Well, I don't know as I want a lawyer to tell me what I cannot do. I hire him to tell how to do what I want to do.
A lawyer's either a social engineer or he's a parasite on society.
You don't need lawyers making laws. Regular citizens can make laws. Let the lawyers work under the laws.
Temperamentally, Sam and I are very much alike. He's a lawyer, my father's a lawyer, and I always wanted to play one. On so many levels the role just felt right. I fell in love with it as I would a woman.
A lawyer who is not a social engineer, is a social parasite.
People do not win people fights. Lawyers do.
I wanted to be a lawyer. I realized I don't really want to be a lawyer. I want to play a lawyer. Thank God I figured that out.
Lawyers are men whom we hire to protect us from lawyers.
Lawyers claim that their clients have been grossly mistreated, which is what criminal defense lawyers are paid to do.
In the last analysis, our every right is only worth what our lawyer makes it worth.
As a public interest lawyer, your fund of injustice will never be empty.
I wanted to play the part that Mary Kay played, the lawyer who wanted to have baby and felt her clock ticking, because it was something I could relate to.