Clint Eastwood credited as playing...
Steve Everett
- Bridget Rossiter: Want coffee, Ev? It's back in fashion as a late-morning pick-me-up.
- Steve Everett: Make it a big one.
- Bridget Rossiter: Women can fetch coffee now because job opportunities give us new confidence.
- Steve Everett: I'm writing a human-interest sidebar. Do you know what that is?
- Counter Woman at Pocum's Grocery: No, I don't think I do.
- Steve Everett: I don't think I do either.
- Henry Lowenstein: Well, speak of the devil! Alan tells me I'm paying you too much.
- Steve Everett: You can rest assured I'm frittering it away on women and booze.
- Henry Lowenstein: You're a real dyed-in-the-wool son of a bitch. Anybody ever tell you that?
- Steve Everett: Just close friends and family.
- Steve Everett: Mister Beachum... Frankly I don't give a rat's ass about Jesus Christ and I don't care about justice in this world, or the next.
- Bridget Rossiter: More and more workers insist on the right not to breathe secondhand smoke.
- Steve Everett: And more and more scumbags don't care. Well, Bridget, you're an adorable person.
- Bridget Rossiter: Sexual harassment.
- Steve Everett: What are the guidelines?
- Bridget Rossiter: Who can say? I hate my job, Ev.
- Steve Everett: But I love watching you do it.
- Prison Guard: They lie, you know?
- Steve Everett: Who's that?
- Prison Guard: Prisoners. That's what they do. Every word they say is a lie.
- Steve Everett: Well, everyone lies, pal. I'm just here to write it down.
- Steve Everett: [driving to the Governor's mansion, to try and get a last-minute reprieve for a condemned man] We go fast!