Alexei Sayle Quotes

I'd probably say to my younger self, get yourself a whole collection of lawyers. Which is what I have now.

The president, just as any other American, deserves a legal defense against personal lawsuits not related to his office. But the costs of that defense should be borne by him and not the taxpayer.

Money differs from an automobile or mistress in being equally important to those who have it and those who do not.

Listen, it's very easy not to be ripped off, you know. Get yourself a lawyer.

The Negro lawyer must be trained as a social engineer and group interpreter. Due to the Negro's social and political condition ... the Negro lawyer must be prepared to anticipate, guide and interpret his group advancement.... Moreover, he must act as business advisor ... for the protection of the scattered resources possessed or controlled by the group.... He must provide more ways and means for holding within the group the income now flowing through it.

I've tried to make it a thing where they, somebody in WWE, needs me or wants me there. And if I do my job well, it becomes a thing, and I just try to make it a reality, I guess. And I'm just trying not to get released.

I hate talking about class, but the truth is as an actor you're only going to be doing some really great work if you can afford to be out of work and take the good stuff. If you can't, you're going to be treading quite a different path.

In our country, [habeas corpus ] means that if you've been sentenced and convicted in a state court, either to death or to some other kind of sentence, you have the right to petition a federal court to review what happened to you. And until [Bill] Clinton, you had three, four, five, even more years I collect records of people who have been on death row for eight, 10, 12, 14 years - this is before Clinton - who finally got a decent lawyer, usually a pro bono lawyer, and an investigator, and were able to find out - they - they're but approved that they're - that they were innocent.

I think I become close to the people that I work with.

I got a Swede lawyer?!? She's gonna get everything!

Without alcohol I'd be richer by two million dollars that went to pay lawyer's fees.

I bought my parents a home before they died, and they got to see that I was going to be all right. They always thought I would go someplace.

If I had that kind of money, I wouldn't come to Vietnam, I'd send for it.

The rich live hand-to-mouth too-just on a higher level.

There's a big difference between having relatives who have money and actually having it yourself. Just because you have a cousin who has a lot of money doesn't mean he shares it with you. Or that you'd ask him for a loan.

Research by Donald A. Redelmeier and Sheldon M. Singh has found that, on average, Oscar winners live nearly four years longer than nominees that don't win.

I don't have close relationships with agents. They're friends, but they're not confidants.

Poverty hath slain a thousand, but riches have slain ten thousand. They are very uncertain, they promise that which they cannot perform, neither can they afford a contented mind.

[My son] will have a fairly stable future. Not one where the schoolyard talk is whose father grossed $8 million on his last picture.

Got a budget for the lawyer though.

For me, I look at the faces of my kids and I think about the future that is going to await them and whether they're going to not just have the financial resources to be prepared for the challenge, but whether they're going to have the strength and the stamina to live healthier, longer lives so that they can see their kids and grandkids. That's the legacy I hope to see, and it can have nothing to do with me and I'd be perfectly happy.

That rich guy you've been seeing, must have put you down. Welcome back baby, to the poor side of town.

If you had enough money, you could hardly commit crimes at all. You just perpetrated amusing little peccadilloes.

Riches are of little avail in many of the calamities to which mankind are liable.

He that hath money in his purse cannot want a head for his shoulders.