Assistant District Attorney Martin Harrison Quotes in Chicago (2002)

Billy Flynn: Objection!

Judge: Sustained.

Assistant District Attorney Martin Harrison: Your Honor, I haven't even asked a question yet.

Assistant District Attorney Martin Harrison: You mean he was dead when you got home?

Amos Hart: She's got him covered in a sheet and she's telling me this cock-and-bull story about this burglar, and how I ought to say it was me 'cause I was sure to get off. "Help me, Amos," she says, "it's my goddamn hour of need."

[talking over Roxie's singing]

Amos Hart: That cheap little tramp. So she's been two-timing me, huh? Well, I'm through protecting her; she can swing for all I care! Boy, I'm down at the garage working my butt off fourteen hours a day and she's out there munching on bonbons and tramping around like some goddamn floozy! Thought she could pull the wool over my eyes? Well, I wasn't born yesterday. I tell ya, there are some things a man just can't take, and this time she pushed me too far. That little chiseler! Boy, what a sap I was!

Roxie: He was trying to burgle me.

Assistant District Attorney Martin Harrison: From what I hear, he's been burgling you three times a week for the past month.

Bailiff: Do you promise to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help you God?

Velma Kelly: And then some.

Bailiff: Take a seat.

Assistant District Attorney Martin Harrison: Would you state your name for the record, please?

Velma Kelly: Velma Kelly.

Assistant District Attorney Martin Harrison: Ms. Kelly, would you please tell the court if the object that I am holding is the one you happened to come across in the defendant's jail cell?

Velma Kelly: Yes, it is.

Assistant District Attorney Martin Harrison: I submit this as Exhibit X - Roxie Hart's diary!

Billy Flynn: I object! My client has never held a diary! And even if she did, this would be... invasion of privacy, and violation of the fourth amendment, and... and illegal search without a warrant!

Roxie Hart: Yeah, AND she broke the lock!

[after Roxie finds out about Fred Casley]

Roxie: Yeah, I killed him and I would kill him again! I would kill him again!

Assistant District Attorney Martin Harrison: Once was enough, dearie. Take her downtown. Come on!

Assistant District Attorney Martin Harrison: This is hanging case, and we're ready to go to in front of the jury tomorrow.

Roxie: Wha-Wha-What do you mean hanging?

Assistant District Attorney Martin Harrison: You're not so tough now, are you?

Roxie: What do ya mean hanging?

Billy Flynn: [Reading from Roxie's diary] Amos accused me of having an affair. So I told him the charge was erroneous.

Assistant District Attorney Martin Harrison: Objection, Your Honour. Mr Flynn is twisting the evidence to draw conclusions that are specious and, er...

Billy Flynn: Erroneous?

Assistant District Attorney Martin Harrison: Exactly!

[Everyone else in the courtroom laughs]