What is your favorite Briscoe line?
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — Jerry Orbach
Shrykespeare — 21 years ago(December 29, 2004 10:49 AM)
As an avid watcher of Law & Order since it started, I was saddened to hear about Jerry's passing. It brings to mind all of the great one-liners and sarcastic comments he made over the course of the show.
I'll open the floor to anyone out there. what is your favorite or most memorable Briscoe line? Here are a few of my favorites:
(Lennie is interviewing an attractive middle-aged woman)
Woman: Are you single, Detective Briscoe?
Lennie: Yeah, three times.
Det. Curtis: Why would anyone want to murder a divorce attorney?
Lennie: I know one that should have been
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Ruvan22 — 21 years ago(December 29, 2004 02:32 PM)
I remember one of the first episodes he had with Ray Curtis, Curtis wanted to start a fight saying, "To get respect you have to kick a little a**" and Briscoe responded "I'd have respected the hell out of them when kicked our asses!".
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ElectroMagneticStorm
5b4 — 21 years ago(December 29, 2004 04:25 PM)"I specifically asked for him to be put on suicide watch. Apparently here at Riker's that mean that they watch you commit suicide. " - Briscoe
Did you know that when Jerry was first on the show, his wisecracks were adlibbed. Only after a while, the producers agreed to make it a part of his character.
I'm going to need a hacksawJack Bauer
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superguido — 21 years ago(December 29, 2004 05:16 PM)
I have so many:
"no, we're homicide! because someone was homicided earlier?"
"i spent a year there one weekend"
"ah, love! a fatal disease curable only by marriage"
(to Det. green)"You know that report I threw at you? I need it back"
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Sanctifizzle — 17 years ago(May 12, 2008 11:23 AM)
Prolly one of my favorite lines, I dont remember the suspects name but i remember the words. The suspect was sitting on a swing with his doctor.
Green:Were here to pick up (suspects name), Who are you?
Doctor: Im (suspects name) Psychiatrist.
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MovieBookLvr — 21 years ago(January 03, 2005 01:39 PM)
I don't recall the setup for it exactly but Green says something about Lennie being a cynic about love and Lennie's reply is, "Not love, marriage!"
Jerry Orbach and Sam Waterston made the show for me. It won't be the same without Mr. Orbach.
Your hair's already such a disaster that the Red Cross wouldn't give it coffee! -
joesmith2007 — 21 years ago(January 08, 2005 05:58 PM)
Briscoe and Logan are trying to get info from a stuffy upper-crust administrator at a private school, who declared to Lennie in a huff that her 'organization' was almost a hundred years old and very respectable. Lennie replies:
"Well we belong to an even older organization, and just as respectable".
or something along those lines.
Lennie had a great capacity for equalizing the extremes of Manhatten. He could raise a "skell" by admonishing him to wisen up and have some respect for himself, then bring down an urban sophisticate and remind her of her ancestors' working class roots, all in the same episode. It was, of course, Mr. Orbach's delivery that made it all happen. God, he'll be missed.
Jerry Orbach and Sam Waterston you got that right; they ARE the show. I agree with cetheareth, Mr. Orbach is why I got hooked on the reruns,
I'm 51 and haven't had a prostate test in years (Mr. Orbach was 69); kind of scares me, so now I'm thinking maybe I better look into a checkup. Thank you Lennie
