12 Angry Men Quotes

3: "That's old enough. He knifed his own father. Four inches into the chest. An innocent little nineteen-year-old kid. They proved it a dozen different ways."

12: "It seems to me that it's up to us to convince this gentleman that we're right and he's wrong."

7: "At fifteen he was in reform school. He stole a car. He's been arrested for mugging. He was picked up for knife-fighting. I think they said he stabbed somebody in the arm."

5: "I used to play in a backyard that was filled with garbage. Maybe it still smells on me."

4: "The storekeeper identified it and said it was the only one of its kind he had in stock. Why did the boy get it? As a present for a friend of his, he says."

8: "I got it last night in a little lunk shop around the corner from the boy's house. It cost two dollars."

8: "I want you eleven men to vote by secret ballot. I'll abstain. If there are still eleven votes for guilty, I won't stand alone. We'll take in a guilty verdict right now."

8: "The old man would have had to hear the boy say, 'I'm going to kill you,'while the front of the el was roaring past his nose. It's not possible that he could have heard it."

3: "He's an old man. You saw him. Half the time he was confused. How could he be positive about...anything?"

3: "Let me go! I'll kill him. I'll kill him!"

5: "You mean you still don't think there's room for reasonable doubt?"

2: "It's a very awkward thing to stab down into the chest of someone who's half a foot taller than you are."

10: "Look, you know how those people lie. I don't have to tell you. They don't know what the truth is."

11: "The woman wore bifocals. I remember this very clearly. They looked quite strong."

3: "A guilty man's gonna be walking the streets. A murderer. He's got to die!"