True Believer Quotes

Eddie Dodd: [to Roger] You want to be a criminal defense attorney? Then know this going in... everybody's guilty. Everybody.

Movie: True Believer
Roger Baron: [Roger and Kitty are reading about Eddie taking Shu's case in newspaper] Edward J. Dodd, retained to defend Mr. Kim, has disclosed that a witness will corroborate Mr. Kim's alibi...
Eddie Dodd: I embellished.
Kitty Greer: Dodd also reports that his *team* of private investigators...
Eddie Dodd: I embroidered.
Kitty Greer: ... are actually close to naming the man they believe actually killed Jimmy Chin.
Kitty Greer: I lied.

Movie: True Believer
Roger Baron: [after Eddie was beaten up by ex-Aryan Army member] I can't believe we're going to see a bunch of Nazis... at night!
Eddie Dodd: There's no one else to talk to! The tattoos are phony!
Roger Baron: So?
Eddie Dodd: So, no upstanding member of the Aryan Army would paint them on. They take those teardrops very seriously. They're badges of honor, of courage! Only their most vicious, sadistic, cruel killer elite get to wear them!
Roger Baron: I feel *much* better now.

Movie: True Believer
Roger Baron: [after Shu's mother has engaged Eddie's services, repeating her words] "Thank you for helping my son."
Eddie Dodd: Hey, Attila the Hun had a mother, okay?

Movie: True Believer