Trial and Error (1996)

Jeff Daniels: Charles Tuttle

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• Charles Tuttle : I don't pose, I don't preen, I don't put perjured testimony on the stand. I don't make a mockery of the American legal system.

  Richard Rietti : Well, you got your style. I got mine.

  Charles Tuttle : No, you got nothing. You've got nothing. You've got a S.A.G. card and a rent-controlled apartment in Santa Monica. That's what you've got. You're in over your head, Richard. You don't have the equipment for this.

• Charles Tuttle : Prior use of the machine is not determinative of possessorary interest.

  Tattooed Lowlife : And you a lawyer?

  Charles Tuttle : Yes.

  Heavy Lowlife , Tattooed Lowlife : [both punch him at the same time] 

• Charles Tuttle : My kindergarten teacher. I was four. She said I was too advanced for my class, and so they skipped a grade. I didn't want to be skipped, but everybody acted like I was so special. Then pretty soon I working even harder to get skipped all over again. And that, my friend, is how you end up in the junkyard.

• Charles Tuttle : We don't wanna win, Richard. This isn't about winning. This is about not getting lynched.