Reversal of Fortune Quotes

Reversal of Fortune is a television show that was first aired in 1970 . Reversal of Fortune completed its run in 1970.

It features Edward R. Pressman; Oliver Stone as producer, Mark Isham in charge of musical score, and Luciano Tovoli as head of cinematography.

Reversal of Fortune is recorded in English and originally aired in United States. Each episode of Reversal of Fortune is 111 minutes long. Reversal of Fortune is distributed by Warner Bros. (United States) Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (Worldwide).

The cast includes: Ron Silver as Alan Dershowitz, Jeremy Irons as Claus von Bülow, Glenn Close as Sunny von Bülow, Stephen Mailer as Elon Dershowitz, Annabella Sciorra as Raj, Felicity Huffman as Minnie, Annabella Sciorra as Sarah, and Fisher Stevens as David Marriott.

Reversal of Fortune Quotes

Ron Silver as Alan Dershowitz

• (Ron Silver) "This is the most dangerous case I have ever worked on."
• (Jeremy Irons) "You find that exhilarating?"
• (Ron Silver) "No, I do not. I am breaking every rule. 'Cause the best way to win is to proclaim your innocence, and I have never done that for anybody. And the problem I got is, I see who you are. You'd do anything to win."
• (Jeremy Irons) "So would you."
• (Ron Silver) "Yeah, but you don't trust the legal system."
• (Jeremy Irons) "You're saying I'd manufacture -- witnesses? Affidavits?"
• (Ron Silver) "No. But you would sacrifice me."
• (Jeremy Irons) "Oh, please."
• (Ron Silver) "See, the more I believe that you are innocent, the more nervous I am. I go out on a limb for you, you're proven guilty, I look like an asshole. My reputation, my credibility, my career, destroyed."
• (Jeremy Irons) "That's the risk you're taking, isn't it?"
• (Ron Silver) "Well, f*** you, f*** you, man -- I'm glad we understand one another."

• (Ron Silver) "Claus, let me explain something to you: the less you tell me, the more options I have."

• (Ron Silver) "You do have one thing in your favor: everybody hates you."
• (Jeremy Irons) "Well, that's a start."

• (Ron Silver) "Claus, did you hear what I just said?"
• (Jeremy Irons) "Of course I did. Did you hear the judge sentence me?"
• (Ron Silver) "Uh, yeah, thirty years, that's tough."
• (Jeremy Irons) "Twice trying to murder one's wife? Anything less would be monstrous."

• (Ron Silver) "A priest? Well, a priest is the ideal witness: it's like getting the word of God."
• (Jeremy Irons) "I checked. God is unavailable."

• (Ron Silver) "If the rules don't work, you change them."

• (Ron Silver) "Our new evidence will clearly indicate --"
• (Judge) "Professor, you know there isn't a single case which allows you to introduce new evidence on appeal."
• (Ron Silver) "Well, there is one, your honor, and you wrote it. Derrick. In Derrick, in Derrick, you yourself said that a case based on circumstantial theory rather than fact only stands up if no other theory makes sense. The only way to show a better theory is to present it."

• (Ron Silver) "I gather that the older children denied that Sunny had a problem with pills and alcohol?"
• (Jeremy Irons) "A spectacular understatement."

• (Ron Silver) "You are a very strange man."
• (Jeremy Irons) "You have no idea."

• (Ron Silver) "All right, my friend --"
• (Jeremy Irons) ""Friend"? I like that."
• (Ron Silver) "Nothing personal."

• (Ron Silver) "We've got two big problems here. The case against him is very strong but more importantly is the absolute certainty that Claus is guilty, finding grounds for reversal won't be enough here. Judges on the Rhode Island Supreme Court will have to go home to their wives and explain to them why they reversed. To do that we have to totally obliterate the States case so that they have no other reason to affirm. Total victory or we are dead in the water. Now, I assumed you've all had a chance to go over the transcripts and materials, first impressions?"
• (Ron Silver) "Yeah, Minnie."
• (Felicity Huffman) "I think this whole case stinks. I think Von Bulow stinks. He's obviously guilty of something pretty despicable and if we free him we become his accessories, accomplices after the fact. I'm really shocked with your reputation for defending the poor and oppressed that you've taken this case."
• (Felicity Huffman) "I won't have anything to do with it, and I hope my fellow students won't either."
• (Ron Silver) "Can I exercise my first ammendment right to free speech? If lawyers only defended innocent clients there would only be 12 defense attorneys and none of you would be able to find a job."
• (Felicity Huffman) "Why help guilty people get off?"
• (Ron Silver) "Oh you're sure he's guilty, 100% sure?"
• (Felicity Huffman) "He had a lawyer. He had a trial. He was convicted."
• (Ron Silver) "Are you sure he had a fair trial?"
• (Felicity Huffman) "Come on."
• (Ron Silver) "It's the basis of the whole legal system. Everyone gets a defense. So the system is there for the innocent person falsely accused. Ok, say it's you Ok?"
• (Ron Silver) "You decide you're gonna get a divorce, you're gonna divorce your husband. A week later you're accused of child abuse."
• (Ron Silver) "Oh, no don't give me that people do it all the time. Suddenly you're alone it's a disaster. Everyone thinks that you are guilty. Even the mailman is looking at you a little funny. There's only one person who can help you. There's only one person who you can trust, your lawyer."
• (Felicity Huffman) "Yeah, ok, so someone has to defend Claus. But why you, why us?"
• (Ron Silver) "Look, you're my student, you, you have a choice. You don't have to do anything you don't want to do; that is your choice. The reason I take cases and here unlike most other lawyers, who are not professors and therefore have to make a living: I take cases because I get pissed off, and I am pissed off here. The family hired a private prosecutor: unacceptable. They conducted a private search. Now if we let them get away with that, rich people won't go to the cops any more. You know what they're going to do? They're going to get their own lawyers to collect evidence, and then they are going to choose which evidence they feel like passing on to the DA. And the next victim isn't going to be rich, like Von Bülow but it's going to be some poor schnook in Detroit who can't afford, or who can't find, a decent lawyer. I think it's a little more complicated than your simple moral superiority, hmm?"

