Lawyer Quotes

‘I busted a mirror and got seven years bad luck, but my lawyer thinks he can get me five.’ – Steven Wright

‘The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind; the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity.’ – Arthur Schopenhauer

‘The power of the lawyer is in the uncertainty of the law.’ – Jeremy Bentham

‘Make crime pay. Become a lawyer.’ – Will Rogers

‘It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.’ – Edmund Burke

‘Being a lawyer is not merely a vocation. It is a public trust, and each of us has an obligation to give back to our communities.’ – Janet Reno

‘Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.’ – Abraham Lincoln

‘A lawyer with his briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns.’ – Mario Puzo

‘A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.’ – Robert Frost

‘There is no better way of exercising the imagination than the study of law. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth.’ – Jean Giraudoux

‘He is no lawyer who cannot take two sides.’ – Charles Lamb

‘God works wonders now and then; Behold a lawyer, an honest man.’ – Benjamin Franklin

‘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

‘Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.’ – Robert Louis Stevenson

‘A Lawyer will do anything to win a case, sometimes he will even tell the truth.’ – Patrick Murray

‘I’m a lawyer; I win arguments for a living.’ – Bob Goff

‘Finding a good barber is like finding a good lawyer – you gotta go to the same guy.’ – Ronny Chieng

‘It’s every lawyer’s dream to help shape the law, not just react to it.’ – Alan Dershowitz

‘Deceive not thy physician, confessor, nor lawyer.’ – George Herbert

‘The main business of a lawyer is to take the romance, the mystery, the irony, the ambiguity out of everything he touches.’ – Antonin Scalia

‘Everyone wants to say they hate lawyers, and yet I’ve never met a parent who didn’t want their kid to be a lawyer.’ – Jessi Klein

‘I have a loyalty that runs in my bloodstream, when I lock into someone or something, you can’t get me away from it because I commit that thoroughly. That’s in friendship, that’s a deal, that’s a commitment. Don’t give me paper – I can get the same lawyer who drew it up to break it. But if you shake my hand, that’s for life.’ – Jerry Lewis

‘If you can manipulate news, a judge can manipulate the law. A smart lawyer can keep a killer out of jail, a smart accountant can keep a thief from paying taxes, a smart reporter could ruin your reputation- unfairly.’ – Mario Cuomo

‘Time is money, especially when you are talking to a lawyer or buying a commercial.’ – Frank Dane

‘A good lawyer is going to try to protect her client.’ – John Kennedy

‘War is the statesman’s game, the priest’s delight, the lawyer’s jest, the hired assassin’s trade.’ – Percy Bysshe Shelley

‘As a lawyer and a former prosecutor, I know the limits of the power and authority of the president. I know what is legal and what is not.’ – Rodrigo Duterte

‘I’m not sure I can say there is a clean line between me as an individual and me as a lawyer.’ – Anita Hill

‘Well, I don’t know as I want a lawyer to tell me what I cannot do. I hire him to tell how to do what I want to do.’ – J. P. Morgan

‘I am a lawyer by profession.’ – Kapil Sibal

‘To be a lawyer was too boring for me, for my personality.’ – Monica Bellucci

‘The lawyer’s truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency.’ – Henry David Thoreau

‘From your confessor, lawyer and physician, hide not your case on no condition.’ – John Harington

‘When I came to Johannesburg from the countryside, I knew nobody, but many strangers were very kind to me. I then was dragged into politics, and then, subsequently, I became a lawyer.’ – Nelson Mandela

‘Going to trial with a lawyer who considers your whole life-style a Crime in Progress is not a happy prospect.’ – Hunter S. Thompson

‘I wanted to be a lawyer. Then a journalist. Actually, I graduated from university as a journalist.’ – Hugh Jackman

‘The two most frightening words in Washington are ‘bipartisan consensus.’ Bipartisan consensus is when my doctor and my lawyer agree with my wife that I need help.’ – P. J. O’Rourke

‘Your attitude will go a long way in determining your success, your recognition, your reputation and your enjoyment in being a lawyer.’ – Joe Jamail

‘I’d rather deal with a Mob guy shaking hands on a deal than a Hollywood lawyer, who, the minute you get the contract signed, is trying to figure out how to screw you.’ – Albert S. Ruddy

‘They don’t need a lawyer, they need a toastmaster.’ – Edward Bennett Williams

‘My grandfather was a very elegant individual. My father also. He was a lawyer and farmer in Cuba. In Miami, he had to go to work wherever he could. But whenever it was time to go out, you saw how they cared for how they looked.’ – Andy Garcia

