Quotes
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Arnie Becker : There are a lot of ways I could go at this point. I could become an independent producer. I could become an agent.
Gwen Taylor : I thought you were happy being a studio executive, Arnie.
Arnie Becker : Gwen, in show-business a sense of complacency is a very dangerous thing.
Ann Kelsey : I'm thinking of opening a restaurant.
Jonathan Rollins : A restaurant?
Ann Kelsey : Yeah, these guys that started the California Pizza Kitchen were both lawyers.
Douglas Brackman, Jr. : What kind of restaurant?
Ann Kelsey : I don't know yet.
Stuart Markowitz : What about Fast Food Jewish?
Daniel Morales : Fast Food Jewish?
Stuart Markowitz : Yeah, absolutely. I think it'd be great to be able to walk up to a counter and get a little paper cone filled with kasha varnishkes.
[Melina laughs]
Jonathan Rollins : Well, I know that's something I've always wanted to do.
Douglas Brackman, Jr. : Well, shall we get started? Falcone vs. Falcone.
Arnie Becker : Yeah, another divorce, I'm meeting with the woman for the first time today. I'll try to dispose of it as painlessly as possible. I'm really not up for a fight.
Douglas Brackman, Jr. : People vs. Quinn.
Daniel Morales : That's my murder case. The jury's picked, we go to trial later today.
Ann Kelsey : Are you still holding with the plea of temporary insanity?
Daniel Morales : I don't believe in it, but it's all I got.
Douglas Brackman, Jr. : Samuels vs. San Fernando Psychiatric.
Ann Kelsey : Uh, all I know is the - this is a negligence action and Samuels knows some people in the Clinton Administration.
Douglas Brackman, Jr. : Whether we knew some people in the Clinton Administration. Mickey Kantor and Warren Christopher, both came out of L.A. Law firms. They're tapping all kinds of people from here to do all kinds of things. What do we get? Nothing.
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Leland McKenzie : Are you done, Douglas?
Douglas Brackman, Jr. : Yeah.
Leland McKenzie : Good. I have something I want to say. I've sat by and watched as this place has changed. People have dissipated their time and wasted their talent. You have all, in varying degrees pursued other enterprises and neglected the one that this place was built on: the law. This, ladies and gentlemen, is a law office, and while you're present here, you will practice law. Period.
Arnie Becker : Leland...
Leland McKenzie : I'm not done. What you do on your own time is your own business. But at the work week belongs to me. So you'll all going to have to do a little soul searching. I want to see all the partners in my office at 5:00 today. I will expect either a commitment, or a resignation.
[Law partners and members will figure it out]
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[Arnie has arrived, is to meet his client Yvette Falcone. She is still looking]
Yvette Falcone : Arnold Becker.
Arnie Becker : That's me.
Yvette Falcone : I'm Yvette Falcone.
Arnie Becker : Hi. What can I do for you? Please, have a seat.
[Yvette sits down and they meeting other face to face]
Yvette Falcone : I want a divorce.
Arnie Becker : Most people have come to see me do.
[Arnie puts his jacket on]
Yvette Falcone : I've been married 6 years, there are no children. My husband was bringing in about a million a year. He's a prizefighter.
[Arnie check the file]
Arnie Becker : Your husband is Bobby Falcone.
Yvette Falcone : Right.
Arnie Becker : I've seen him fight.
Yvette Falcone : Not recently, you haven't. He hasn't had a fight in more than a year.
Arnie Becker : What's the problem?
Yvette Falcone : I'm the problem. He knows that half of what he earns while he's married to me is mine. Since he doesn't want to pay me, he's stopped fighting.
Arnie Becker : Let me get in touch with his attorney.
Yvette Falcone : I did everything a fighter's wife is supposed to do. I took take of him when he needed to taking care of. I left him alone when he needed that. When he'd fight, I'd sit at ringside wearing a low-cut top, short skirt, because it was important for him that the whole world saw what he had. Now because I go out on him one time, he wants to send me on my way with $50,000 on the pat in the ass? No way. I want you to fight for me, Mr. Becker. And I want you to fight for me hard.
Arnie Becker : Call me Arnie.
