Favorite L.A. Confidential Quotes
Some men get the world. Others get ex-hookers and a trip to Arizona.
Lynn Bracken
Go back to Jersey, Sonny. This is the City of the Angels and you haven't got any wings.
Dudley Smith
[interrogation] Reciprocity, Mr. Hudgens, is the key to every relationship.
Captain Dudley Smith
Off the record, on the QT, and very hush-hush.
Sid Hudgens
Jack Vincennes: What's that about?
Sid Hudgens: Eh, we ran a piece last year, "Ingenue Dykes in Hollywood." Her name got mentioned.
I wouldn't trade places with Edmund Exley right now for all the whisky in Ireland.
Captain Dudley Smith
Captain Dudley Smith: You'll do as I say, and ask no questions. Do you follow my drift?
Bud White: In technicolor, sir.
Ed Exley: Do you make the three Negroes for the Nite Owl Killings?
Jack Vincennes: What?
Ed Exley: It's a simple question.
Jack Vincennes: Why in the world do you wanna go digging any deeper into the Nite Owl killings, Lieutenant?
Ed Exley: Rollo Tomasi.
Jack Vincennes: Is there more to that, or am I supposed to guess?
Ed Exley: Rollo was a purse snatcher. My father ran into him off duty, and he shot my father six times and got away clean. No one even knew who he was. I just made the name up to give him some personality.
Excuse me, ma'am. Just the facts.
Brett Chase
Why don't you and I go someplace quiet, cause I'd love to give you the low-down on Mitchum.
Jack Vincennes
Oh, great. You get the girl, I get the coroner.
Jack Vincennes
Dick Stensland: We'll do the town one night on me.
Bud White: I'll bring my wallet just in case.
