“When you can't trust the lawyers and the advertising men, what the hell's America coming to, huh?”
Frances McDormand - Mildred

“A lawyer has a duty to his profession and to himself.”
James Stephenson - Howard Joyce

“- Ordell Robbie: This you and me talking, is this like a lawyer-client thing, and you can't repeat nothing I tell you?
- Max Cherry: You're not my client until you get busted and I bond you out.”
Samuel L. Jackson - Ordell Robbie
Robert Forster - Max Cherry

“- Jack Lawrence: He was lying to me, but he made me feel good.
- Carrie Lawrence: What do you mean he lied to you?
- Jack Lawrence: Lied right to my face. Big-time lie.
- Carrie Lawrence: How do you know?
- Jack Lawrence: I'm a lawyer. People lie to me all the time.”
Billy Crystal - Jack Lawrence
Julia Louis-Dreyfus - Carrie Lawrence

“- Hammond: We're going to open next year. That is, if the lawyers don't kill me first. I don't care for lawyers, do you?
- Grant: We don't really know any.
- Hammond: Well I do, I'm afraid. There's a particular pebble in my shoe, represents my investors. Says that they insist on outside opinions.”
Richard Attenborough - Hammond
Sam Neill - Grant