Attorney Quotes in North (1994)

[North's parents lay unconscious]

Attorney: Your honor, the defense rests.

Hanky Royce: Mom, we're back!

Jessica Royce: Hanky!

[rushes to Hanky and gives him a hug]

Jessica Royce: Hanky. Oh, baby, I've been so worried about you.

Brinks: Congratulations, Hanky. Consumer research is at your service.

Attorney: Congratulations, young man.

Gilbert Sipes: Oh, thank heaven. Our search has been successful. Hanky and Gordy safe and sound.

Attorney: [reading the will] My dear relatives and friends, under ordinary circumstances, my beloved daughter Jessica will inherit my industrial empire. However, rather than devote her energy's incorporate business, Jessica has chosen a personal career. With that in mind, Jessica will not be next in line to inherit Royce industries.

[Jessica felt heartbroken and leaned against Gilbert. Brinks crosses out something from a notepad]

Attorney: In her place, I leave all of my holdings to the person closest to her. He loves her and will continue to provide all finances and expenditures required for her well-being. My beloved grandson Hanky.

[Jessica was surprised. Brinks writes down notes]

Attorney: However, my grandson is still a minor and must wait until he is of age to come into the inheritance. Therefore, I leave my entire fortune in the care of one who has helped build my company into one of the most successful businesses in America. The trademark of Hero Pig brands: Gordy.

[the Attorney shows his bodyguard the empty safety deposit box]

Bodyguard: I don't belive it! $830,000... gone. How?

Attorney: [stammering] I... I don't know. It's just...

Bodyguard: What are we going to tell Vegas?

Attorney: Whatever you tell them, they're not gonna belive it. I know those guys. They're killers. If you tell them the money's gone, stolen, or we got ripped off... they're gonna think we stole it.

Bodyguard: What do we do now?

Attorney: Start running. Jesus... man, you can't trust a bank!

[first lines]

Attorney: Where is he? Where is he? Get up! Get up!

George: I am up. I was up. And I've been up all night. I would have stayed up if you hadn't knocked me down.

Attorney: Your Honor, here are the true owners of the slaves.

Judge Juttson: Order!

Attorney: On their behalf, I am in possession of a receipt for purchase executed in Havana, Cuba, June twenty-sixth, 1839. I do hereby call on this court to immediately surrender these goods!

Attorney: According to the legal documents I have here, it states that the proposition 22 is only a marriage between a man and a woman, and that will be recognized by California. However, what you two have is not a marriage but a civil union, which nonetheless is equivalent to that of a marriage. You still bear the rights that married couples do. So, the civil union license that you have from Vermont must be recognized here in California.

Ben Sheets: So if it's law here, why do we have to go to court?

Attorney: Because it's all a matter of values and principles that all gays deserve the same rights as anyone else.