Abby, the girl on the beach was a setup. They do things like that, in case the other enticements don't work.
What are they going to do to you?
Whatever it is, they did it a long time ago.
Mitch McDeere
Tom Cruise · 12 quotes
Avery Tolar
Gene Hackman · 5 quotes
Wayne Tarrance
Ed Harris · 4 quotes
Abby McDeere
Jeanne Tripplehorn · 3 quotes
Most scenes together: Mitch McDeere & Wayne Tarrance (4), Mitch McDeere & Avery Tolar (2)
The Firm quotes
Page 1 of 2Do you think I'm talking about breaking the law?
No, I'm just trying to figure out how far you want it bent.
As far as you can without breaking it.
Anything I can do for you?
Ray McDeere
Sure. Get me out of here.
Where to?
Ray McDeere
Anywhere I can see a whole lot of sky. I get through the days, I even eat the food. It's amazing how much you miss the sky.
Are you saying my life is in danger?
Denton Voyles
I am saying that your life as you know it is over.
Did I lose you?
You look tired.
Did I?
I've loved you all my life. Even before we met. Part of it wasn't even you. It was just a promise of you. But these last days... You kept your promise. How could you lose me?
I got mine, Wayne, you get the rest of them.
Get 'em with what? Overbilling, mail fraud? Oh, that's exciting.
It's not sexy, but it's got teeth! Ten thousand dollars and five years in prison. That's ten and five for each act. Have you really looked at that? You've got every partner in the firm on overbilling. There's two hundred fifty acts of documented mail fraud there. That's racketeering! That's minimum one thousand, two hundred fifty years in prison and half a million dollars in fines. That's more than you had on Capone.
Let me get this straight: you want me to steal files from the firm, turn them over to the FBI, send my colleagues to jail...
They roped you into this.
Breach attorney-client privilege, thus getting myself disbarred for life, then testify in open court against the Mafia...
Well, unfortunately, Mitch...
Let me ask you something: are you out of your **** mind?
What led you to law school?
It's so far back I don't think I can remember.
Sure you can, Counsellor.
I used to caddy for lawyers and their wives on summer weekends. I looked at those long tan legs and just knew I had to be a lawyer. The wives had long tan legs, too.
Ray McDeere
How'd you land a job like that with a brother in the slammer?
Ray McDeere
[Mitch says nothing]
I get it. Don't worry, I'd probably have done the same thing.
You're always there for me, Ray...
Ray McDeere
I'd have done the same thing. You think I want to tell the guys around here that I got a brother at Harvard?
Royce McKnight
He lied about his brother.
Wouldn't you lie about having a felon in the family to get a job like this?
Bill DeVasher
He ought to be kept on a short leash.
Why? You've got nothing to be suspicious about.
Bill DeVasher
I get paid to be suspicious when I've got nothing to be suspicious about.
How about you get down on your knees and kiss my ass for not indicting you as a co-conspirator right now, you chickenshit little Harvard ****?
I haven't done anything, and you know it!
Who gives a ****? I'm a federal agent! You know what that means, you lowlife mother****er? It means you've got no rights, your life is mine! I could kick your teeth down your throat and yank them out your asshole, and I'm not even violating your civil rights!
You are Agent Wayne Tarrance.
Yeah, you’re goddamn right I am. Maybe local cops can’t…
Man, I don't understand you. What'd you do it for? You didn't win a thing.
Oh, yes I did. I won my life back. YOU don't run me, and THEY don't run me!
Being a tax lawyer's got nothing to do with the law. It's a game. We teach the rich how to play it so they can stay rich. The IRS keeps changing the rules so we can keep getting rich teaching them. It's a game...
Hey Ray, wouldn't it be funny if I went to Harvard, you went to jail and we both ended up surrounded by crooks.
Somewhere, inside, in the dark, the firm is listening.