Lawyers quotes

“- Bill Gambini: You have to see the Gambinis in action. I mean, these people, they love to argue. I mean, they live to argue.
- Stan Rothenstein: My parents argue too, it doesn't make them good lawyers.
- Bill Gambini: Stan, I've seen your parents argue. Trust me, they're amateurs.”
Ralph Macchio - Bill Gambini

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

“- Roland Michell: What do you charge an hour? Roughly.
- Fergus Wolfe: Oh uh, I don't know, 500.
- Roland Michell: Pounds? Jesus! No wonder you have a nice hallway.
- Fergus: Thank you.
- Roland Michell: Okay, I want to buy 7 minutes of attorney-client privilege, right now.”
Aaron Eckhart - Roland Michell
Toby Stephens - Fergus Wolfe

“- Robert Reynard: Why did I think I could reason with a man who defends coke pushers for free?
- Eddie Dodd: No, no: Coke dealers pay cash! That subsidizes the pot possession cases; they're free!”
Kurtwood Smith - Robert Reynard
James Woods - Eddie Dodd

“- Louis Tully: Your Honor, ladies and gentleman of the audience, I don't think it's fair to call my clients frauds. Sure, the blackout was a big problem for everybody. I was trapped in an elevator for two hours and I had to make the whole time. But I don't blame them. Because one time, I turned into a dog and they helped me. Thank you.
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Rick Moranis - Louis Tully
Harold Ramis - Dr. Egon Spengler

“I got nothin'. I got nobody. I don't need a lawyer, I need a friend.”
Kevin Bacon - Henri Young

“- Gordo: What Jammer needs is a good shyster.
- Lana: Barkley's father's a shyster! And a lawyer.”
Albert Insinnia - Gordo
Kimberly Beck - Lana

“- Felix Ungar: You got a lawyer?
- Oscar Madison: Yeah, in Florida. He's 92. It takes him six hours to walk to the telephone. Case will be over.”
Jack Lemmon - Felix Ungar
Walter Matthau - Oscar Madison

“When me and my mom went into court to buy our divorce our lawyer sucked as usual, so I went up there and told the judge myself about all the beatings, about how he made us sleep in the street. And that's when my father became my ex-father, and now I got you, and you're a drunk and a bad lawyer too! So now I'm gettin' rid of you, you're fired, okay?”

Brad Renfro - Mark Sway

“- Libby: Do you think I killed him?
- Bobby: That's the first rule of being a lawyer. What we think doesn't matter.”

Ashley Judd - Libby
Jay Brazeau - Bobby

“- Arnie: He keeps telling us you're going to make a great lawyer.
- Arthur Kirkland: I wish he could remember that I am a lawyer.
- Arnie: Sometimes he does, sometimes he doesn't, what's it matter? He's still proud of you.”

Sam Levene - Arnie
Al Pacino - Arthur Kirkland

“- Alex: I won't say a single solitary slovo unless I have my lawyer here. I know the law, you bastards.
- Police Inspector: We'll have to show our little friend Alex here that we know the law too, but that knowing the law isn't everything.”
Malcom McDowell - Alex (A Clockwork Orange)
Lindsay Campbell - Police Inspector

“- Roger Baron: You were my age when you defended that case.
- Eddie Dodd: I was never your age.”
Robert Downey Jr. - Roger Baron
James Woods - Eddie Dodd

“- Father: Are you ill, Russell-James?
- Rusty James: I got cut up in a knife fight.
- Father: Yeah, really.
- Rusty James: Yeah.
- Father: Yep, really. Strange lives you two lead.
- Rusty James: Strange? At least I'm not a lawyer on welfare.”
Dennis Hopper - Father
Matt Dillon - Rusty James

“- Aunt Pristine Figg: Lickboot, what are doing? You're going to lose them.
- Lickboot: Don't worry. Now I know where they're going. We're taking a short cut.
- Aunt Pristine Figg: You know where they're? How do you know?
- Lickboot: Lawyers know everything.”

Charlotte Rae - Aunt Pristine Figg
Tony Jay - Lickboot

“I'm Mr. Juntao's lawyer, legal advisor, he got into some shit again and he told me to come down here and I'm a very busy man, ain't got time to be down here this late but I'm down here, my wife want me to come home, my baby is shittin' all over the house, he needs diapers, would you please go get Mr. Juntao?”
Chris Tucker - Carter

“- Lt. Peter Handcock: New South Wales Mounted? What sort of a lawyer are you?
- Major J.F. Thomas: They haven't locked me up, yet. What sort of a soldier are you?”
Bryan Brown - Lt. Peter Handcock
Jack Thompson - Major J.F. Thomas

“You know what I say. Whenever you got business trouble the best thing to do is to get a lawyer. Then you got more trouble, but at least you got a lawyer.”
Chico Marx - Antonio Pirelli

“- Kirby Keger: It's true love, my friend.
- Kevin Dolenz: Love, love, you know what love is? Love is an illusion created by lawyer types like yourself to perpetuate another illusion called marriage to create the reality of divorce and then the illusionary need for divorce lawyers.”
Emilio Estevez - Kirby Keger
Andrew McCarthy - Kevin Dolenz

First thing that I ask a new client is, "Have you been saving up for a rainy day? Guess what? It's raining!".

Richard Tiffany Gere - Martin Vail

“- Michael Corleone: What's wrong with being a lawyer?
- Kay Adams Michelson: Nothing, except he doesn't want it. He loves music he wants his life to be in music.
- Michael Corleone: Well, music is great. I love music but he should finish what he started.”

Al Pacino - Michael Corleone
Diane Keaton - Kay Adams Michelson

"What do you call 500 lawyers at the bottom of the ocean? An excellent start”. I used to resent jokes like that. Now I see them as simple truths.
Danny DeVito - Gavin D'Amato

“- Andrew Beckett: What do you call a thousand lawyers chained together at the bottom of the ocean?
- Joe Miller: [amused,sitting next to him on the hospital bed] I don't know.
- Andrew Beckett: A good start.”

Tom Hanks - Andrew Beckett
Denzel Washington - Joe Miller

“- Lindy Krane: I wanna be a lawyer, just like mommy.
- Dr. David Krane: I thought you wanted to be a doctor, like me.
- Lindy Krane: No, lawyers make more money...”
Colleen Rennison - Lindy Krane
Ray Liotta - David Krane

“He's a prick. He's a racist and an anti-Semite and a prick.”

Lee Richardson - Leo Bloomenfeld