Latino people have come up to me and said they were motivated to become a lawyer because they saw me play one on TV - and you can't discount how great it is when they tell me I was the first.
Inside every lawyer is the wreck of a poet.
When I'm clean-shaven and bathed, I look like a lawyer.
I used to want to be a lawyer, but I didn't want to have half my brain sucked out.
As for lawyers, it's more fun to play one than to be one.
In the view of some people, you can only believe in civil rights if you work as a civil rights lawyer. I just don't buy that.
Unless you are a lawyer or Fortune 500 CEO, carrying a briefcase is, well, nerdy.
When I was little, I thought about becoming a lawyer like my parents, and my mother would always tell me, "You can do anything you want - except be a lawyer."
Crocodiles have a smile I've seen on the face of every lawyer I've ever met.
When I was a young lawyer, working women wore hats. It was the only way they would take you seriously.
I would love to be in a Jimmy McGovern drama on TV, but there is no way he would ever ask me unless it would be to play a lawyer or something.
Lawyers are men whom we hire to protect us from lawyers.
Some men are heterosexual and some men are bisexual and some men don't think about sex at all ... you know, they become lawyers.
A judge is just a lawyer who somebody's blessed.
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 remember in high school thinking that I wanted to be a lawyer, and now I realize I saw that movie 'And Justice for All' when I was a kid and thought, 'That's what lawyers do, and I want to get up and yell and scream in the middle of a courtroom.'
To be a lawyer was too boring for me, for my personality.
All my life, I call myself wanting to be a lawyer because of Clair Huxtable. But the real dream was to be an actress.
The theory of objectivism claims that there are certain things that most people in society can agree upon. A model is pretty. A lawyer is smart. Our society is based upon objectivism. It’s how we make rules and why we obey them.
There is a vague popular belief that lawyers are necessarily dishonest. I say vague, because when we consider to what extent confidence and honors are reposed in and conferred upon lawyers by the people, it appears improbable that their impression of dishonesty is very distinct and vivid. Yet the impression is common, almost universal.
I began wearing hats as a young lawyer because it helped me to establish my professional identity. Before that, whenever I was at a meeting, someone would ask me to get coffee.
