Favorite L.A. Confidential Quotes
Go back to Jersey, Sonny. This is the City of the Angels and you haven't got any wings.
Dudley Smith
Some men get the world. Others get ex-hookers and a trip to Arizona.
Lynn Bracken
[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
Bud White: The Night Owl case made you. Do you want to tear all that down?
Ed Exley: With a wrecking ball. You want to help me swing it?
Jack Vincennes: What's that about?
Sid Hudgens: Eh, we ran a piece last year, "Ingenue Dykes in Hollywood." Her name got mentioned.
Ed Exley: Rollo Tomasi is the reason I became a cop. I wanted to catch the guys who thought they could get away with it. It's supposed to be about justice. Then somewhere along the way, I lost sight of that. Why'd you become a cop?
Jack Vincennes: [long pause] I don't remember.
Captain Dudley Smith: You'll do as I say, and ask no questions. Do you follow my drift?
Bud White: In technicolor, sir.
Excuse me, ma'am. Just the facts.
Brett Chase
I wouldn't trade places with Edmund Exley right now for all the whisky in Ireland.
Captain Dudley Smith
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
