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L.A. Confidential Quotes

"Everything is suspect... Everyone is for sale... And nothing is what it seems."

R 1997 · 2h 18m
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L.A. Confidential
Truth Over Deception in L.A. Confidential
Detective Do you think you can talk your way out of this, Lieutenant?
Ed No... but I think I can tell the truth.
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L.A. Confidential
Power Struggles in Police Interrogation
Loew Unless you're here to wipe my ass, I believe we're through.
Loew C'mon, don't pull that good-cop bad-cop crap. I practically invented it. So what if some homo actor is dead, huh? Boys, girls, ten of them get off the bus to L.A. every day-
Loew Pull him off me, Exley!
Exley I don't know how.
[calmly]
White Now I know you think you're D.A. number one hot-shot, but here's the juice: if I take you out, ten more lawyers will take your place tomorrow. They just won't come on the bus, that's all.
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L.A. Confidential
A Final Question Before Death
Captain Dudley Smith (to a person he has just fatally shot) Have you a valediction, boyo?
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L.A. Confidential
A Reluctant Perspective on Ambition
Captain Dudley Smith (after Bud sees pictures of Ed with Lynn) I wouldn't trade places with Edmund Exley right now for all the whiskey in ].
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L.A. Confidential
City of Angels and Missing Wings
Captain Dudley Smith Go back to Jersey, sonny. This is the city of the angels and you haven't got any wings.
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L.A. Confidential
Demand for Complete Cooperation
Captain Dudley Smith Wendell, I'd like full and docile co-operation on every topic...
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L.A. Confidential
Consequences of Childhood Trauma
Lynn Where'd this come from?
Bud When I was twelve, my old man went after my mother with a bottle. I got in the way.
Lynn So you saved her.
Bud Not for long.
Lynn I'm sorry, it's none of my business.
Bud He tied me to the radiator. I watched him beat my mother to death with a tire iron. And he left me there. Three days before a truant officer found us. They never found the old man.
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L.A. Confidential
A Gripping Crime Saga and Mystery Thriller
Taglines It's a crime saga that will shock you. It's a mystery that will keep you guessing. It's a thriller that will keep you riveted.
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L.A. Confidential
Discussion of a rat's size
Hilda Lefferts Was it a rat?
Bud White Yeah. A great big one.
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The Challenge of Doing the Right Thing
Captain Dudley Smith Don't start trying to do the right thing, boyo. You haven't had the practice.
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The Cost of Ambition in Law Enforcement
Captain Dudley Smith You may well reap the benefit, Edmund, but are you truly prepared to be despised within the department?
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The Quest for Justice and Redemption
Jack Why in the world do you want to go digging any deeper into the Nite Owl Killings, Lieutenant?
Ed Rollo Tomasi.
Jack Is there more to that, or am I supposed to guess?
Ed Rollo… was a purse snatcher. My father ran into him off duty, and he shot my father six times and got away clean. No one even knew who he was. I just made the name up to give him some personality. Rollo Tomasi's the reason I became a cop. I wanted to catch the guys who thought they could get away with it. It was supposed to be about justice. Then somewhere along the way I lost sight of that. Why'd you become a cop?
Jack I don't remember.
[long pause]
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L.A. Confidential
Tension Between Law and Underworld Characters
Johnny You want an autograph? Write to MGM.
Ed Since when do two-bit hoods and hookers give out autographs?
Johnny What'd you say to me?
Ed LAPD. Sit down.
Woman Who in the hell do you think you are?
Jack Ed...
Ed Take a walk, honey, before I haul your ass downtown.
Johnny You are making a large mistake.
Woman Get away from our table.
Ed Shut up! A hooker cut to look like ] is still a hooker.
[leans in; [w:Lana Turner|Lana Turner]
Johnny Hey!
Ed She just looks like Lana Turner.
Jack She is Lana Turner.
[grinning]
Ed What?
Jack She is Lana Turner.
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Confrontation Over Domestic Violence
Wife-beater Who in the hell are you?!
Wendell "Bud" White Ghost of Christmas Past. Why don't you dance with a man for a change?
