Scott Bakula Quotes

Ironically, I come from a family of lawyers - my dad, my grandfather, and now my oldest son. And some of my very best friends are lawyers, though they don't resemble the ones that appear in my novels.

I've always had an affinity for lawyers. My dad is a lawyer. He's retired now. My brother is a lawyer.

If the laws could speak for themselves, they would complain of the lawyers.

The more lawyers there are, the more people are out there to encourage others not to go to law school.

lawyers never go to law, do they? They know better.

Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished.

My dad is an attorney. I've always been interested in it. My sons are probably going to law school.

I've had ample contact with lawyers, and I'm convinced that the only fortune they ever leave is their own.

In the old days, you would have one lawyer to handle everything: speeding tickets, buying a house, contracts, litigation, real estate, copyrights, leasing, entertainment, intellectual property, forensic accounting, criminal offenses... the list goes on. Now, you have to have a separate lawyer for each one of those categories!

I can't see that it's wrong to give him a little legal experience before he goes out to practice law.

One of the reasons I love the law is because I was raised in family - my grandfather was a lawyer, but more importantly, my grandmother was his secretary. And she taught me that lawyers were some of the most civil, most courteous - and in those days, most courtly - people that she knew.

The law as a profession has provided me with more satisfaction than I ever dreamed.

As a child, I wanted to be a lawyer because I thought lawyers and the law were wonderful. But they are more wonderful, I think, than I had thought.

My father was a lawyer. I was fascinated to become a lawyer, too.

I studied law, and I was ready to be a lawyer in my country (Italy). Probably it is better for many clients that I changed my direction! But I was happy to study and I was a good student, I finished my studies. And everything that you learn is useful in life.

Lawyers make nothing but confusion...A lawyer is an instrument of the devil. In general, he's a fiendish idiot, banking on the stupidity of people much more stupid than himself, and by God he's always right.

Lawyers serve a purpose, and we couldn't operate as society without them. They can make things more complicated and difficult, but there are certain times where the need for them is crucial to an argument or an event or an issue.

I am not afraid of lawyers as I used to be. They are lambs in wolves' clothing.

The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers.

Honestly, I have heard a lot in my 16 years as a prosecutor.

To play a lawyer and have one year of law school under your belt, you sort of know what you're talking about! I'm able to memorize the legal courtroom stuff a lot faster than I would have been able to otherwise.

Lawyers are predators in grey worsted.

The trouble with law is lawyers.

I really honestly can't see myself as a lawyer. It's pretty much safe to say I'll never become one.

I am really impressed by lawyers who write books and tell us that they never lost a case. Most lawyers who have never lost a case have not had enough hard cases. But there are very difficult cases out there.