JUDGE LITTLEFIELD: What’s your name, Bailiff?! BAILIFF…

I think anything that anyone writes thats any good is going to have a lot of autobiography.

— Stephen Adly Guirgis

“JUDGE LITTLEFIELD (re: the writ): Cunningham, I do not like it when lawyers go over my head. CUNNINGHAM: You gave me no choice. EL-FAYOUMY:…

— Stephen Adly Guirgis

“Oh, just some crap about the essential paradox of man: How we refuse to juxtapose the absolute to the relative, and some other some-such…

— Stephen Adly Guirgis

“What is it that we need to overcome in order to truly be “Ourselves”?”

— Stephen Adly Guirgis

“I do know that I am in continuous need of the Spiritual and that I usually go to great lengths to avoid it.”

— Stephen Adly Guirgis

“JUDGE LITTLEFIELD: Good. Now, when I come to court dressed as Ethel Merman in a one-piece bathing suit, that’ll be my signal to you…

— Stephen Adly Guirgis

I had just done something in TV, but my real love is theater. I had won this award and I was up at Yale,…

— Stephen Adly Guirgis

“Thomas Merton said, “To be a saint means to be myself.”

— Stephen Adly Guirgis

“CUNNINGHAM:—Your Honor, I cite the Beatitudes, and Kierkegaard. I cite Christ on the Cross! JUDGE LITTLEFIELD: I cite my foot in your ass, Cunningham!”

— Stephen Adly Guirgis

I've lived with women, loved women, lost women. They've loved me, lost me, whatever.

— Stephen Adly Guirgis

“MARY MAGDALENE: I also knew Judas Iscariot very well. SAINT MONICA: Gangsta!”

— Stephen Adly Guirgis

“Do you know who W.H. Auden was, Mr. Iscariot? W.H. Auden was a poet who once said, “God may reduce you on Judgement Day…

— Stephen Adly Guirgis

“JUDGE LITTLEFIELD: Your client is Judas Iscariot! Your client sold out the son of God, for Chrissakes!”

— Stephen Adly Guirgis

One way to make a positive out of a negative is that you can put it into your work.

— Stephen Adly Guirgis

“The synthesis of Love and Justice can produce only Mercy and Forgiveness, Your Honor! If a just God sits in Heaven, it can fall…

— Stephen Adly Guirgis