Laura Linney Quotes

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

I didn't attend any of the court proceedings.

For every criminal case, the judge must construct a perfect syllogism: the major premise must be the general law; the minor premise, whether or not the action in question is in compliance with the law; and the conclusion, acquittal or punishment.

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.

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

I knew I was coming home, I thought they would consider acquittal, I was disappointed that they didn't.

Both sides should demand a speedy trial.

The time has come for professional jurors.

The court is like a palace of marble; it's composed of people very hard and very polished.

When I walk into a courtroom, I feel like I'm home.

I grew up in a courtroom kind of like the one you saw in 'To Kill a Mockingbird' - big, big courtroom, sometimes it didn't even have air conditioning.

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

A trial is a powerful vehicle to explain things. It is the most time that anybody spends really thinking about one thing. Unless you are the analyst on the National Security staff that's assigned to monitor Putin, and that's all you do, day in and day out, very few people ever spend the time on a single subject that is spent during trial.

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.

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

The judge turned his back towards me, sitting back on his judge's chair, while I was in the witness stand being questioned. The whole courtroom was full of these anarchists, leftists, communists and Jewish lobbyists.

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

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