The Firm * Quotes

Avery Tolar: "You've got nothing to be suspicious about."
William DeVasher: "I get paid to be suspicious when I've got nothing to be suspicious about."

Avery Tolar: "How'd you find that out?"
William DeVasher: "What do you think I am around here, a fucking night watchman?"
Avery Tolar: "I get confused sometimes."
William DeVasher: "Well, don't."

Mitch: "I got mine, Wayne, you get the rest of them."
Wayne: "Get 'em with what? Overbilling, mail fraud? Oh, that's exciting."
Mitch: "It's not sexy, but it's got teeth! Ten thousand dollars and five years in prison. That's ten and five for each act. Have you really looked at that? You've got every partner in the firm on overbilling. There's two hundred fifty acts of documented mail fraud there. That's racketeering! That's minimum one thousand, two hundred fifty years in prison and half a million dollars in fines. That's more than you had on Capone."

Mitch: "Did I lose you?"
Abby: "You look tired."
Mitch: "Did I?"
Abby: "I've loved you all my life. Even before we met. Part of it wasn't even you. It was just a promise of you. But these last days... you kept your promise. How could you lose me?"

Mitch: "What led you to law school?"
Avery: "It's so far back I don't think I can remember."
Mitch: "Sure you can, Counsellor."
Avery: "I used to caddy for lawyers and their wives on summer weekends. I looked at those long tan legs and just knew I had to be a lawyer. The wives had long tan legs, too."

Royce McKnight: "He lied about his brother."
Avery Tolar: "Wouldn't you lie about having a felon in the family to get a job like this?"

"Hey Ray, wouldn't it be funny if I went to Harvard, you went to Jail and we both ended up surrounded by crooks."