Juror #1 Quotes in My Cousin Vinny (1992)

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Juror #1 Quotes:

  • Mona Lisa Vito: The car that made these two, equal-length tire marks had positraction. You can't make those marks without positraction, which was not available on the '64 Buick Skylark!

    Vinny Gambini: And why not? What is positraction?

    Mona Lisa Vito: It's a limited slip differential which distributes power equally to both the right and left tires. The '64 Skylark had a regular differential, which, anyone who's been stuck in the mud in Alabama knows, you step on the gas, one tire spins, the other tire does nothing.

    Juror #1: That's right.

    Vinny Gambini: Is that it?

    Mona Lisa Vito: No, there's more! You see? When the left tire mark goes up on the curb and the right tire mark stays flat and even? Well, the '64 Skylark had a solid rear axle, so when the left tire would go up on the curb, the right tire would tilt out and ride along its edge. But that didn't happen here. The tire mark stayed flat and even. This car had an independent rear suspension. Now, in the '60s, there were only two other cars made in America that had positraction, and independent rear suspension, and enough power to make these marks. One was the Corvette, which could never be confused with the Buick Skylark. The other had the same body length, height, width, weight, wheel base, and wheel track as the '64 Skylark, and that was the 1963 Pontiac Tempest.

    Vinny Gambini: And because both cars were made by GM, were both cars available in metallic mint green paint?

    Mona Lisa Vito: They were!

    Vinny Gambini: Thank you, Ms. Vito. No more questions. Thank you very, very much.

    [kissing her hands]

    Vinny Gambini: You've been a lovely, lovely witness.

  • Juror #10: [when a new "not guilty" vote appears in a secret ballot] All right, who was it? I wanna know.

    Juror #11: Excuse me, this was a secret ballot. We all agreed on that. Now, if the gentleman wants it to remain secret...

    Juror #3: "Secret"? What do you mean, "secret"? There are no secrets in a jury room, I know who it was.

    Juror #3: [to Juror #5] Brother, you really are somethin'. you sit here vote guilty like the rest of us, then some golden-voiced preacher starts tearing your poor heart out about some underprivileged kid, just couldn't help becoming a murderer, and you change your vote. Well, if that isn't the most sickening - *why don't you drop a quarter in his collection box?*

    Juror #5: [astonished that #3 was accusing him, gets up] Oh, now just wait a minute! Listen, you can't talk to me that! Who do you think you are?

    Juror #4: Now calm down, calm down!

    Juror #5: No, now who do you think you are?

    Juror #4: It doesn't matter. He's very excitable. Just sit down...

    Juror #3: [exploding] "Excitable"? You bet I'm excitable! We're trying to put a guilty man in the chair where he belongs, and then someone starts telling us fairy tales and we're listening!

    Juror #1: Heya, c'mon now.

    Juror #3: [to Juror #5] What made you change your vote?

    Juror #9: He didn't change his vote - *I* did!

    Juror #10: [everyone stares] Ohhh, fine!

    Juror #9: Would you like me to tell ya why?

    Juror #7: No, I wouldn't like you to tell me why.

    Juror #7: Well, I'd like to make it clear anyways, if you don't mind.

    Juror #10: [impatient] Do we *have* to listen to this?

    Juror #6: [firmly] The man wants to talk.

    Juror #9: [to Juror #6] Thank you.

    Juror #9: [motions to Juror #8] This gentleman has been standing alone against us. Now, he doesn't say that the boy is *not* guilty; he just isn't *sure*. Well, it's not easy to stand alone against the ridicule of others, so he gambled for support... and I gave it to him. I respect his motives. The boy is probably guilty, but - eh, I want to hear more. Right now the vote is 10 to 2...

    [Juror #7 gets up and heads to the bathroom]

    Juror #9: Now I'm talking here! You have no right to leave this room - !

    Juror #8: [calmly stopping him] He can't hear you, and he never will. Let's sit down.

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