David Boies Quotes

Some writers hate to go to trials, but I love trials.

The trial of a case is a three-legged stool - a judge and two advocates.

Courtroom dramas can be boring.

Trial. A formal inquiry designed to prove and put upon record the blameless characters of judges, advocates and jurors.

I didn't attend any of the court proceedings.

There is - you know, there's receipts for rented cars and license plates and guns and hand prints and palm prints and fingerprints. You know, I want to wait until I'm in a court.

I'm not pretending when I'm in that court room.

I agree with Scott Turow: A courtroom is inherently dramatic. You walk into court - it's like an ER, you know? Life and death is going on there. And it's moment-by-moment, and it's packed with energy. And even though you think you know what a witness is going to say, you can be wrong. Witnesses surprise you.

And, you know, like I said, I'm not looking forward to a trial.

I will go to what they call a court. Only they call it a court.

From childhood on, I did sit in the courtroom watching my father argue cases and talk to juries.

A trial deals with only a limited amount of information, considering only the evidence which is available and also admissible and which relates directly to the charges on the indictment.

A trial without witnesses, when it involves a criminal accusation, a criminal matter, is not a true trial.

I can write dramas that are about inside and outside the courtroom.

The time has come for professional jurors.

You're certain to get a decision in a trial.

I am finally glad to see that the jury is looking at me.

All sides in a trial want to hide at least some of the truth.

We rest our case on the production numbers.

I'd love to do a court-room drama. I loved 'Ally McBeal.' That was one of the main reasons I went to law school.

I think trials are inherently dramatic and interesting and are always going to be part of the news.

Life as a barrister never was terribly real to me, and courtrooms were always a place of fantasy to me. They had nothing to do with discovering the truth, really, of course.

Both sides should demand a speedy trial.

North Carolinians know what a fair trial looks like. It includes witnesses. It includes documents.

The court is where I can express something that I've got deep inside me.