Well, I don't know as I want a lawyer to tell me what I cannot do. I hire him to tell how to do what I want to do.
A lawyer's either a social engineer or he's a parasite on society.
You don't need lawyers making laws. Regular citizens can make laws. Let the lawyers work under the laws.
Temperamentally, Sam and I are very much alike. He's a lawyer, my father's a lawyer, and I always wanted to play one. On so many levels the role just felt right. I fell in love with it as I would a woman.
A lawyer who is not a social engineer, is a social parasite.
People do not win people fights. Lawyers do.
I wanted to be a lawyer. I realized I don't really want to be a lawyer. I want to play a lawyer. Thank God I figured that out.
Lawyers are men whom we hire to protect us from lawyers.
As a public interest lawyer, your fund of injustice will never be empty.
Lawyers claim that their clients have been grossly mistreated, which is what criminal defense lawyers are paid to do.
I wanted to play the part that Mary Kay played, the lawyer who wanted to have baby and felt her clock ticking, because it was something I could relate to.
In the last analysis, our every right is only worth what our lawyer makes it worth.