• (Ron Silver) "Reminds me of my Hitler dream. You know, Hitler calls up, he's alive -- needs a lawyer. I say, "Sure, come on over." Then I have to decide: do I take the case, or do I kill him?"
• (Stephen Mailer) "You? No question."
• (Ron Silver) "I would take the case."
• (Stephen Mailer) "THEN kill him."

• (Ron Silver) "Why; why do you think this case fascinates people? 'Cause, one time or other, every man is driven crazy by his wife, and in his secret heart, he wants to do exactly what Claus is accused of: kill her in some sly, silent way that can't be detected. Claus is a scapegoat: someone has to suffer for the sin that we all want to commit."
• (Team member) "Alan -- that's ridiculous."
• (Ron Silver) "It's ridiculous, you're right."

Glenn Close as Sunny von Bülow

• (Glenn Close) "I never woke from this coma, and I never will. I am what doctors call "persistent vegetative"; a vegetable. According to medical experts, I could stay like this for a very long time; brain dead, body better than ever."

• (Glenn Close) "I'm thinking of redecorating this whole f***ing house."

• (Glenn Close) "You marry me for my money, then you want to work. You're the prince of perversion."

• (Glenn Close) "Looking at him now, the issue seems simple: is he the Devil? If so, can the Devil get justice?"

• (Glenn Close) "Say something. Do something. Be a man. I already have a butler."

• (Glenn Close) "Well, just because she had all the money before I had all the money does not mean she is my lord and master."
• (Jeremy Irons) "'Course not. I am your lord and master."
• (Jeremy Irons) "Just kidding."

Jeremy Irons as Claus von Bülow

• (Jeremy Irons) "There's a big difference between knowing about an affair, and have love letters crammed down your throat."

• (Jeremy Irons) "Professor Dershowitz, how good of you to come."

• (Jeremy Irons) "Oh, I've been meaning to mention. Our understanding about -- my extracurricular activities --"
• (Glenn Close) "Mmm?"
• (Jeremy Irons) "I've been involved with someone who -- falls outside the parameters of our agreement."

• (Jeremy Irons) "How; ah, my prawns; how do you define a fear of insulin?"
• (Jeremy Irons) "Claus-traphobia."

• (Jeremy Irons) "Well, so much for the first coma. The second, of course, was much more theatrical."
• (Ron Silver) "Theatrical? What is this, a f***ing game? This is life and death; your wife is lying in a coma. You, you don't even make a pretense of caring, do you?"
• (Jeremy Irons) "'Course I care, Alan. It's just, I don't wear my heart on my sleeve."

• (Jeremy Irons) "Oh, come on, Sunny, your father worked. Do you want the children to grow up thinking a male's place is in a deck chair?"
• (Glenn Close) "Claus, you marry me for my money then you demand to work. You're the prince of perversion."

• (Pharmacist) "Anything else?"
• (Jeremy Irons) "Yes, a vial of insulin -- Just kidding."

Annabella Sciorra as Raj

• (Annabella Sciorra) "He had a gorgeous mistress and he went with an ugly whore?"
• (Annabella Sciorra) "You know, there are some things even mistresses won't do."
• (Ron Silver) "Like what?"
• (Annabella Sciorra) "I am not telling."

• (Annabella Sciorra) "I think it's easier to love somebody than to live with them. Love is fantasy; living is work."
• (Ron Silver) "I'll say. And those people don't like to work."
• (Annabella Sciorra) "But if you don't do the work, the love dies and nobody wants to deal with that one."

• (Annabella Sciorra) "A frame-up doesn't mean he's innocent. The kids could have framed a guilty man."

• (Annabella Sciorra) "I agree von Bülow is guilty, but then, that's the fun; that's the challenge."
• (Ron Silver) "Now THERE is a lawyer."

Felicity Huffman as Minnie

• (Felicity Huffman) "He says he doesn't have anything that'd help us."
• (Ron Silver) "You with me?"
• (Annabella Sciorra) "Paydirt."
• (Annabella Sciorra) "What's paydirt?"
• (Ron Silver) "He's a lawyer. If he really didn't have anything, he'd give it to us. But there's something there, and he's going to fight like hell to hold onto it."

• (Felicity Huffman) "Yeah, okay, so, someone's got to defend Claus. But why you, why us?"
• (Ron Silver) "Look, you're my student, you, you have a choice. You don't have to do anything you don't want to do; that is your choice. The reason I take cases; and here I'm unlike most other lawyers, who are not professors and therefore have to make a living; I take cases because I get pissed off. And I am pissed off here. The family hired a private prosecutor: unacceptable. They conducted a private search. Now if we let them get away with that, rich people won't go to the cops any more. You know what they're going to do? They're going to get their own lawyers to collect evidence; and then they are going to choose which evidence they feel like passing on to the DA. And the next victim isn't going to be rich, like von Bülow; but it's going to be some poor schnook in Detroit who can't afford, or who can't find, a decent lawyer."

Fisher Stevens as David Marriott

• (Fisher Stevens) "Hey."
• (Fisher Stevens) "You think I'm scum, don't you? Blow-it-out-your-ass. You want to find a witness to back me up? I'll get one. And, hey, maybe I'll see you at the Celtics, huh?"

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