The Rainmaker Quotes
An underdog lawyer takes on a fraudulent Insurance company.
Deck Shiffler: [after waking Rudy with a before-sunrise phone call] Guess who died last night?
Rudy Baylor: Who? Do you ever sleep?
Deck Shiffler: Harvey Hale! Age 62, quite a pedigree.
Rudy Baylor: Judge Hale?
Deck Shiffler: Yep. Croaked with a heart attack, dropped dead by his swimming pool.
Rudy Baylor: You gotta be kidding me!
Deck Shiffler: Guess which newly-made judge was assigned to Great Benefit's case?
Rudy Baylor: How the hell am I supposed to know that, Deck?
Deck Shiffler: Tyrone Kipler. Black, Harvard, civil-rights lawyer. Hates Tinley Britt, and he's tough on insurance companies. You know what a Rainmaker is, kid? The bucks are gonna be falling from the sky.
Rudy Baylor: Who? Do you ever sleep?
Deck Shiffler: Harvey Hale! Age 62, quite a pedigree.
Rudy Baylor: Judge Hale?
Deck Shiffler: Yep. Croaked with a heart attack, dropped dead by his swimming pool.
Rudy Baylor: You gotta be kidding me!
Deck Shiffler: Guess which newly-made judge was assigned to Great Benefit's case?
Rudy Baylor: How the hell am I supposed to know that, Deck?
Deck Shiffler: Tyrone Kipler. Black, Harvard, civil-rights lawyer. Hates Tinley Britt, and he's tough on insurance companies. You know what a Rainmaker is, kid? The bucks are gonna be falling from the sky.
Rudy Baylor: In my first year of law school everybody loved everybody else, 'cause we were all studying the law, and the law was a noble thing. By my third year you were lucky if you weren't murdered in your sleep. People stole exams, hid research materials from the library, and lied to the professors. Such is the nature of the profession.
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Rudy Baylor: My father hated lawyers all his life. He wasn't a great guy, my old man. He drank and beat up my mother; he beat me up too. So you might think I became a lawyer just to piss him off. But you'd be wrong. I wanted to be a lawyer ever since I read about the Civil Rights lawyers in the 50s and 60s, and the amazing uses they found for the law. They did what a lot of people thought was the impossible. They gave lawyers a good name. And so I went to law school. And it did piss my father off - he was pissed off anyway.
Rudy Baylor: My father hated lawyers all his life. He wasn't a great guy, my old man. He drank and beat up my mother; he beat me up too. So you might think I became a lawyer just to piss him off. But you'd be wrong. I wanted to be a lawyer ever since I read about the Civil Rights lawyers in the 50s and 60s, and the amazing uses they found for the law. They did what a lot of people thought was the impossible. They gave lawyers a good name. And so I went to law school. And it did piss my father off - he was pissed off anyway.
