A Time to Kill (1996)

Sandra Bullock: Ellen Roark

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Quotes 

• Ellen Roark : Do you want me to stay?

  Jake Tyler Brigance : Yeah, I want you to stay. So you'd better go.

• Ellen Roark : I keep thinking, what would Jake do? What would my father do? What would Lucien do?

  Harry Rex Vonner : Well see, there's your problem. What you should be thinking is, what would Harry Rex do?

  Ellen Roark : What would Harry Rex do?

  Harry Rex Vonner : Cheat. Cheat like crazy.

• Freddie Lee Cobb : You can't blame a nigger for being a nigger, no more than you can blame a dog for being a dog. But a whore like you, co-mingling with mongrels, betraying your own. That makes you worse than a nigger. I'll tell you what I'll do. I'll leave you tied up here naked. First, it'll just be bugs eating at ya. One day, maybe two. That sun's gonna be cooking you. And animals... they're gonna pick on your stink. They'll come looking for something to eat.

  Ellen Roark : Carl Lee Hailey should've shot you too.

  [Freddie knocks her out] 

• Ellen Roark : Ah. Ellen Roark, brilliant law student.

  Harry Rex Vonner : Do with me as you will.

  Ellen Roark : Looking forward to it.

  Harry Rex Vonner : Okay!

• Ellen Roark : Did I mention that my father's filthy rich and I'll be working for free?

• Ellen Roark : Ever seen a man executed?

  Jake Tyler Brigance : No.

  Ellen Roark : What I suggest is you go to an execution, and see a man be killed. You watch him die, and you watch him beg!