What’s quote-unquote a ‘good’ lawyer, doctor, or whatever the profession is. And if you’re a male who grew up professionally in a male-dominated profession, then your image of what a good lawyer is a male image. – Sonia Sotomayor
Without really trying to, I’ve become a sort of jailhouse lawyer of relationships – someone who’s had to do so much work on her own case that I can now help you with yours. – Tracy McMillan
On some planet, I probably could have been a lawyer. On some planet, I could have been somebody in advertising. – Stone Gossard
When I grew up I always wanted to act. Also, I wanted to be either a lawyer or a doctor. However, when I got to college and realized what those occupations entailed, I changed my mind real quick. – Tia Mowry
Faith properly informs the religious lawyer or judge, and morality is not in tension with fidelity to the law. – William H. Pryor
I’ve always had an affinity for lawyers. My dad is a lawyer. He’s retired now. My brother is a lawyer. – Scott Bakula
A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason; if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect. – Walter Scott
In the courtroom, it’s where a lawyer really becomes an actor. There’s a very fine line between delivering a monologue in a play and delivering a monologue to a jury. I’ve always felt that way – I’ve been in a lot of courtrooms. The best lawyers are really theatrical. – Woody Harrelson
I view myself primarily as a trial lawyer who happens to be writing, as opposed to a writer who happens to be a trial lawyer, so the audience is like a jury to me. – Vincent Bugliosi
The stuff that I find really intriguing is always how do ordinary people behave in extraordinary circumstances. And that’s why we have a lot of cop shows and lawyer shows and medical shows is that you’re looking for situations that just always heighten the stakes. – Zeljko Ivanek
As a trial lawyer in front of a jury and an author of true-crime books, credibility has always meant everything to me. My only master and my only mistress are the facts and objectivity. I have no others. – Vincent Bugliosi
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. – Toby Stephens
I came from a traditional immigrant family where education meant there were only a few valid paths: doctor or lawyer – and I didn’t want to be either one. – Suheir Hammad
I’ve always had an affinity for lawyers. My dad is a lawyer. He’s retired now. My brother is a lawyer. It’s always been easy, the legalese. – Scott Bakula
I listened very, very carefully to the world around me to pick up the signals of when trouble was coming. Not that I could stop it. But it made me observant. That was helpful when I became a lawyer, because I knew how to read people’s signals. – Sonia Sotomayor
I love acting and really think that’s what I want to do. It’s weird seeing myself up there, but I’m used to it now. But otherwise, I have backups. Doctor, lawyer. – Sofia Vassilieva
Get a lawyer to look at your contract or beware. Because no company – evil or not – is going to do it for you. – Sarah Lacy
If a lawyer, if a teacher, if a bus driver, if they’re on $40,000 and they get offered a lot more to go somewhere else, what do you think they’re going to do? – Sonny Bill Williams
It was expected of all good middle-class Indian people to build India and, as you know, Indians – when we say, ‘build India,’ it was all about being an accountant, a lawyer, an engineer. So it was this idea that professionals would build the country. – Shekhar Kapur
I write novels with a lawyer as the hero, no matter how oxymoronic that might sound. – William Lashner
Nobody wants to be a lawyer – it’s hard work. But it was kind of my academic route. – Vinny Guadagnino
I really honestly can’t see myself as a lawyer. It’s pretty much safe to say I’ll never become one. – Vance Joy
I didn’t want to play a lawyer. I didn’t want to play a doctor. I didn’t want to play a single dad. I wanted to do something I felt I could learn from, something that would be a challenge and something that would not dry up. – William Petersen
Another woman approached me while I was having lunch at the Russian Tea Room in New York and told me that the reason she had become a lawyer was because she had read ‘Rage of Angels’. To me, that kind of feedback has more meaning than any sales figures. – Sidney Sheldon
I think it would be very boring dramatically to have a film where everybody was a lawyer or doctor and had no faults. To me, the most important thing is to be truthful. – Spike Lee
I may look like an American WASPy doctor or lawyer, but I feel just like Woody Allen. Don’t cast me for my looks – I have a very ironic, existential, crazy Jew in me. – Spalding Gray
I actually became a lawyer because I thought you had to be a lawyer in order to get into national politics. – Susana Martinez
