Lawyer Quotes - page 12

I've raised three kids. I'm a lawyer. I've written books on the Constitution. (Caroline Kennedy)
A lot of people probably don't realize how difficult it is to stick to that lawyer speak when you're not a lawyer. I see everyone on 'The Good Wife' - everyone, people who have been there since day one - struggling with that language because it is just not how people talk. View quote
Carrie Preston
My parents wanted me to be a doctor, and they weren't very happy at the idea of me choosing acting as a career. Everyone in my family went to university - my older brother is a lawyer - but when they saw me for the first time at the theatre, they thought, 'OK.' They like it very much now. View quote
Caterina Murino
I wanted to be a leading man - the black lawyer, the black doctor, the black policeman. View quote
David Alan Grier
Obviously I'm a lawyer; I like to have cases. View quote
David Boies
I know a lawyer who'd love to retire and be an assistant coach. I mean, it's fun. View quote
Dean Smith
The Tort Tax adds to the cost of everything we buy because businesses and manufacturers have to cover themselves and their employees - just in case they get sued by a greedy personal injury lawyer. View quote
Dennis Hastert
My father wasn't absolutely delighted. He wanted me to become a lawyer. I studied law, but I thought the shoe business was more exciting. View quote
Diego Della Valle
I was always curious about the anxiety a person would feel when you open your mouth and you have an accent. You could have a Ph.D. or be a lawyer, but as soon as you say something, you may be diminished in the eyes of someone else. View quote
Dinaw Mengestu
The camera fails to capture the 'business' in show business! We typically will give 10 percent of our salary to the agent, 10 percent to the manager, and 5 percent to the lawyer, plus the publicist gets a flat fee, which needs to be budgeted for. View quote
Danica McKellar
Let's face it: the present self is present. It's in control. It's in power right now. It has these strong, heroic arms that can lift doughnuts into your mouth. And the future self is not even around. It's off in the future. It's weak. It doesn't even have a lawyer present. (Daniel Goldstein)
I'm a recovering lawyer. The practice of law has changed. Every agreement is a fight. View quote
Elizabeth Edwards
I grew up in Queens, in New York City, in a middle class Jewish family. My mother was a public school teacher, my father was a lawyer. They were Democrats - kind of middle-of-the-road democrats. View quote
Elliott Abrams
I've wanted to be an actor for such a long time that I haven't had anything else in my thoughts. I think my family would have quite liked me to be a lawyer. View quote
Ed Speleers
Dean had just come from seeing his lawyer. That was the first time that I found out that he had consulted a lawyer. He wanted to tell me what he thought was going on, but he was writing it down as if my house was bugged. He acted like everything was bugged. View quote
Fred F. Fielding
I really did try to write it so that an educated public that cares about issues like this doesn't have to be a lawyer and can read it and understand it. View quote
Floyd Abrams
My parents would have loved it if my brother or I had become a doctor or lawyer. View quote
Gabriel Macht
I never pursued anything but acting. But as a kid, I was really interested in the Supreme Court. I wanted to to be a Supreme Court justice, but didn't want to be a lawyer. I just wanted to go straight to being a justice. View quote
Gillian Jacobs
People go to restaurants for so many different reasons. To court a girl, to make some deal. Maybe to talk to some lawyer about how to get an alimony settlement better than they got last week. View quote
Gay Talese
Even when I'm playing a lawyer or a doctor, I want to play a person. A human being. View quote
J. August Richards
I was originally going to be a lawyer, and the only thing I remember from the art of cross-examination is - you can see this one coming up Sixth Avenue - never ask a question the answer to which you do not know. (James Lipton)
If you're a doctor or a lawyer or teacher, if you only get three things right out of 10, you're considered a failure. View quote
Jamie Moyer
I never lost an argument and my parents assumed I would be a lawyer. They cast me in that role. View quote
Jared Harris
There were some super-lean years, yeah. I'm six feet four. And I entered into this period all of a sudden when I was too big to play a kid and I was too young to play an adult. Like, I couldn't play the lawyer, but I couldn't play the high school kid anymore. View quote
Jason Segel
As a private lawyer, I could bill $750 an hour, but I don't. View quote
Jay Sekulow