- [a group of Chinese tourists are milling around, agitated]
- Detective Lt. Provenza: Oh, Tao, thank God. Could you please tell these people to calm down and step back?
- Lieutenant Mike Tao: [shouting] Calm down and step back!
- Detective Lt. Provenza: You don't speak Chinese?
- Lieutenant Mike Tao: No, I don't. I'm fourth-generation American.
- Detective Lt. Provenza: Well, you always sound fluent when we order take-out.
- Fritz Howard: Are you feeling all right?
- Brenda Leigh Johnson: Yes, much better.
- Fritz Howard: Then stop leaving me alone with your parents. I mean it.
- Will Pope: This may surprise you, but in some cultures supervisors are still shown a modicum of respect, and employees actually try to *please* the boss, so lose the attitude. See this guy gets his damn camera back. I don't need any more grief from the Chinese consul and I *definitely* don't need it from you! Please tell me I did not just say all that in front of your parents.
- Willie Ray Johnson: [after having been on a tour that was completely in Chinesse] It wasn't hard to figure out what that tour guide was saying. She'd point to a mansion and say, "Chinese Chinese Chinese Robert Wagner," or, "Frank Sinatra Chinese Chinese Chinese."