley as Judge Laura Burch, Christian Stolte as Clarence Darby, Colm Meaney as Detective Dunnigan, Regina Hall as Kelly Rice, Leslie Bibb as Sarah Lowell, Emerald-Angel Young as Denise Rice, Richard Portnow as Bill Reynolds, and Josh Stewart as Rupert Ames.

Law Abiding Citizen Quotes

Gerard Butler as Clyde Shelton

• (Gerard Butler) "I want one of those really nice beds. I just -- I can't think straight without a nice sleep. The bed in my cell is just so lumpy."
• (Jamie Foxx) "The ones on TV really late night?"
• (Gerard Butler) "Yeah, that's the one."
• (Jamie Foxx) "The one with the old couple in the bed?"
• (Gerard Butler) "Yeah. It has lumbar support."
• (Jamie Foxx) "Okay, I know what you mean."
• (Gerard Butler) "So? Are you going to take the deal?"
• (Jamie Foxx) "f*** no."

• (Gerard Butler) "ln my experience, Nick, lessons not learned in blood are soon forgotten."

• (Dwight Dixon) "What'd you do to get in here, anyways?"
• (Gerard Butler) "I did what I had to do."

• (Gerard Butler) "You're the one who makes deals with murderers yeah? Well I've come to make mine. Release me."
• (Jamie Foxx) "Or what?"
• (Gerard Butler) "Or I kill everyone."

• (Gerard Butler) "I took his fingers with bolt cutters, his toes with tin snips, his balls with a hack saw, and his penis with a box cutter, how's that for specifics?"

• (Gerard Butler) "This -- Tetrodotoxin. Should be nicely into your system by now. Isolated from the liver of a Caribbean Puffer Fish. So, it paralyzes you -- and leaves all the other neurological functions perfectly intact. In other words, you can't move -- but you feel everything. It does absolutely nothing to blunt the pain -- and you're about to experience more of that, than you could ever f***ing imagine."

• (Gerard Butler) "I don't think he likes me very much."

• (Gerard Butler) "I wasn't expecting company"
• (Jamie Foxx) "I'm onto to you, your plan was very clever"
• (Gerard Butler) "That's how winners play we're "convincing" the other guy's that his making all the right moves"
• (Jamie Foxx) "I know, I got it."
• (Gerard Butler) "Did you ever catch my accomplice?"
• (Jamie Foxx) "Yeah I did, it's the end of the road for him now, you played us real good."
• (Gerard Butler) "Thank you I'm glad you're starting to appreciate some of the effort I put into all of this."
• (Jamie Foxx) "You set out to make a point and you made it."
• (Gerard Butler) "People still don't get it, they still don't appreciate what I'm trying to say but they will, soon enough."
• (Jamie Foxx) "A man I cared about once told me we can't retract the decisions we've made we can only affect the decisions we're going to make from here"
• (Gerard Butler) "Are you trying to save me now?"
• (Jamie Foxx) "I'm giving you a way out, it's a big difference stand up for those principles you've been preaching we're all held accountable, that includes you why don't you do the "right thing"?"
• (Gerard Butler) "I'm doing the "right thing" you just have to see it that way"
• (Jamie Foxx) "By murdering all those people, you're not going to change anything or anybody's way of thinking"
• (Gerard Butler) "What do you suggest? Make another deal? One final offer?"
• (Jamie Foxx) "I don't make deals with murderers anymore you taught me that."

• (Gerard Butler) "I need a shower, Warden."

• (Gerard Butler) "These are tourniquets, so you don't bleed out, 'cause you may be here a while."
• (Gerard Butler) "Saline solution, that should keep us going."
• (Gerard Butler) "Clamps nice and secure. Comfortable? You really are shaking. Sure you're all right?"
• (Gerard Butler) "You'll love this. Adrenaline. Now this is so you don't pass out."
• (Gerard Butler) "There you go. How's it feel? Good? Now what we don't want is you swallowing your tongue, so bear with me --"
• (Gerard Butler) "There we go."
• (Gerard Butler) "Now this is for your penis, but we'll get to that later."
• (Gerard Butler) "Scalpel. This is for your eyelids -- in case you insist on f***ing shutting them. You see, I know what it feels like to be helpless. Just like when I watched you slaughter my whole family. Oh, you can't fight fate, right, Darby? Oh. Look, I made this especially for you."
• (Gerard Butler) "You like it? I didn't want you to miss anything. Now you have the best view in the house. You hear that? Your heart is beating so fast. You know, me too. Look."
• (Gerard Butler) "Now they get to watch you suffer. They'll be the last thing you ever see -- as I cut off every single one of your f***ing limbs. See, I wasn't lying when I told you I wanted to keep you out of prison. That was the truth."

