The Lincoln Lawyer Quotes

Eddie Vogel: [from trailer] Counsellor?

Mick Haller: Eddie, we had a deal. Either you pay me, or go with a public defender.

Eddie Vogel: How 'bout five grand?

Mick Haller: Ten.

[Eddie then hands Mick a brown envelope, presumably with money in it. Mick shakes the envelope]

Eddie Vogel: Ain't you gonna count it?

Mick Haller: I just did.

Eddie Vogel: How's it hanging, counselor?

Mick Haller: A little to the left.

Mick Haller: When do you retire, Lankford?

Detective Lankford: When do I retire?

Mick Haller: Yeah.

Detective Lankford: Eighteen months. Why?

Mick Haller: I wanna make sure I show up the next morning so I can kick your ass.

Earl: You know what? You would've done all right on the streets.

Mick Haller: Shit. Where do you think I am, Earl?

Frank Levin: [looking out of top floor window] You're so vain. Nobody would care if you killed yourself.

Mick Haller: It'd look cool. What do you think the last thing to go through your mind would be?

Frank Levin: Your asshole.

Mick Haller: Yeah.

Mick Haller: You know what my father always said about an innocent client?

Frank Levin: [sarcastically] No, I've never heard this...

Mick Haller: Do you know the difference between a Maserati and a Range Rover?

Reggie Campo: One is small and one is big, I guess.

[last lines]

Mick Haller: I tell you what Eddie, how about I do this one for free?

Eddie Vogel: [gestures at him and leaves]

Earl: Are you sure you're feeling all right?

Mick Haller: Repeat customers, Earl. We'll stick it to 'em next time...

Eddie Vogel: You really shoot your client's mother?

Mick Haller: Damn right I did. She shot me first.

Mick Haller: Maggie, you know what I used to be afraid of Maggie?

Maggie McPherson: Yeah, me.

Mick Haller: That I wouldn't recognize innocence. That it would be right there in front of me and I just wouldn't see it.

Maggie McPherson: Yeah...

Mick Haller: I'm not talking about guilty or not guilty; just, just innocence. Know what I'm afraid of now?

[Maggie shakes head]

Mick Haller: Evil. Pure Evil.

Frank Levin: Jesus, Mick, are you starting to think Louis is innocent?

Mick Haller: He just might. Besides, you know, my father always said about an innocent client.

Frank Levin: No, I've never heard this. Hi...

Maggie McPherson: He said 'there's no client as scary as an innocent man'.

Mick Haller: That's right. 'Cos if you screw up and he goes to prison... You're never gonna be able to live with yourself.

[Mick, armed with a baseball bat, discovers Louis has broken into his house]

Louis Roulet: [sitting casually in Mick's home office] If you're wondering how I got in, I'm in real estate, so if I want to get into a friend's house...

Mick Haller: No, we're not friends. You're my client. And I'm your lawyer.

Louis Roulet: My lawyer. See, that's exactly what I wanted to remind you of. I'm about to go on trial, and yet I couldn't reach you. Now I find out where you were all day. Heard you tell Maggie.

Mick Haller: You shit.

Louis Roulet: You went to see Jesus Martinez. And I know what you talked about: Donna Renteria. You're right, Mick. I killed her. There. No reason I shouldn't tell my own lawyer since it's all confidential. Attorney-client privilege. Isn't that what you told me?

Mick Haller: It's time for you to go, Louis.

Louis Roulet: Alright.

[He sits up, finishes his drink, and stands up. He notices a framed picture of Mick & his daughter Hayley on Mick's desk]

Louis Roulet: [walks out into the living room] That's a cute picture of your daughter Hayley. She's very pretty. She's got soccer practice tomorrow, right?

Mick Haller: [following Louis] Don't.

Louis Roulet: [pretending to be confused] Don't what?

Mick Haller: [gets in Louis' face] You think you're the first client to threaten me and my family? Huh?

Louis Roulet: All I said was she's pretty.

Mick Haller: Are you scared, Louis? Because where you are right now, you're in a very dangerous place.

[He opens the front door and Louis leaves]

Mick Haller: [sitting on Maggie's front porch as Louis approaches him] Hello, Louis. My family's here.

Louis Roulet: I know.

Mick Haller: You bring your knife? My gun?

Louis Roulet: Maybe.

Mick Haller: Good.

[pulls his new gun out of his coat pocket]

Mick Haller: 'Cause I brought this. You've got one chance to turn around and leave.

Louis Roulet: [stepping closer] And then what? You gonna keep coming back every night? Every day? Or just try to get me sent up to San Quentin like Jesus Martinez?

Mick Haller: No. I'm not quitting until Martinez is free and you're convicted of murder. And when that needle goes in your arm, that will be me.

[nods]

Louis Roulet: [as a commuter train passes by in the background] Well, why don't you just shoot me right now?

Mick Haller: I don't think I'll have to.

[looks out towards the street]

Louis Roulet: [turns around] Hey!

[Eddie Vogel and his biker gang pull up and start vandalizing Louis' car with baseball bats]

Louis Roulet: That's my car!

[a biker rides up from behind and hits Louis with a baseball bat, knocking him to the sidewalk]

Biker: It's Louis' car, man!

[the bikers continue vandalizing Louis' car as Mick gets up and walks to the street]

Biker: Come on, now. Get him up. Get up!

[another biker grabs Louis and drags him out into the middle of the street]

Mick Haller: Hospital, not the morgue.

[Eddie gives Mick a two-finger salute as his posse beats up Louis and Mick walks away]