Wife-beater What are you, some kind of smart ass?
Wendell "Bud" White You'll be out in a year and a half. I'll get cozy with your parole officer. You touch her again, I'll have you violated on a kiddie raper beef. You know what they do to kiddie-rapers in ].
[grabs wife beater by the head; [w:San Quentin State Prison|Quentin]
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L.A. Confidential
Ethics of Evidence in Law Enforcement
Capt. Dudley Smith Would you be willing to plant corroborative evidence on a suspect you knew to be guilty, in order to ensure an indictment?
Sgt. Ed Exley Dudley, we've been over this.
Capt. Dudley Smith Yes or no, Edmund?
Sgt. Ed Exley No.
Capt. Dudley Smith Would you be willing to beat a confession out of a suspect you knew to be guilty?
Sgt. Ed Exley No.
Capt. Dudley Smith Would you be willing to shoot a hardened criminal in the back, in order to offset the chance that some...lawyer...
Sgt. Ed Exley No.
Capt. Dudley Smith Then, for the love of God, don't be a detective. Stick to assignments where you don't have to make those kinds of choices.
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Uncovering Past Investigations in Law Enforcement
Jack Do you remember Buzz Meeks, Dudley?
Capt. Dudley Smith A disgrace as a police officer. Straight-D fitness reports from every CEO he ever served under. What about him?
Jack 12 years ago he was on a Vice rouse with Dick Stensland. They questioned Pierce Patchett about a blackmail scam. Patchett had Sid Hudgens photographing prominent businessmen with hookers. Anyway, charges were dropped, insufficient evidence. You were the supervising officer on that case and I was wondering if you remember anything about it.
Capt. Dudley Smith What's this all about, boyo?
Jack Part of it has to do with a murder, I've been working with Ed Exley on it.
Capt. Dudley Smith You're in Narco, Jack, not Homicide. Since when do you work with Edmund Exley?
Jack Well, it's a private investigation. I messed something up. I'm trying to make amends.
Capt. Dudley Smith Don't start trying to do the right thing, boyo. You haven't had the practice. Buzz Meeks and Dick Stensland. So, uh, what does Exley make of all of this?
[He turns to the stove and prepares a cup of tea for Jack]
Jack I haven't told him yet. I just came straight from the record to you.
[Dudley suddenly turns to Jack with a pistol and shoots him once in the chest; a shocked Jack struggles to breathe as he looks up at Dudley]
Capt. Dudley Smith Have you a valediction, boyo?
Jack Rollo... Tomasi.
[in a strained whisper, on the verge of death]
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Tension between characters escalates in confrontation
Man Everything all right, doll? Want me to get rid of him?
Bud Hit the road, pal.
Man Maybe I will. Maybe I won't.
[stepping closer]
Bud LAPD, shitbird. Get the fuck outta here or I'll call your wife to come get you.
[showing his badge]
Man Officer.
[nods]
Bud Councilman.
[nods]
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L.A. Confidential
The Weight of Assumptions in Justice
Edmund "Ed" Exley (At the end of an interrogation session) You know, I'm talking about the gas chamber, and you haven't even asked me what this is about. You've got a big "Guilty" sign around your neck.
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L.A. Confidential
Suspicion and Deception in Society
Taglines Everything is suspect...everyone is for sale...and nothing is what it seems.
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L.A. Confidential
Seeing the Unmasked Truth in Bud
Lynn It would be easier for you if there was an angle wouldn't it? You're afraid of Bud because you can't figure out how to play him. He doesn't follow the same rules of politics as you do. It makes him dangerous. I see Bud because I want to. I see Bud because he can't hide the good inside of him. I see Bud because he makes me feel like Lynn Bracken and not some ] look-alike who fucks for money. I see Bud because he doesn't know how to disguise who he is. I see Bud for all the ways he's different from you.
[[w:Veronica Lake|Veronica Lake]
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A Son's Desire for His Father's Approval
Ed All I ever wanted was to measure up to my father.
Bud Here's your chance. He died in the line of duty, didn't he?
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Secrets and Discretion in L.A. Confidential
Taglines Off the record, on the QT, and very hush-hush...
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