Sorkin added it for the film — not in the stage play. AFI #29. Nicholson iconic.
Jack Nicholson's volcanic courtroom eruption is one of cinema's great mic-drop moments. Ironically, the famous line isn't in Aaron Sorkin's original stage play — Sorkin added it specifically for the film. Nicholson delivered it opposite Tom Cruise in a single scene that has since been used in law school lectures about testimony, power, and rhetoric. The line ranked #29 on the AFI's greatest quotes list and is routinely cited as the best film monologue of the 1990s.
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