• (Gerard Butler) "I'm just getting started. I'm gonna pull the whole thing down. I gonna bring the whole f***in' diseased corrupt temple down on your heads. It's gonna be Biblical."

• (Gerard Butler) "Thank you."
• (Annie Corley) "Excuse me?"
• (Gerard Butler) "No, I don't think I will excuse you. You see, this is what I'm talking about. You were about to let me go. Are you kidding me? This is why we're here in the first place. You think I don't remember who you are, lady?"
• (Annie Corley) "I would tread carefully, Mr. Shelton."
• (Gerard Butler) "Well, how carefully should I tread? Because apparently I just killed two people, and you were about to let me walk right out that door. How MISGUIDED are you? I feed you a couple of bulls*** legal precedents, and there you go; you jump on it like a bitch in heat. Folks, you all hang out --"
• (Annie Corley) "I'm warning you, Mr. Shelton."
• (Gerard Butler) "-- in the same little club --"
• (Annie Corley) "You will be held in contempt."
• (Gerard Butler) "-- and every day you let madmen and murderers back on the street. You're too busy treating the law --"
• (Annie Corley) "One more time."
• (Gerard Butler) "-- like it's a f***ing assembly line."
• (Annie Corley) "One more time."
• (Gerard Butler) "Do you have any idea what justice is?"
• (Annie Corley) "You are now --"
• (Gerard Butler) "Whatever happened to right and wrong?"
• (Annie Corley) "-- in contempt of court."
• (Gerard Butler) "Whatever happened to right and wrong?"
• (Annie Corley) "Remove this man."
• (Gerard Butler) "Whatever happened to the people?"
• (Annie Corley) "Bail denied."
• (Gerard Butler) "Whatever happened to justice?"
• (Annie Corley) "Bail denied."
• (Gerard Butler) "And I bet you take it up the f***ing ass, bitch."
• (Annie Corley) "Bailiff."
• (Gerard Butler) "Hey, see you later, Nick."

• (Gerard Butler) "I didn't hear back from you and I made some notes on the case, some good ideas"
• (Jamie Foxx) "Do you trust me?"
• (Gerard Butler) "yes of course"
• (Jamie Foxx) "Darby has agreed to testify against Ames with Darby's testimony, Ames will go to Death Row"
• (Gerard Butler) "What about Darby then?"
• (Jamie Foxx) "Darby will plead guilty of murder"
• (Gerard Butler) "In what degree?"
• (Jamie Foxx) "Third"
• (Gerard Butler) "Then he would only serve five years at best? I'm sorry I don't understand"
• (Jamie Foxx) "We had a set back the judge ruled the DNA evidence is inadmissible"
• (Gerard Butler) "What?"
• (Jamie Foxx) "Exclusionary rule the opposing counsel maneuvered it"
• (Gerard Butler) "You said this part of the case was "clear cut" we had the blood on the shirt"
• (Jamie Foxx) "It's covered under the same rule"
• (Gerard Butler) "What about the rest of the forensic evidence?"
• (Jamie Foxx) "It's not conclusive"
• (Gerard Butler) "But I saw their faces I saw them kill my wife and child"
• (Jamie Foxx) "You blacked out, your testimony won't be reliable if we put you on the stand the defense would tear you apart"
• (Gerard Butler) "The jury's going to believe me though because it's the truth"
• (Jamie Foxx) "We could lose and then we have nothing we could spend a whole year, spend millions of dollars and both of them could end up going free"
• (Gerard Butler) "Please don't do this"
• (Jamie Foxx) "I made the deal I'm sorry, I know you don't think this right now but this is a victory for us"

Bruce McGill as Jonas Cantrell

• (Bruce McGill) "The hard part isn't making the decision. It's living with it."

• (Bruce McGill) "Clyde's government contract payments were bothering me, so I pulled some ancient strings. We're meeting someone."
• (Jamie Foxx) "Who might that be?"
• (Bruce McGill) "Someone who does some really nasty s*** so we can live the American Dream."

• (Bruce McGill) "Once you make a decision, live with it and move on, this job's best asset is a short memory and don't beat yourself up over it, there's already too many people doing it."
• (Jamie Foxx) "Is this where you tell me some old fable or wise tale?"
• (Bruce McGill) "Alright I got one: Marcus Aurelius hired a servant to follow behind him as he made his way around the roman town square and this servant's only job was to constantly whisper in his ear "you're only a man" when people praised him."
• (Jamie Foxx) "That's bulls***, you don't even know what the story means."

Jamie Foxx as Nick Rice

• (Jamie Foxx) "Why does anybody tunnel into prison?"

• (Jamie Foxx) "You think your wife and daughter would feel good about you killing in their name?"
• (Gerard Butler) "My wife and daughter can't feel anything. They're dead."

