L.A. Confidential Quotes
[ Stocking a box with liquor for the police's Christmas party ]
Liquor Store Owner : If I ever get held up, you guys better be here.
Liquor Store Owner : If I ever get held up, you guys better be here.
Movie: L.A. Confidential
Ray Pinker : Bud White - what brings *you* to the basement?
Bud White : I got a couple Nite Owl questions.
Ray Pinker : I don't know if you'd read the papers, but that case is closed.
Bud White : Is there anything bothering you about it, Ray?
Ray Pinker : Yeah, the fact that the pack-up boys haven't carted this shit out of here yet. [ Bud sees all the boxes of case files, and starts to look through the crime scene photos ]
Ray Pinker : I got three shotguns, taken from the suspects, that match the strike marks on the shells from the Nite Owl. What more do you want?
Bud White : [ suddenly spotting a detail in a photo ] There's blood on the wall here. I thought everybody but the cook got shot in the men's room?
Ray Pinker : That is Stensland's blood.
Bud White : Stensland?
Ray Pinker : He took a blow to the head. Was probably unconscious when they dragged him in the john.
Bud White : Did they hit anybody else?
Ray Pinker : No. But he was a cop, he probably tried to "do something."
Bud White : [ remembering that Stensland said he had a date that night, he studies a photo showing a table with two settings, including a coffee mug smudged with lipstick ] Grilled cheese, black coffee... two of the victims were women, right?
Ray Pinker : Yeah - Patti DeLuca, the night-shift waitress, and a Susan Lefferts.
Bud White : Susan Lefferts...
Ray Pinker : Yeah, what about her? [ Bud runs out of the room ]
Ray Pinker : You're welcome!
Bud White : I got a couple Nite Owl questions.
Ray Pinker : I don't know if you'd read the papers, but that case is closed.
Bud White : Is there anything bothering you about it, Ray?
Ray Pinker : Yeah, the fact that the pack-up boys haven't carted this shit out of here yet. [ Bud sees all the boxes of case files, and starts to look through the crime scene photos ]
Ray Pinker : I got three shotguns, taken from the suspects, that match the strike marks on the shells from the Nite Owl. What more do you want?
Bud White : [ suddenly spotting a detail in a photo ] There's blood on the wall here. I thought everybody but the cook got shot in the men's room?
Ray Pinker : That is Stensland's blood.
Bud White : Stensland?
Ray Pinker : He took a blow to the head. Was probably unconscious when they dragged him in the john.
Bud White : Did they hit anybody else?
Ray Pinker : No. But he was a cop, he probably tried to "do something."
Bud White : [ remembering that Stensland said he had a date that night, he studies a photo showing a table with two settings, including a coffee mug smudged with lipstick ] Grilled cheese, black coffee... two of the victims were women, right?
Ray Pinker : Yeah - Patti DeLuca, the night-shift waitress, and a Susan Lefferts.
Bud White : Susan Lefferts...
Ray Pinker : Yeah, what about her? [ Bud runs out of the room ]
Ray Pinker : You're welcome!
Movie: L.A. Confidential
[ lying in bed, Lynn touches a scar on Bud's shoulder ]
Lynn Bracken : Where'd this come from?
Bud White : When I was twelve, my old man went after my mother with a bottle. I got in the way.
Lynn Bracken : You saved her.
Bud White : ...Not for long.
Lynn Bracken : I'm sorry, Bud, it's none of my...
Bud White : He tied me to the radiator. I watched him beat my mother to death with a tire iron. Then he left us there. Three days before a truant officer found us... They never found the old man.
Lynn Bracken : Was that why you became a cop? To get even?
Bud White : ...Maybe.
Lynn Bracken : Where'd this come from?
Bud White : When I was twelve, my old man went after my mother with a bottle. I got in the way.
Lynn Bracken : You saved her.
Bud White : ...Not for long.
Lynn Bracken : I'm sorry, Bud, it's none of my...
Bud White : He tied me to the radiator. I watched him beat my mother to death with a tire iron. Then he left us there. Three days before a truant officer found us... They never found the old man.
Lynn Bracken : Was that why you became a cop? To get even?
Bud White : ...Maybe.
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Bud White : Something's wrong with the Nite Owl. I know it in here, [ points to his chest ]
Bud White : I know it. That prick Exley shot the wrong guys. Whoever killed my partner, is still out there. I... If I could work cases like a real detective, I could prove it. But I'm not smart enough. I'm just the guy they bring in to scare the other guy shitless.
Lynn Bracken : You're wrong. You found Patchett, you found me. You're smart enough.
Bud White : I know it. That prick Exley shot the wrong guys. Whoever killed my partner, is still out there. I... If I could work cases like a real detective, I could prove it. But I'm not smart enough. I'm just the guy they bring in to scare the other guy shitless.
Lynn Bracken : You're wrong. You found Patchett, you found me. You're smart enough.
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[ to Lynn ]
Bud White : Don't ever try to fucking bribe me or I'll have you and Patchett in shit up to your ears.
Bud White : Don't ever try to fucking bribe me or I'll have you and Patchett in shit up to your ears.
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Captain Dudley Smith : [ interrogation at the Victory Motel ] Reciprocity, Mr. Hudgens, is the key to every relationship.
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Lynn Bracken : [ to Ed ] Fucking me and fucking Bud aren't the same thing, you know.
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Jack Vincennes : How's it hanging, Sid?
Sid Hudgens : Down around my ankles.
Sid Hudgens : Down around my ankles.
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Lynn Bracken : There's blood on your jacket. Is that an integral part of your job?
Bud White : Sometimes.
Lynn Bracken : Do you enjoy it?
Bud White : When they deserve it.
Lynn Bracken : Did they today?
Bud White : I don't know.
Lynn Bracken : But you did it anyway.
Bud White : Yeah, just like the half-dozen guys you screwed today.
Lynn Bracken : Well, actually, it was two.
Bud White : Sometimes.
Lynn Bracken : Do you enjoy it?
Bud White : When they deserve it.
Lynn Bracken : Did they today?
Bud White : I don't know.
Lynn Bracken : But you did it anyway.
Bud White : Yeah, just like the half-dozen guys you screwed today.
Lynn Bracken : Well, actually, it was two.
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Lynn Bracken : I was wondering when you'd knock on my door again, Officer White.
Bud White : It's Bud.
Lynn Bracken : Bud...
Bud White : It's Bud.
Lynn Bracken : Bud...
Movie: L.A. Confidential