Homicide - Life on the Street Quotes
Pembleton: You one of those toilet intellectuals? You need a little something to read to keep you r-r-regular?
TV Show: Homicide - Life on the Street
Pennsylvania Police Officer: Regulations stipulate that a policewoman escort a female prisoner.
Lewis: [motioning to Kellerman] Meet Det. Michelle Kellerman.
Kellerman: Hi.
Pennsylvania Police Officer: You're not a woman.
Kellerman: But I used to be.
Lewis: [motioning to Kellerman] Meet Det. Michelle Kellerman.
Kellerman: Hi.
Pennsylvania Police Officer: You're not a woman.
Kellerman: But I used to be.
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Munch: Let me explain.
Howard: No, let me explain. My personal life is off limits to the squad room, alright? I learned my lesson when I was dating Ed Danvers and you were the biggest sinner. Jokes, gossip....
Munch: I can't disagree with you Kay. But that was the old me, the new me....
Howard: Is worse. Look, Munch, I know you may find this hard to accept, but I believe in secrets. I believe that we have to have truths about ourselves that we keep from our collegues, our neighbors, our loved ones. I don't want any one person to know everything about me. I want you to have a few pieces of the puzzle, Gee, a few pieces, my sister, see?
Munch: Kay, everyday all we do is ferret out secrets. It's our job.
Howard: Not today, Munchkin.
Howard: No, let me explain. My personal life is off limits to the squad room, alright? I learned my lesson when I was dating Ed Danvers and you were the biggest sinner. Jokes, gossip....
Munch: I can't disagree with you Kay. But that was the old me, the new me....
Howard: Is worse. Look, Munch, I know you may find this hard to accept, but I believe in secrets. I believe that we have to have truths about ourselves that we keep from our collegues, our neighbors, our loved ones. I don't want any one person to know everything about me. I want you to have a few pieces of the puzzle, Gee, a few pieces, my sister, see?
Munch: Kay, everyday all we do is ferret out secrets. It's our job.
Howard: Not today, Munchkin.
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Pembleton: Why do people choose cloth seats? Look how they absorb stains. Leather's the way to go for precisely this reason.
Bayliss: I agree.
Bayliss: I agree.
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Pembleton: You want glory, go work at ER. Homicide's fine by me.
TV Show: Homicide - Life on the Street
Landlord: I should've never let MC talk me out of the cleaning deposit. Said he was anal retentive about dirt. I thought that was a good quality in a tenant.
Pembleton: Law abiding is better.
Pembleton: Law abiding is better.
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Bayliss: Frank, I work with you, not for you.
Pembleton: Excuse me?
Bayliss: You never say please, you never say thank you.
Pembleton: Please don't be an idiot. Thank you.
Pembleton: Excuse me?
Bayliss: You never say please, you never say thank you.
Pembleton: Please don't be an idiot. Thank you.
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Russert: So you prefer quantity to quality.
Munch: All junkies do.
Munch: All junkies do.
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Bayliss: If your husband was sentenced to death, why would you kill yourself and orphan your son?
Pembleton: Well Tim, you're the primary in this quickly deepening quagmire, I'll leave that question for you to answer.
Bayliss: Thanks. Hope you get polyps.
Pembleton: Well Tim, you're the primary in this quickly deepening quagmire, I'll leave that question for you to answer.
Bayliss: Thanks. Hope you get polyps.
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Col. Rausch: It's time for the mongrels of the world to stop taking advantage of the hard work and good faith most Americans have. You have a cancer, you cut it out. Because make no mistake about it gentlemen, these people are a cancer and they will drag us down with them. You sleep easier at night because of me, and you don't even know it.
Pembleton: Let me tell you what's gonna happen. Because you are mine now. I'm gonna put you on display. You and I are gonna be on tv, radio, for months and months and months. So others can see how much they like you and what you stand for, even if they don't know it yet. You will not make me a martyr because I'm an African American. You will be my martyr.
Pembleton: Let me tell you what's gonna happen. Because you are mine now. I'm gonna put you on display. You and I are gonna be on tv, radio, for months and months and months. So others can see how much they like you and what you stand for, even if they don't know it yet. You will not make me a martyr because I'm an African American. You will be my martyr.
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Col. Rausch: Haven't you any appreciation for what I've done? Even on an intellectual level? Because let me tell you something, my serious friend, the power of the vote is a romantic anachronism.
Pembleton: No, my friend. You are.
Pembleton: No, my friend. You are.
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Kincaid: How's Rausch?
Pembleton: Doc checked him and he's fine. And in his cell where he's gonna stay.
