Leverage Quotes

[Hardison gets a gun from gang members during a fight and shoots their car before he and Eliot run away.]
Eliot: Nice job, blowing out the engine block.
Hardison: I was aiming for his leg.
[Beat]
Eliot: Gimme the gun, Hardison!

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Hardison: [about Parker] Rappelling off a building, she's okay with. But small talk, conversation? Scares her to death. It's not her thing.

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Parker: Alice made a friend!
Eliot: I'm gonna tell you this one more time. You made a friend. Not "Alice."
Parker: Oh. Cool! Do you think she'll want to go steal a painting with me?
Sophie: Start small, Parker. Try coffee.

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Sophie: You know the deliveryman with the five children?
Parker: Gay?
Sophie: Bulimic. But Trevor, the frat boy... yeah. Super gay.
Parker: What about Peggy?
Sophie: Well, yes. She is disgustingly normal. But the point is, everyone has their own Alice White. You've just given yours a name.

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Peggy: I'm starving.
Parker: Yeah, I could kill for a steak right now.
Peggy: I thought you were vegetarian.
Parker: I am. I meant... a bean steak. A steak... made of beans. Held together with soy glue.

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Sophie: We're all addicts, Nate! We're all addicted to our pasts.

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Nate: I’m sorry, are we still unclear? I’m a functioning alcoholic. Trick is to not get hung up on the “alcoholic,” really celebrate the “functioning” part of the sentence.

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Parker: [Excitedly] WE JUST STOLE AN EIGHT MILLION DOLLAR STATUE! On, like, our day off!

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Jim Sterling: [To Nate, over Parker's comm] Let's see how many birds we have in the hand. You know this is Parker's. Alec Hardison?
Soldier: [Over Hardison's comm] Accounted for, sir. And we've got the money, too.
Sterling: Marvelous. Eliot Spencer?
Eliot: [Over the comm] Hey, Sterling. I've got some dental work with your name on it. What say we hook up so I can give it to you?

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[Nate is pointing a gun at Blackpoole]
Blackpoole: Are you here to kill me, Nate?
Nate: Not tonight.
Blackpoole: Well, in that case, come in. There's shrimp. [walks away]
Nate: I do love shrimp. [tosses gun away]

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[Sophie is explaining the history of Michelangelo's David]
Nate: I know all this.
Hardison: No. No, no. See, while you are well versed in dead guy art, I myself am not. My entire criminal career is based on technology built after 1981 so I am riveted. Quite so. Please continue.

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[Parker and Hardison are in the van when Nate gets into the vault where the Davids are stored]
Parker: [in a high-pitched voice to the fake David] Look little guy! That's gonna be your new home!
Hardison: Can you please not play with the little naked man? Please?
[Later]
Parker: [clutching the fake David protectively] No, no! We can't let your ex-wife anywhere near our little naked man!

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[Hardison leaves a video message on the monitors for Sterling and his goons when they break into the Leverage offices]
Hardison: Hey, Sterling! Get. Out. Of. My. House!
[the screens switch to a countdown timer for a bomb]

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[Hardison is excited about the number of results a mark got when searching victims of a curse]
Hardison: Eliot, what does that say?
Eliot: It says 'dead'.
Hardison: That's right. Dead. D-E-D, dead.
Eliot and Nate: D-E-A-D!
Hardison: I know that… I know… I know how to spell 'dead,' dammit! I can steal a bank, I can spell 'dead'!

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Sterling: [to Nate, after the con] Of course, you know your entire plan depended on me being a self-serving, utter bastard.
Nate: [smirks] Yeah, that's a stretch.

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Maggie: You actually expect this to work?
Hardison: No, you're supposed to say 'Wow, that's just crazy enough to work!'
Sophie: Incredibly, chance does seem to bend itself to his bizarre mechinations.
Parker: [whispering to Maggie] That's his superpower. [sniffs Maggie's shoulder]

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Nate: Grifter, hitter, hacker, thief. You were all trying to solve your version of the crime instead of just trying to solve the crime. There’s a reason we work together.

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Maggie Collins: [Punching Blackpoole]Screw therapy!

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[Parker walks out of Nate's kitchen dressed as a nun]
Eliot: She's dressed that way 'cause she's doing a con.
Nate: What, you thought she was dressed like a nun for no reason?
Eliot: It's Parker.
Nate: Ah. Fair enough.

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Parker: So what are the chances that Eliot's crotch explodes?

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Nate: Now if you'll excuse me, I am gonna go call a professional killer who tried to murder me and arrange to meet him in an isolated location.

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[After the con takes a bad turn]
Parker: Oh! They're probably gonna shoot Nate in the the face!
Nate: Parker, you know I can still hear you.

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Zoe: There are wolves in the world. That's what Dad says. 'Be careful, Zoe. There are wolves in the world.'
Nate: He's not wrong.

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[Sophie posing as a producer meets with the guy they're trying to hook]
Rucker: What event are you here to produce?
[Sophie hesitates, Hardison hurriedly looks up local events, speaking in her earpiece]
Hardison: On it. Tractor pull in Grand Island…livestock show in Council Bluffs…white people doing other white people things…

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[Nate, Sophie, and Eliot leave the meeting she had with their mark]
Nate: Trianna. Really.
Hardison: [through earpiece] Hey man, you're lucky I didn't give you a monster truck rally on an Indian reservation.
Eliot: Now what?
Nate: We have to hook this guy and convince him that Sophie is the real deal.
Eliot: How are we going to do that?
Nate: Let's go steal us a concert.

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[after they've been found out by their mark]
Hardison: Look, you know what I can do? I can re-task a satellite. I can get a level-three NSA clearance. But I can't hack a hick.

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Parker: So what do we do now?
Nate: Well, I just sent Eddie to the hospital. So let's go steal us a hospital.

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Parker: So let me get this straight. You're a doctor.
Nate: Yeah.
Parker: What if someone asks you to deliver a baby?
Nate: I'd say I'm not an obstetrician.
Parker: What, a what?
Nate: A baby doctor.
Parker: Well, what if there's a train accident and there's stretchers everywhere and someone points to you and says 'Hey you! Help me with this sucking chest wound!'
Nate: I'd stick my hand in the chest and hope for the best.
Parker: Oh, you are so not operating on me.

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[as Parker and Nathan watch on a computer monitor, the team's mark develops a spontaneous nosebleed]
Parker: Did you just give a guy a nosebleed with the power of your mind?

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Parker: Is it just me, or has Nate gotten even more sadistic since he stopped drinking?
Sophie: Is it just me, [grins] or does that make him even more attractive?

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