• (Jamie Foxx) "Please f*** this up, so I can destroy you."

• (Jamie Foxx) "You end this."
• (Gerard Butler) "I'm just gettin' warmed up."

• (Jamie Foxx) "Is your name Clyde Alexander Shelton?"
• (Gerard Butler) "Yes sir"
• (Jamie Foxx) "And you've waived your right to counsel is that correct?"
• (Gerard Butler) "Yes sir"
• (Jamie Foxx) "You sure you want to do that?"
• (Gerard Butler) "Yes sir"
• (Jamie Foxx) "Did you murder Clarence Darby?"
• (Gerard Butler) "I wanted him dead he killed my wife and child"
• (Jamie Foxx) "Rupert Ames, did you murder him too?"
• (Gerard Butler) "Rupert Ames deserved to die, they both deserved to die"
• (Jamie Foxx) "So you arranged both of those murders?"
• (Gerard Butler) "I planned it in my head over and over again, it took me a long time"
• (Jamie Foxx) "I guess we're done"
• (Gerard Butler) "Counselor, you might want to cancel your 12:30 lunch with Judge Roberts"
• (Jamie Foxx) "Excuse me?"
• (Gerard Butler) "In fact you might want to cancel the rest of the week because you're going to be busy sit down"
• (Jamie Foxx) "We're done here we have your confession"
• (Gerard Butler) "Oh, you do?"
• (Jamie Foxx) "On tape, in our profession we consider that a "slam dunk""
• (Gerard Butler) "What father wouldn't fantasize about that? "Darby and Ames deserved to die" I think most people would agree with that, "I planned it over and over in my head" who wouldn't fantasize about that? None of these are admissions of guilt."

• (Jamie Foxx) "it's very good, you cook better than your mother"
• (Regina Hall) "I heard that, are you going to our daughter's recital this afternoon?"
• (Jamie Foxx) "I thought you were going to order the DVD."
• (Regina Hall) "That's not the same."
• (Emerald-Angel Young) "Its ok I know dad's got to work."
• (Jamie Foxx) "That's right dad's got to work, and what does dad do during the day?"
• (Emerald-Angel Young) "Lock up bad guys"
• (Jamie Foxx) "And why does he do that?"
• (Emerald-Angel Young) "To keep us safe"

• (Jamie Foxx) "you know you don't have to go to this if you don't want to."
• (Leslie Bibb) "Yeah I do, what's it like?"
• (Jamie Foxx) "No biggie, It's like watching someone fall asleep."
• (Leslie Bibb) "Except the not waking up part? Does it bother you?"
• (Jamie Foxx) "Not anymore."

• (Jamie Foxx) "What are you doing, Reynolds. Why are you here, your DVD player broken?"

• (Jamie Foxx) "It's not what you know. It's what you can prove in court."

• (Jamie Foxx) "Hey, wait, you're gonna take that? After all the grief you've given me over cell phones?"
• (Annie Corley) "Well, that's one of the benefits of being a judge, Mr. Rice. I can -- pretty much do whatever I want."

• (Jamie Foxx) "what are you doing here?"
• (Richard Portnow) "Ames has no family someone should be here for him"
• (Jamie Foxx) "That's nice"
• (Josh Stewart) "what I did that night was wrong I should've never been there but I swear to God I didn't kill those people, the wrong man's dying"

• (Jamie Foxx) "All you're doing is destroying the memory of your daughter. And causing the same pain that you're suffering from."

• (Jamie Foxx) "I had to call his wife and tell her that her husband had been buried alive."
• (Gerard Butler) "Well, justice should be harsh Nick -- especially for those who denied it to others."

• (Jamie Foxx) "ask your questions one at a time"
• (Reporter) "So you'll be seeking the death penalty?"
• (Jamie Foxx) "For Rupert Ames we will be"
• (Reporter) "And for Darby?"
• (Jamie Foxx) "He has pleaded guilty to murder but his also a cooperating witness, rest assured the DA's office has committed all of its resources to ensure justice will be served"
• (Christian Stolte) "I just want to say thank you for being in my corner, it's nice when the system works"
• (Jamie Foxx) "get away from me"

Christian Stolte as Clarence Darby

• (Christian Stolte) "Can't fight fate."

Colm Meaney as Detective Dunnigan

• (SWAT Troop #1) "Don't touch anything"
• (Colm Meaney) "That wasn't one of my first instincts"

• (Colm Meaney) "Where's the specialist team?"
• (SWAT Troop #1) "Round the corner. It's approaching soft."
• (Colm Meaney) "Where's the bomb disposal unit?"
• (SWAT Troop #1) "You're looking at it."

• (Colm Meaney) "Good news counselor, we found Darby -- I gotta say though, he's looked better."

Annie Corley as Judge Laura Burch

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