Kincaid: You're that confident that you'll win?
Pembleton: I'm sure of it. I bribed the judge. I told her Bayliss would have sex with her for a favorable ruling.
Kincaid: You two-timing pig.
Bayliss: Well, she was naked underneath those black robes.
Pembleton: Doc checked him and he's fine. And in his cell where he's gonna stay.
Kincaid: You're that confident that you'll win?
Pembleton: I'm sure of it. I bribed the judge. I told her Bayliss would have sex with her for a favorable ruling.
Kincaid: You two-timing pig.
Bayliss: Well, she was naked underneath those black robes.
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Lewis: Hey, look. It's Mr. Sunshine!
Pembleton: Oh, no, no, no. I'm tired of being the only one around here who gives a damn. You're looking at the new Frank Pembleton. Budding Republican and practicing selfish bastard. Savior of no one but himself. Shot of Gold Natty Bo. This is the new me!
Russert: One day you're gonna run for office and rue those words.
Pembleton: Oh, no, no, no. I'm tired of being the only one around here who gives a damn. You're looking at the new Frank Pembleton. Budding Republican and practicing selfish bastard. Savior of no one but himself. Shot of Gold Natty Bo. This is the new me!
Russert: One day you're gonna run for office and rue those words.
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Bayliss: You always do this to me, nobody else, just me. Just your partner.
Pembleton: You ordered...a meatball hero?
Bayliss: Grilled cheese.
Pembleton: Oh, that's it.
Bayliss: That's what? What's wrong with a grilled cheese sandwich?
Pembleton: It's so... you know... white boy.
Bayliss: White boy?
Pembleton: Yeah, it's such a non-statement. White bread, American cheese, you know?
Bayliss: This isn't about the sandwich Frank, this is about you and me.
Pembleton: No, it's the sandwich.
Bayliss: You know, you're starting to display passive-agressive tendencies. You're trying to tell me something by not bringing me lunch.
Pembleton: No. It's the sandwich.
Bayliss: Gimme my money back. I want my money back.
Pembleton: You have to wait for change.
Pembleton: You ordered...a meatball hero?
Bayliss: Grilled cheese.
Pembleton: Oh, that's it.
Bayliss: That's what? What's wrong with a grilled cheese sandwich?
Pembleton: It's so... you know... white boy.
Bayliss: White boy?
Pembleton: Yeah, it's such a non-statement. White bread, American cheese, you know?
Bayliss: This isn't about the sandwich Frank, this is about you and me.
Pembleton: No, it's the sandwich.
Bayliss: You know, you're starting to display passive-agressive tendencies. You're trying to tell me something by not bringing me lunch.
Pembleton: No. It's the sandwich.
Bayliss: Gimme my money back. I want my money back.
Pembleton: You have to wait for change.
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Pembleton: Where's your mustache?
Brodie: Oh, I'm trying a new look right now.
Pembleton: Well, stop trying.
Brodie: Oh, I'm trying a new look right now.
Pembleton: Well, stop trying.
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Bayliss: I can't stop seeing her face. Adena Watson's face in the rain. Wounds on her body. She was so tiny. I try not to care, but if I do that, if I actually stop caring, then I stop being who I am. No job's worth that.
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Bayliss: Those guys are like a family. I have never, ever felt that in Homicide. We may be the best, the elite, but we are not a family.
Pembleton: Yes we are. But we're like a real family. Opinionated, argumentative, holding grudges, challenging each other. We push each other to be better than we are. That kind of thing doesn't happen at barbecues or ball games. It happens on the job where it's supposed to. Putting down a murder. The work itself is the most important thing. What we do is important. We speak for those who can no longer speak for themselves and you're not gonna ever find anything like that anywhere, not in LA, or patrolling the grounds at Disneyland.
Pembleton: Yes we are. But we're like a real family. Opinionated, argumentative, holding grudges, challenging each other. We push each other to be better than we are. That kind of thing doesn't happen at barbecues or ball games. It happens on the job where it's supposed to. Putting down a murder. The work itself is the most important thing. What we do is important. We speak for those who can no longer speak for themselves and you're not gonna ever find anything like that anywhere, not in LA, or patrolling the grounds at Disneyland.
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Kellerman: You don't think much of me, do you?
Munch: Actually, I have no opinion of you one way or another. You have yet to appear on my radar screen.
Munch: Actually, I have no opinion of you one way or another. You have yet to appear on my radar screen.
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Gee: You've been yelling a lot lately. At the drop of a hat, you start screaming.
Pembleton: Why would I yell if someone dropped their hat?
