Changing Lanes

Doyle Gipson:
Money. You... you think I want money? What I want is my morning back. I need you to give my time back to me. Can you give me back my time? Can you give my time back to me? Huh? Can you?

Gavin Banek:
Its like seeing someone for the first time... you know passing them on the street. And you kinda look at each other for a few seconds, like a recognition. Like you both know something. And the next moment the person is gone. And you always remember it, it was there and you let it go. And you think What if I had stopped? What if I had said something. What if...

Doyle Gipson:
Come on, man, don't leave me out here like this.

Gavin Banek:
Sorry, better luck next time.

Valerie Gipson:
What do you want?

Gavin Banek:
Five minutes, ma'am. I owe your husband twenty. Hell... I'm only asking for five with you.

Sponsor:
What happened in court today?

Doyle Gipson:
I'm in a bar. What does that tell you?

Sponsor:
It tells me that you're really angry. And that anger has gotten you into the one place in the world you shouldn't be.

Gavin Banek:
Sometimes God likes to put two guys in a paper bag and just let 'em rip.

Sponsor:
You know, booze isn't really your drug of choice anyway. You're addicted to chaos. For some of us, it's coke. For some of us, it's bourbon. But you? You got hooked on disaster.

Carlyle:
You hit me!

Doyle Gipson:
I'll hit you again! You like it?

Valerie Gipson:
Whatever drama you've gotten yourself into, it's just the kind of thing that always happens to you. And it never happens to me unless I am in your field of gravity.

Sponsor:
What you saw today is that everything decent is held together by a covenant. An agreement NOT to go batshit. You broke the contract.

Doyle Gipson:
I hope you don't mind, but I was intrigued by your conversation. I just thought you were in advertising. So I want to give you my dream version of a Tiger Woods commercial, okay? There's this black guy on a golf course. And all these people are trying to get him to caddy for them, but he's not a caddy. He's just a guy trying to play a round of golf. And these guys give him a five-dollar bill and tell him to go the clubhouse and get them cigarettes and beer. So, off he goes, home, to his wife and to their little son, who he teaches to play golf. You see all the other little boys playing hopscotch while little Tiger practices on the putting green. You see all the other kids eating ice cream while Tiger practices hitting long balls in the rain while his father shows him how. And we fade up, to Tiger, winning four Grand Slams in a row, and becoming the greatest golfer to ever pick up a 9-iron. And we end on his father in the crowd, on the sidelines, and Tiger giving him the trophies. All because of a father's determination that no fat white man - like your fathers, probably - would ever send his son to the clubhouse for cigarettes and beer.

Gavin Banek:
I'm gonna hold on to this file. I'm gonna keep it in a very safe place. But I'm not going to Texas. I'm gonna come back into work on Monday. I'm gonna start doing that pro bono work that you recommended that I do. But I'm gonna do it from our office. The first thing we're gonna do is help a man buy a house.

Gavin Banek:
What am I gonna do?

Michelle:
Well... there's this guy. He helps with things that need... helping out.

Gavin Banek:
Like what?

Michelle:
Like things. Like... getting people to do things you want them to do when they don't necessarily want to do them.

Gavin Banek:
I was thinking about what you said to me. About the end of the day - about doing more good than harm. That is what you said, isn't it?

Stephen Delano:
Don't you f*** with me.

Gavin Banek:
I am not f***ing with you, sir. Can you imagine how unpleasant it would be if the judge got a hold of this file?

Gavin Banek:
You were right. I can do this. I found the edge. Can you live there with me? Can you?

Gavin Banek:
I haven't had a f***ing thing to eat all day, I'm starving. So what are we gonna eat?

Doyle Gipson:
Think I'll make this the boys' room.

Doyle Gipson:
I wasn't bankrupt yesterday and I'm not bankrupt today!

Ron Cabot:
I'm sorry, Mr. Gipson. The computer says you are.

Doyle Gipson:
Now it doesn't!

Cynthia Delano Banek (Amanda Peet):
Did you know that my father had a mistress for 20 years?

Gavin Banek (Ben Affleck):
No.

Cynthia:
Don't lie.

Gavin:
I didn't know it was 20 years.

Cynthia:
My mother knew about it.

Gavin:
Why didn't she leave him?

Cynthia:
Because she loved him so much. And she decided it'd be hypocritical to leave a man for cheating at home, when the expensive life she enjoyed so much was paid for by a man whose job was based on finding ways to cheat.

Gavin:
Is that your opinion on the law?

Cynthia:
What do you think the law is, Gav, at this level of the game, at my father's level of the game, at your level of the game? It is a big, vicious rumble, Gavin. The people who founded this law firm, and the people who sustain it, understand the way the world works. If you wanna continue to live the way we've been living...You have to steal. I could have married an honest man. I could have lived with a professor of Middle English, for example. If he was a moral man, and had tenure at Princeton. But I didn't. I married a Wall Street lawyer. Which means I married someone who lives in a world where when a man comes to the edge of things, he has to commit to staying there and living there. Can you live there, Gavin? Can you live there with me? You're not gonna do anything stupid like leaving me. You've had fantasies, I'm sure. So have I. But we're married. I knew about Michelle. I knew when it was happening. And I knew when it was finished. And I know you love me. You do love me. And I love you, too. I'm your wife, and I want to stand beside you. Just let me help you, Gavin. Let me help you with this.

Gavin:
What do you want me to do?

Cynthia:
Take the signature page from the living will and attach it to the newly formatted copy of the power of appointment. Bring it to the courthouse, and then meet me for dinner tonight. We're going out with Karen and Carl.

Gavin:
my father-in-law got me to screw a good man, a decent man, out of his money. And my wife cheers me on.

Uncut version of the confessional.

Gavin:
[God's] watching us. He's peering down at us, you know? Sometimes God likes to watch a love story, sometimes God likes to watch a football game, you know? He channel hops. Sometimes God likes a war. Sometimes God likes to put two guys in a paper bag and just let 'em rip.

Priest:
God loves you.

Gavin:
That is a joke. God is a pathetic joke for losers, and you know it.

Gavin [To Stephen]:
I was thinking about what you said to me. About the end of the day, about doing more good than harm. That is what you said, isn't it?

Stephen Delano (Sydney Pollack):
Don't you f*** with me.

Gavin:
I'm not f***ing with you, sir. Can you imagine how unpleasant it would be if the judge got a hold of this file?

Stephen:
That's not going to happen. That's not going to happen, Gavin.

Mrs. Delano (Tina Sloan):
I think I might order the snapper.

Gavin:
I'm going to hold onto this file and keep it in a very safe place. But I'm not going to Texas. I'm going to come back into work on Monday. And I'm going to start doing that pro bono work that you recommended that I do. But I'm going to do it from our office. The first thing we're going to do is help a man buy a house.

Cynthia:
Gavin, can we please not do this?

Gavin:
And I think I would like to be the one to call Mina Dunne. I'm going to tell her that you and Walter are going to give back the $3 million you stole from her grandfather's foundation.... [To Cynthia:] You were right. I can do this. I found the edge. Can you live there, with me? Can you? ... I haven't had a f***ing thing to eat all day, I'm starving. So, what are we going to eat?