The Good Fight
Thursdays on Paramount+The Good Fight Season 4 Quotes
Roisin: I know people think I’m crazy. I’ve been doing it for a while now. I’m up to 987,000.
Diane: Why?
Roisin: It’s calming. I used to take notes, verbatim notes on every deposition, every meeting, trial, negotiation, and then I would go home and make notes on those notes. And then I would review those notes and make even more notes, and I was an obsessive writer. As a kid, it was my diary, and then in college, my journal, and then five years ago, I lost my notebooks in a cab. And then my hair fell out because I was so worried. But you know what happened? Nothing. Everything I ever wrote it didn’t matter. Everything everybody wrote, pointless, and that’s when I started drawing dots. I felt like I accomplished something every time I finished a book, and I’m almost up to a million. So now when I watch the news, when I see what’s going on in the world, when I realize how little impact I have, I draw dots.
Liz: So why lawyering?
Caleb: I like this country. I’ve seen other places I don’t like, and I want it to stay the same. What are you thinking?
Liz: I was just thinking that I haven’t lived much of a life.
Caleb: No, no you have. I know enough to know you have.
Liz: This, this is how we got in trouble last time.
Caleb: I know, but I didn’t mind it.
Liz: Caleb, I am your…
Caleb: Superior?
Liz: Where should we go?
Julius: Is there something I can help you with sir?
Visitor: Oh no, you’re doing great already. Your instincts are right on the money, and you’re young enough to go the distance, so maybe I can help you.
Julius: With what?
Visitor: I move people up the ladder.
Julius: What are you talking about?
Visitor: You don’t become an appellate judge by seniority. You get there by listening. You just keep doing what you’re doing. I just wanted to say hello.
Chauffeur: You need something?
Lucca: No, it’s just hard to get used to this: the limo, driving me up to a private jet.
Chauffeur: Do it enough times, you get used to it.
Lucca: What are enough times?
Chauffeur: Five.
Diane: I think you and I should have lunch.
Julius: Why?
Diane: To trade information about Memo 618.
Marissa: If you feel guilty get her a gift, something a rich person needs.
Lucca: What does a rich person need?
Marissa: Love.
Julius Play Counterpart: My god, look at yourself.
Julius: Go away. You don’t exist.
Julius Play Counterpart: You damn right. A conservative with principles. There don’t seem to be any of those around here.
Julius: Well, it’s very easy for you to stay true to your principles. You don’t live in the real world.
Julius Play Counterpart: Go ahead. Make excuses for what you’ve become.
Julius: What’s that?
Julius Play Counterpart: A bad judge. Someone slides a piece of paper with Memo 618 across your desk and you fold like origami.
Marissa: How do I know you?
Jumaane: Jumaane Jenkins. I used to work here.
Marissa: Oh, you’re Alan North. You’re the druggie.
Jumaane: I wasn’t a druggie. Oh my god, how they rewrite history here.
Marissa: Well, they fired you.
Jumaane: Because they wanted me out, because they didn’t want an independent mind.
Marissa: Yeah, that’s how that works.
Lawyer: When Ms. Garnett’s lawsuit was dismissed, what steps did you take to challenge the dismissal?
Gabe: What steps?
Lawyer: Yes.
Gabe: Well, I got angry.
Lawyer: Good, and?
Gabe: And I wrote a very, very, very detailed letter to the judge.
Lawyer: Did you get a response?
Gabe: Nope.
Lawyer: Did you send it?
Gabe: Well, no, but that wasn’t my fault. The mail delivery in my office has been a disaster. Do you know that song by Bob Dylan, “Everything is Broken”? It’s so true.
Adrian: He’s satirizing our firm, Liz. He has me as some pathetic masochistic mother*cker who’s craving domination from Diane Lockhart.
Liz: Diane, she’s in it too?
Adrian: A character based on her.
Liz: So this guy wrote a play to get back at us. So what?
Adrian: They gave him a standing ovation, Liz. People stood and cheered.
Diane: Oh, who is representing you?
Kovac: Me, just me.
Diane: How about I represent you.
Kovac: Why would you do that?
Marissa: Yeah, why?
Diane: Well, it sounds like an injustice was done to this woman, but for her to blame a lawyer of your stature, it just seems like a further injustice.
Charlotte: So here we are for some culture: C**ksucker in Chains.
Adrian: The asterisk means it’s classy.