Pembleton: Why would I yell if someone dropped their hat?
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Bayliss: This isn't about me, Frank. It's about Adena. It's about avenging Adena Watson's murder.
Pembleton: No. It's about you. It's always been about you. Do you think I don't know you?
Pembleton: No. It's about you. It's always been about you. Do you think I don't know you?
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Bayliss: Don't you see, Frank? The killer beat me. He beat me. Dooley, Tucker, whoever he is, he beat me. It was my first case Frank, my first case. I hadn't even started to be a Homicide Detective yet, and he beat me. I put everything I had into that case and it wasn't enough. I let myself care about this case and if he walks out of here, it'll all have been for nothing. It's all over.
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Pembleton: Why are you wearing that carnation?
Bayliss: I have been wearing this for 2 days and you're just asking about it now?
Pembleton: I've had other things on my mind. So what's it for?
Bayliss: To hide the smell... To hide the smell of death.
Pembleton: To hide the smell of death?
Bayliss: Yeah, you got a problem with that?
Pembleton: No, no problem.
Bayliss: I have been wearing this for 2 days and you're just asking about it now?
Pembleton: I've had other things on my mind. So what's it for?
Bayliss: To hide the smell... To hide the smell of death.
Pembleton: To hide the smell of death?
Bayliss: Yeah, you got a problem with that?
Pembleton: No, no problem.
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Bayliss: I didn't avenge Adena Watson's death. Now I never will. Never gonna know who killed her. I let her down, Gee.
Gee: You're gonna hafta make your peace with that.
Bayliss: Let me ask you something, Gee. How do you know when to stop caring?
Gee: I've been a cop a long time. I can tell you how to sweet talk a confession out of a stone cold killer, sidestep the politics of me and the bosses. I can tell you how to work a case until there's nothing left to be done but to file the paperwork. But the one thing I can't tell you, is when to stop caring.
Gee: You're gonna hafta make your peace with that.
Bayliss: Let me ask you something, Gee. How do you know when to stop caring?
Gee: I've been a cop a long time. I can tell you how to sweet talk a confession out of a stone cold killer, sidestep the politics of me and the bosses. I can tell you how to work a case until there's nothing left to be done but to file the paperwork. But the one thing I can't tell you, is when to stop caring.
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Kellerman: You know, she is pretty hot.
Munch: Kay?
Kellerman: Yeah. I think it's the hair.
Munch: I don't wanna think about her hair. She's one of us. She's a detective.
Kellerman: She's a woman. You work around a woman all day, you notice her. It's human nature.
Munch: She's a sergeant for God's sake.
Munch: Kay?
Kellerman: Yeah. I think it's the hair.
Munch: I don't wanna think about her hair. She's one of us. She's a detective.
Kellerman: She's a woman. You work around a woman all day, you notice her. It's human nature.
Munch: She's a sergeant for God's sake.
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Muslim: [referring to Kellerman] How can you work with him?
Lewis: What? Who, him?
Muslim: He hates us; why do his bidding?
Lewis: Nah, he hates you. And most of the time, he does my bidding.
Lewis: What? Who, him?
Muslim: He hates us; why do his bidding?
Lewis: Nah, he hates you. And most of the time, he does my bidding.
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Munch: I got a call. Special guest at the Waterfront tonight. Wanna guess? The Big Man's coming back. Gonna need a lot of extra light beer tonight. . .
Bayliss: Oh, yeah!
Munch: Cuz you know who's coming back?
Pembleton: The Big Man!!
Bayliss: Oh, yeah!
Munch: Cuz you know who's coming back?
Pembleton: The Big Man!!
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Kellerman: Why is Bolander called the Big Man? He fat?
Munch: Granted, Stanley Bolander is far from svelte, but it's not mere bulk which has earned the Big Man his title. He has what some might call a Brogdignagian build. He is in all senses a man of magnitude. Enormously fair, tremendously honest, and a whale of a detective.
Munch: Granted, Stanley Bolander is far from svelte, but it's not mere bulk which has earned the Big Man his title. He has what some might call a Brogdignagian build. He is in all senses a man of magnitude. Enormously fair, tremendously honest, and a whale of a detective.
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Pembleton: Imagine Scheiner in a swimsuit.
Scheiner: I heard that.
Bayliss: You'll always be a beautiful swimmer to me, Dr. Scheiner.
Scheiner: I heard that.
Bayliss: You'll always be a beautiful swimmer to me, Dr. Scheiner.
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Pembleton: Don't touch that door. That's my door. Now you've pissed me off. You and I? We're never gonna be friends.
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