Melissa Leo interview in The New York Times Magazine
You once said you were fired from “Homicide: Life on the Streets” after five seasons because you didn’t fit into the network’s “tight-sweater format.”
The network was never happy with Kay Howard. Breasts and females, there’s a subject we could talk about for a long, long time. How our place in the world and our sense of self is shaped by the size, shape, tone and texture of our breasts. Mine worked really good. They fed my infant.
Melissa Leo is still the best.
By the way, you owe me eleven cents.
- Bayliss: You think that there's one perfect person for each of us? I mean, what if your one true love was an Eskimo and you lived in Des Moines? And you had spent your whole life looking and looking and looking and then you never met her. Or, you did meet her, and she married another Eskimo.
- Pembleton: There are a lot of nice girls in Des Moines.
- Bayliss: Yeah, I know that Frank, but in your heart - in your heart, Frank! - you'd want the Eskimo.
- Pembleton: Finding love is like solving the perfect crime. You look at every shred of evidence. You talk to every witness, follow up every lead. But more often than not what wins in the end is just pure, dumb luck. And you, my friend? Are just not lucky. By the way, you owe me eleven cents.
Pembleton’s neckwear swagger
Where is it written a man can’t try something new every now and again?
it’s just couscous, man.
This is from s3! I think it’s one of these episodes: “Happy to Be Here,” “A Model Citizen,” or “In Search of Crimes Past.”
I just watched those 3 episodes and I couldn’t find it. Admittedly I was a little distracted, so I might have missed it. Maybe I will just watch all of season 3 again now, though… to make sure :)
(Source: oh-whiskers)
Kay and Beau interview a suspect.
- Howard: Your conscience is going to gnaw at you. Gnaw at you like a... Like a ...
- Felton: Chipmunk.
- Howard: Yeah, like a chipmunk.
“Biddle Biddle Biddle Biddle Biddle… No, no Biddle.”
Kay closes every case she gets, to Beau’s dismay.
Munch takes offense.
- Munch: You're saving your really good lies for some smarter cop, is that it? I'm just a donut in the on-deck circle. Wait until the real guy gets here. Wait until that big guy comes back. I'm probably just his secretary. I'm just Montel Williams. You want to talk to Larry King.
- Criminal: I'm telling you the truth.
- Munch: I've been murder police for ten years. If you're going to lie to me, you lie to me with RESPECT. What is it? Is it my shoes? Is it my haircut? Got a problem with my haircut? Don't you ever lie to me like I'm Montel Williams. I am not Montel Williams. I am not Montel Williams! I am not Montel Williams!
- Criminal: Who is Montel Williams?
- Munch: I'm not Montel Williams. Do you hear me, I am NOT Montel Williams!
Opening credits
