John Vukovich Quotes in To Live and Die in L.A. (1985)

Credit Card Counterfeiter: Why are you chasing me?

John Vukovich: Why you running?

Credit Card Counterfeiter: 'Cause you're chasing me, man!

John Vukovich: We got an FBI agent killed. You hear that?

Richard Chance: What do you want me to do about it, John?

John Vukovich: It's just a matter of time before they fuckin' identify us. They got a good look at us.

Richard Chance: A face is bullshit without a name.

John Vukovich: They got a make on the car!

Richard Chance: Look, they would have sent it out over the teletype if they had anything. They're grabbing at shit.

[Vukovich has been given details about the prospect of testifying in court]

John Vukovich: But you can't get involved, right?

Bob Grimes: Not directly.

John Vukovich: What would it cost for your indirect involvement.

Bob Grimes: $50,000.

[pause]

Bob Grimes: I know it's a tough call, but it's one you're going to have to make rather quickly.

John Vukovich: I can't hand out my partner. I can't do it, even if I have to go to the joint.

[last lines]

John Vukovich: [to Ruth] You're working for me now.

John Vukovich: So now you want to commit a robbery?

Richard Chance: I wouldn't call it that.

John Vukovich: What would you call it?

Richard Chance: Taking down a douche bag who's trying to break the law.

Bob Grimes: I don't have a lot of time. I'm in the middle of a trial.

John Vukovich: What kind of trial?

Bob Grimes: It's a dope case. Client got busted smuggling fifty pounds of cocaine. I should be able to get him off, though. Seach warrant's weak.

John Vukovich: Weak?

Bob Grimes: Color of the house is listed as brown in the warrant, when in fact it's beige and yellow.

John Vukovich: You should be ashamed of yourself.

Bob Grimes: I don't make any apologies for being an attorney. If I didn't accept the case, somebody else would, without a doubt. Without a doubt.

[Richard Chance is looking at the journal he took from Max Waxman's residence]

John Vukovich: It's a crime scene, buddy. The book is evidence. What if the cop remembers it's missing?

Richard Chance: Shit. The rookie couldn't remember what he saw. He wasn't in there long enough.