Lawyers quotes

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

“Joe, you usually know what you're doing. But it's one thing to represent Tucker legally - as his lawyer, I mean. I mean, it's the business of lawyers to protect a lot of people. They even teach that at Harvard.”
Paul McVey - Hobe Wheelock

“What am I, your cause of the month now? Couldn't get anywhere with global warming, no?”

Brendan Gleeson - Donald Horner

“Sworn in by a fool and vouched for by a scoundrel. I'm a lawyer at last.”
Matt Damon - Rudy Baylor

“Nothing like a district attorney to keep a girl in shape. You and I must have a good wrestle someday.”
Myrna Loy - Eleanor

“This is a man who dedicated his life to making money by lying with every breath that he could muster to keeping murderers and rapists on the streets!”

Kevin Spacey - John Doe

“- Nicole Burnell: You and mom have a lawyer?
- Sam Burnell: Well, yes. He's your lawyer, too.
- Nicole Burnell: My lawyer. Why do I need a lawyer?
- Mary: Well maybe we shouldn't be talking about this just now, with you barely home. Aren't you hungry, honey? You want me to fix you something?
- Nicole Burnell: No. What's this lawyer business?”
Sarah Polley - Nicole Burnell
Tom McCamus - Sam Burnell
Brooke Johnson - Mary

“Ten years ago, here in Liberty, we didn't have no lawyers and we got along fine. Man killed somebody, then somebody killed him, and the marshal shot 'em all and that was the end of it.”

Henry Hull - Maj. Rufus Cobb

“- Lawyer's Secretary: Are you even injured?
- Mark: Do I look injured?
- Lawyer's Secretary: Well, we only do injuries.
- Mark: Well, I'll just go get hit by a truck and come back.”
Brad Renfro - Mark Sway

“- Mike Kattan: How does it feel, Hank? Knowing that every client you represent is guilty?
- Hank Palmer: It's fine. Innocent people can't afford me.”
David Krumholtz - Mike Kattan
Robert Downey Jr. - Hank Palmer

“- Lt. Sam Weinberg: Cmdr. Galloway, Lt. Kaffee is considered to be the best litigator in our office. He successfully plea bargained 44 cases in 9 months.
- Lt. Daniel Kaffee: One more and I get a set of steak knives.”
Kevin Pollak - Lt. Sam Weinberg
Tom Cruise - Lt. Daniel Kaffee

“- Judge: Mr. Kane, you are one of the worst lawyers I've ever known.
- Norman Kane: Well, then I move for a mistrial.”
Stacy Keach Sr. - Judge
Eugene Levy - Norman Kane

“- Edward Lewis: What makes you think I'm a lawyer?
- Vivian Ward: You have that sharp, useless look about you.”
Richard Tiffany Gere - Edward Lewis
Julia Roberts - Vivian Ward

“Remember, I'm a lawyer. I've got friends in hell.”
Cliff De Young - Marty

“Truth is like shit, it stinks badly and we have to get rid of it fast.”
Judd Lormand - Lawyer

“You know who they always kill first? Lawyers.”

Josh Duhamel - William Lennox

“Nigger, negro, black, African-american, no matter how you see me, you see me different, you see me like that jury sees me, you are them. Now throw out your points of law, Jake. If you was on that jury, what would it take to convince you to set me free? That's how you save my ass. That's how you save us both.”

Samuel L. Jackson - Carl Lee Hailey

“Divorce is a game played by lawyers.”
Cary Grant

- Ben: I didn't kill Emily.
- Abrams: Any good lawyer will tell you "Doesn't matter".
Josh Duhamel - Ben Cahill
Al Pacino - Charles Abrams

“- Bob Grimes: I don't have a lot of time. I'm in the middle of a trial.
- John Vukovich: What kind of trial?
- Bob Grimes: It's a dope case. Client got busted smuggling fifty pounds of cocaine. I should be able to get him off, though. Search warrant's weak.
- John Vukovich: Weak?
- Bob Grimes: Color of the house is listed as brown in the warrant...” (continue)(continue reading)
Dean Stockwell - Bob Grimes
John Pankow - John Vukovich

“Every lawyer, at least once in every case, feels himself crossing a line that he doesn't really mean to cross. It just happens, and if you cross it enough times it disappears forever. And then you're nothing but another lawyer joke. Just another shark in the dirty water.”
Matt Damon - Rudy Baylor

“- Dr. Irving Finegarten: You look like an anemic turtle.
- Polly Reed: You're gonna let that shyster on?
- Dr. Irving Finegarten: I could sue you for calling me that, Polly! A shyster is a disreputable lawyer. I'm a quack!”
Robert Preston - Dr. Irving Finegarten
Loretta Swit - Polly Reed

“There's no client as scary as an innocent man.”
Marisa Tomei - Maggie McPherson

“- Meg Magrath: So how are things with you, Babe?
- Chick Boyle: Things are dismal if you want my opinion. She's refusing to cooperate with her lawyer, that nice looking young Lloyd boy, and she won't tell any of us why she's committed this heinous crime.”

Jessica Lange - Meg Magrath
Tess Harper - Chick Boyle

“- Kate McQuean: Do you know how they call a Florida cop in a three-piece suit?
- Det. Max Kirkpatrick: No. What?
- Kate McQuean: The defendant!”
Cindy Crawford - Kate McQuean
William Baldwin - Det. Max Kirkpatrick