James Lipton Quotes

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

Nobody wants to be a lawyer - it's hard work. But it was kind of my academic route.

The events of the day inspired me to become a lawyer.

I don't really know why I went to law school.

My family is all lawyers. Most people when they come on shows like this, "I'm proud of the first member of my family to get a college education."

I was raised with Eddie Fisher as a father and Connie Stevens as a mother. It was sort of hard for me to pick anything else, because this was the life I knew.

I had been active in various bar associations ever since I was a law student, and I think that also helped because it made me more of a known quantity.

I suppose that when I'm building a character, it's usually related to what their family is like and who their parents are, as well as how I grew up - that nurture side.

I wasn't going to be an actor. I was going to be a lawyer. I came from a family just above working class, just below middle class, a great family of wonderful values. The idea of me having a chance for a law degree was enticing. Enticing to me but also very enticing to my family.

I was quite convinced that I didn't want to be a lawyer. But I felt that law school would be a useful way to understand public policy and to understand business in this environment.

No one else in my family works in the fashion industry.

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

I had a very good friend who was two years older than I was, and she was in law school, and she said, 'It's a great thing to do when you have no idea what you want to do.' And she was right. I learned a lot, I practiced law for 10 years. I've never looked back once I stopped practicing law, but it was a really good experience.

I studied law, so perhaps I might have made it to the Bar, though I gave up that idea when I suspected playing a barrister was probably much more fun than being one.

The law seemed to be always what I came back to. I have never, one day in my life as a lawyer, regretted my decision to become a lawyer.

I thought law school was more like the guillotine. I didn't really think I would make it; I just thought this is one of the few ways to potentially get respect, to go to law school.

I am a Yale Law School graduate.

My parents wanted me to be a lawyer.

The course I teach, Professional Responsibility, was brought into law-school curriculums and required by most states for admission to the bar beginning in the 1970s.

I grew up in a middle-class family. I went to law school.

When I was born, mom wasn't doing films at all, so I was never exposed that much to the world of acting.

I think probably all of my determination and eagerness to want to play professional sport came from my family.

Before I ever got into coaching, I got my law degree at Pepperdine.

I had gone to law school thinking that I would do something in the service of black people.

I want to study law.