Presumed Innocent Quotes

Your d*ck got hard for Carolyn, you f***ed her, and now you wanna feel less bad about it. It’s what men who cheat do, Rusty. They wanna have their cake, eat it, and then chalk it up to complexity.

Love isn’t what people tell you that it is. I’m sure that I don’t have to tell you that. But in my experience, it’s just something that grows until one day you just find yourself needing someone.[to Mya]

It’s not about the truth. It’s just about establishing reasonable doubt.

You betrayed her. You betrayed your children. In fact, knowing Barbara, the betrayal of the children is the deeper of the two offenses.[to Rusty]

Shame is something that you put on yourself. It’s self-absorbed, self-centered. Guilt is more about owning and feeling the pain that you cause others.[to Rusty]

Passion can blind a person. And I certainly lost sight of the things that were most important in my life. My wife and my children. Passion is a dangerous drug

It’s not a crime for me to want to wake up every morning to a life that has meaning.[to Lorraine]

It is very difficult for me to be in that room, to have to bear witness to all the things that are gonna be said, all the images depicted. That I am there at all… that tells the jury that I believe in my husband’s innocence. I need to be credible. But for me to be credible, I need to be truthful. And that is what I will be in that room. I will let them see my truth. That I am horrified, that I am sickened, that I am repulsed by such depravity, that I am offended by the mere notion that the father of my children could be responsible for such depravity. This is the darkest hour of my f***ing life. I will not pretend otherwise. Not for you two. Not for that jury.[to Raymond and Mya]

Doubt from a jury, that works for me. But doubt from my lawyers, that doesn’t work. And from my best friend, that doesn’t work either.[to Raymond and Mya]

Beautiful women tend to have a lot of enemies.