Favorite Southland Quotes
Chickie: I dealt with it for five years, you can't take it for four hours.
John: When he was drunk, he was funny. If I've gotta hear one more thing about AA, I'm going bring back the Daryl Gates chokehold myself.
Josie: In my Newton gang unit days we never needed any help. We worked triples by ourselves. One detective, highest clearance rate in the city.
Sammy: I heard they were weeping in the halls when you left. Why don't you go back.
That guy could charm the panties off a nun.
Josie
Ben: The Den Mother?
Chickie: You'd prefer Buzz the Badge Bunny? That's what they used to call her.
Cathleen Kerik: Okay. What is it exactly that you don't like about me?
Det. Lydia Adams: I don't like the fact that if this girl was found in an alley in Brentwood, this would be front-page news. I don't like that there's a backlog of rape DNA of 3,000 cases. I don't like the skirt you wear. I don't like your hairstyle. I don't like that every time a man is within 15 feet of you, you push out your chest and your voice gets all kittenish.
I took my boys out to lunch the other day, right, and, uh... Petey starts horsing around, juggling meatballs up in the air. My little guy hates to be upstaged by his brother so he takes his peas and starts shoving them up his nose. (laughs) So now it's official. The Moretta boys are banned from Denny's for life.
Det. Nate Moretta
I'll give you twenty bucks if you hit one of them.
Lydia
All these flashes, no wonder King Kong flipped out.
Lydia
Somebody shot Nobody.
Sammy
Bastard cut her head off and you're trying out for the Improv.
Russell
Fluffy came home with blood on his paws.
Josie
Nate: Remember his brother, Bigfoot? The funeral he had: stretch Hummers and strippers throwing cash.
