The Best The Lincoln Lawyer Quotes

Earl: You know what? You would've done all right on the streets.
Mick: Shit. Where do you think I am, Earl?

Mick: Do you know the difference between a Maserati and a Range Rover?
Reggie: One is small and one is big, I guess.

Gloria: Yeah, housewife of the year, that's me.

Eddie: How's it hanging, counselor?
Mick: A little to the left.

Frank: Jesus, Mick, are you starting to think Louis is innocent?
Mick: He just might. Besides, you know, my father always said about an innocent client.
Frank: No, I've never heard this. Hi...
Maggie: He said 'there's no client as scary as an innocent man'.
Mick: That's right. 'Cos if you screw up and he goes to prison... You're never gonna be able to live with yourself.

Earl: [Sung to the tune of "You're Nobody 'Til SomeBody Loves You," while picking Mick up from the hospital] You're nobody 'til somebody shoots you.

Frank: [looking out of top floor window] You're so vain. Nobody would care if you killed yourself.
Mick: It'd look cool. What do you think the last thing to go through your mind would be?
Frank: Your asshole.
Mick: Yeah.

Mick: [sitting on Maggie's front porch as Louis approaches him] Hello, Louis. My family's here.
Louis: I know.
Mick: You bring your knife? My gun?
Louis: Maybe.
Mick: Good.
[pulls his new gun out of his coat pocket]
Mick: 'Cause I brought this. You've got one chance to turn around and leave.
Louis: [stepping closer] And then what? You gonna keep coming back every night? Every day? Or just try to get me sent up to San Quentin like Jesus Martinez?
Mick: No. I'm not quitting until Martinez is free and you're convicted of murder. And when that needle goes in your arm, that will be me.
[nods]
Louis: [as a commuter train passes by in the background] Well, why don't you just shoot me right now?
Mick: I don't think I'll have to.
[looks out towards the street]
Louis: [turns around] Hey!
[Eddie Vogel and his biker gang pull up and start vandalizing Louis' car with baseball bats]
Louis: That's my car!
[a biker rides up from behind and hits Louis with a baseball bat, knocking him to the sidewalk]
Biker: It's Louis' car, man!
[the bikers continue vandalizing Louis' car as Mick gets up and walks to the street]
Biker: Come on, now. Get him up. Get up!
[another biker grabs Louis and drags him out into the middle of the street]
Mick: Hospital, not the morgue.
[Eddie gives Mick a two-finger salute as his posse beats up Louis and Mick walks away]

[last lines]
Mick: I tell you what Eddie, how about I do this one for free?
Eddie: [gestures at him and leaves]
Earl: Are you sure you're feeling all right?
Mick: Repeat customers, Earl. We'll stick it to 'em next time...

Mick: When do you retire, Lankford?
Detective: When do I retire?
Mick: Yeah.
Detective: Eighteen months. Why?
Mick: I wanna make sure I show up the next morning so I can kick your ass.

Eddie: [from trailer] Counsellor?
Mick: Eddie, we had a deal. Either you pay me, or go with a public defender.
Eddie: How 'bout five grand?
Mick: Ten.
[Eddie then hands Mick a brown envelope, presumably with money in it. Mick shakes the envelope]
Eddie: Ain't you gonna count it?
Mick: I just did.

Eddie: You really shoot your client's mother?
Mick: Damn right I did. She shot me first.

[Mick, armed with a baseball bat, discovers Louis has broken into his house]
Louis: [sitting casually in Mick's home office] If you're wondering how I got in, I'm in real estate, so if I want to get into a friend's house...
Mick: No, we're not friends. You're my client. And I'm your lawyer.
Louis: My lawyer. See, that's exactly what I wanted to remind you of. I'm about to go on trial, and yet I couldn't reach you. Now I find out where you were all day. Heard you tell Maggie.
Mick: You shit.
Louis: You went to see Jesus Martinez. And I know what you talked about: Donna Renteria. You're right, Mick. I killed her. There. No reason I shouldn't tell my own lawyer since it's all confidential. Attorney-client privilege. Isn't that what you told me?
Mick: It's time for you to go, Louis.
Louis: Alright.
[He sits up, finishes his drink, and stands up. He notices a framed picture of Mick & his daughter Hayley on Mick's desk]
Louis: [walks out into the living room] That's a cute picture of your daughter Hayley. She's very pretty. She's got soccer practice tomorrow, right?
Mick: [following Louis] Don't.
Louis: [pretending to be confused] Don't what?
Mick: [gets in Louis' face] You think you're the first client to threaten me and my family? Huh?
Louis: All I said was she's pretty.
Mick: Are you scared, Louis? Because where you are right now, you're in a very dangerous place.
[He opens the front door and Louis leaves]

Mick: [to the bikers beating up Louis] Hospital, not the morgue.

Mick: You know what my father always said about an innocent client?
Frank: [sarcastically] No, I've never heard this...

Detective: [to Haller in crowded elevator] How does someone like you sleep at night with all the scum you represent?

Mick: I checked the list of people I trust and your name ain't on it.

Mick: Maggie, you know what I used to be afraid of Maggie?
Maggie: Yeah, me.
Mick: That I wouldn't recognize innocence. That it would be right there in front of me and I just wouldn't see it.
Maggie: Yeah...
Mick: I'm not talking about guilty or not guilty; just, just innocence. Know what I'm afraid of now?
[Maggie shakes head]
Mick: Evil. Pure Evil.