Lawyers quotes

“I never lost an argument and my parents assumed I would be a lawyer. They cast me in that role.”
Jared Harris

“- Alice: You lied to me.
- Nick Styles: I didn't lie to you. I just didn't tell the whole truth.
- Alice: You're such a lawyer.”
Victoria Dillard - Alice
Denzel Washington - Nick Styles

“Criminal lawyers see bad people at their best, divorce lawyers see good people at their worst.”
Kyle Bornheimer - Ted

“You see Danny, I can deal with the bullets, and the bombs, and the blood. I don't want money, and I don't want medals. What I do want is for you to stand there in that faggoty white uniform and with your Harvard mouth extend me some fucking courtesy.”

Jack Nicholson - Col. Nathan R. Jessup

“Everyone wants Atticus Finch until there's a dead hooker in a bathtub.”

Robert Downey Jr. - Hank Palmer

“In my first year of law school everybody loved everybody else, because we were all studying the law, and the law was a noble thing. By my third year you were lucky if you weren't murdered in your sleep. People stole exams, hid research materials from the library, and lied to the professors. Such is the nature of the profession.”
Matt Damon - Rudy Baylor

“You ain’t a lawyer no more, Dave. You’re a gangster now. You’re on the other side. Whole new ball game. You can’t learn about it at school, and you can’t have a latestart.”

Al Pacino - Carlito

“There are no straight lawyers in Turkey. All bent. Bent, as happens, occupational necessity. They have special classes in corruption at night school. If you get suspected of honesty, then you get disbarred.”
Sir John Hurt - Max

“In a civil trial, all you have to prove is that they're guilty by a preponderance of the evidence. That means more likely than not. 51% is enough. It's a very low standard of proof. Completely different than the criminal trial.”
Marcia Clark - Self

“One judge is quite like another. The only differences may be in the state of their digestions or their proclivities for sleeping on the bench. For myself, I can digest pig iron. And while I might appear to doze occasionally, you will find that I am easily awakened, particularly if shaken gently by a good lawyer with a nice point of law.”
Joseph N. Welch - Judge Weaver

“As a lawyer, I've had to learn that people aren't just good or just bad. People are many things.”
James Stewart - Paul Biegler

“I'm no lawyer. All's a lawyer cares about is the law.”

“I have done an unethical thing. I have taken your cigar and I am not taking your case.”
Charles Laughton - Sir Wilfrid Roberts

“Lawyers should never marry other lawyers. This is called in-breeding; from this comes idiot children... and other lawyers.”
David Wayne - Kip Lurie

“When you can't trust the lawyers and the advertising men, what the hell's America coming to, huh?”
Frances McDormand - Mildred

“Joe, you usually know what you're doing. But it's one thing to represent Tucker legally - as his lawyer, I mean. I mean, it's the business of lawyers to protect a lot of people. They even teach that at Harvard.”
Paul McVey - Hobe Wheelock

“What am I, your cause of the month now? Couldn't get anywhere with global warming, no?”

Brendan Gleeson - Donald Horner

“The cops are like butchers, always got their thumbs on the scales, but good luck arguing that in court. Let me get down to brass tacks: I'm gonna get you a second phone call. You're gonna call your mommy or your daddy or your parish priest or your Boy Scout leader and they're gonna deliver me a check for $4,650. I'm gonna write that down on the...” (continue)(continue reading)

Bob Odenkirk - Saul Goodman

“Sworn in by a fool and vouched for by a scoundrel. I'm a lawyer at last.”
Matt Damon - Rudy Baylor

“Nothing like a districtattorney to keep a girl in shape. You and I must have a good wrestle someday.”
Myrna Loy - Eleanor

“This is a man who dedicated his life to making money by lying with every breath that he could muster to keeping murderers and rapists on the streets!”

Kevin Spacey - John Doe

“- Nicole Burnell: You and mom have a lawyer?
- Sam Burnell: Well, yes. He's your lawyer, too.
- Nicole Burnell: My lawyer. Why do I need a lawyer?
- Mary: Well maybe we shouldn't be talking about this just now, with you barely home. Aren't you hungry, honey? You want me to fix you something?
- Nicole Burnell: No. What's this lawyer business?”
Sarah Polley - Nicole Burnell
Tom McCamus - Sam Burnell
Brooke Johnson - Mary

“Ten years ago, here in Liberty, we didn't have no lawyers and we got along fine. Man killed somebody, then somebody killed him, and the marshal shot 'em all and that was the end of it.”

Henry Hull - Maj. Rufus Cobb

“- Lawyer's Secretary: Are you even injured?
- Mark: Do I look injured?
- Lawyer's Secretary: Well, we only do injuries.
- Mark: Well, I'll just go get hit by a truck and come back.”
Brad Renfro - Mark Sway

“- Mike Kattan: How does it feel, Hank? Knowing that every client you represent is guilty?
- Hank Palmer: It's fine. Innocent people can't afford me.”
David Krumholtz - Mike Kattan
Robert Downey Jr. - Hank Palmer