Danny DeVito credited as playing...
Deck Shifflet
- Deck Shiffler: [after waking Rudy with a before-sunrise phone call] Guess who died last night?
- Rudy Baylor: Who? Do you ever sleep?
- Deck Shiffler: Harvey Hale! Age 62, quite a pedigree.
- Rudy Baylor: Judge Hale?
- Deck Shiffler: Yep. Croaked with a heart attack, dropped dead by his swimming pool.
- Rudy Baylor: You gotta be kidding me!
- Deck Shiffler: Guess which newly-made judge was assigned to Great Benefit's case?
- Rudy Baylor: How the hell am I supposed to know that, Deck?
- Deck Shiffler: Tyrone Kipler. Black, Harvard, civil-rights lawyer. Hates Tinley Britt, and he's tough on insurance companies. You know what a Rainmaker is, kid? The bucks are gonna be falling from the sky.
- Deck Shiffler: What did they teach you in law school?
- Rudy Baylor: Well, they didn't teach me how to chase ambulances!
- Deck Shiffler: Well, you better learn quick or you're gonna starve.
- Deck Shiffler: In law school, Rudy, they don't teach you what you need to know. It's all theories and lofty notions and big fat ethics books.
- Rudy Baylor: What's wrong with ethics?
- Deck Shiffler: Nothing, I guess.
- Rudy Baylor: Here's the policy. What do you think?
- Deck Shiffler: Well, this is the scratch-and-sniff armpit of the industry.
- Deck Shiffler: We came with nothing. If he'd have thrown us out of his room for whatever reason, what have we lost?
- Rudy Baylor: A little dignity. Maybe a little self-respect.
- Butch: This bugging device has got medium-grade circuitry. It's a weak transmitter. Probably manufactured in Czechoslovakia. I don't think the cops or the Feds would place this.
- Deck Shiffler: Somebody else is listenin'.
- Deck Shiffler: They're bastards! This is a typical debit insurance scam. The Blacks call it street-surance.
- Rudy Baylor: So what do I do?
- Deck Shiffler: You sign 'em up. Sign 'em all up.