12 Angry Men Quotes

Gentlemen, that’s a very sad thing… to be nothing.

You people are talking only about the little details. You’re forgetting the important stuff.

We’re talking about somebody’s life here. We can’t decide it in five minutes.

Not guilty.

Let me ask you this. Do you really think the boy would shout out a thing like that so the whole neighborhood could hear him? I don’t think so. He’s much too bright for that.[Juror 8]Bright? He’s a common ignorant slob. He don’t even speak good English.[Juror 10]“He doesn’t even speak good English.”[Juror 11, with a foreign accent]

I’m sick and tired of facts! You can twist them any way you like. You know what I mean?[Juror 10]That’s exactly the point this gentleman has been making.[Juror 9, indicates Juror 8]

I never saw so much time spent on nothing.

Excitable? You bet I’m excitable! We’re trying to put a guilty man in the chair where he belongs! Someone starts telling us fairy tales and we’re listening!