‘Running for office is similar to being a trial lawyer in a very long trial. It requires adrenaline and stamina; it requires being in shape mentally and emotionally. It’s a marathon.’ – Kamala Harris

‘I was training to be a lawyer… I was president of the law society at Glasgow University, and my bass guitarist was my secretary of my law society; the lead guitarist and writer worked at the law firm that I worked.’ – Gerard Butler

‘The good and wonderful thing about my whole career is that I’ve always felt that the audience, if I do it well, will track wherever I go, whether it’s President or a lawyer or bad guy or good. All I have to do is execute the material enough where they buy into it. I’ve had the great luxury of the audiences accepting that.’ – John Travolta

‘If a person is not talented enough to be a novelist, not smart enough to be a lawyer, and his hands are too shaky to perform operations, he becomes a journalist.’ – Norman Mailer

”Cat?’ ‘Cat’ can be anybody from the guy in the gutter to a lawyer, doctor, the biggest man to the lowest man, but if he’s in there with a good heart and enjoy the same music together, he’s a cat.’ – Louis Armstrong

‘I made $70,000 in the 1990s, when I was a corporate lawyer. I didn’t see that salary again until I was on MSNBC.’ – Cenk Uygur

‘My husband’s a lawyer, and I lived a lawyer’s wife’s life.’ – Erika Jayne

‘If I wanted to know what a certain future would feel like to me, I would find someone who is already living that future. If I wonder what it’s like to become a lawyer or marry a busy executive or eat at a particular restaurant, my best bet is to find people who have actually done these things and see how happy they are.’ – Daniel Gilbert

‘I began wearing hats as a young lawyer because it helped me to establish my professional identity. Before that, whenever I was at a meeting, someone would ask me to get coffee.’ – Bella Abzug

‘In the old days, you would have one lawyer to handle everything: speeding tickets, buying a house, contracts, litigation, real estate, copyrights, leasing, entertainment, intellectual property, forensic accounting, criminal offenses… the list goes on. Now, you have to have a separate lawyer for each one of those categories!’ – James Belushi

‘I’m a big Bruce Lee fan, and if I saw Bruce Lee try to be some namby-pamby lawyer, I’d want my money back.’ – Jason Statham

‘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

‘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

‘A good lawyer is a bad Christian.’ – John Lothrop Motley

‘A lawyer’s dream of heaven: every man reclaimed his property at the resurrection, and each tried to recover it from all his forefathers.’ – Samuel Butler

‘At one time, I had it notarised that I was from another planet. By a lawyer.’ – Roky Erickson

‘Discipline is part of my professional training as a lawyer.’ – Mohamed ElBaradei

‘I think too much of the music industry is for the lawyer and accountant mentality.’ – Chuck D

‘I toyed with the idea of pursuing a career as a lawyer just because I like to argue.’ – Lexa Doig

‘I had started law school at Florida State University as a part-timer. I would go two quarters, and they allowed me to drop out to play baseball, and then I’d get readmitted in September. I was convinced I was going to be a lawyer and was using my baseball salary to pay my way through school.’ – Tony La Russa

‘Every single day I’m alive or you’re alive, we’re choosing this life and this persona. We choose to be the stay-at-home mom who loves baking and Pilates. We choose to be a hipster who loves coffee shops and artisan goods. We choose to be a lawyer who runs marathons and only eats organic.’ – Rachel Hollis

‘When I chose to leave a career as a young lawyer in Washington to move to Arkansas to marry Bill and start a family, my friends asked, ‘Are you out of your mind?” – Hillary Clinton

‘Every race gets the religion it deserves, and only as policemen, pugilists, and priests have they succeeded, here and there a successful lawyer, but nothing more serious.’ – George A. Moore

‘Unless you are a lawyer or Fortune 500 CEO, carrying a briefcase is, well, nerdy.’ – Roger Stone

‘The leading rule for the lawyer, as for the man of every calling, is diligence.’ – Abraham Lincoln

‘I never lost an argument and my parents assumed I would be a lawyer. They cast me in that role.’ – Jared Harris

‘I love our daughters more than anything in the world – more than life itself. And while that may not be the first thing that some folks want to hear from an Ivy-league-educated lawyer, it is truly who I am. So for me, being Mom-in-Chief is, and always will be, job number one.’ – Michelle Obama

‘It’s the beauty and curse of doing a daily show. Some days you’ve got nothing to talk about and other days Dick Cheney shoots his lawyer in the face and everyone is happy.’ – Craig Ferguson

‘The system in Sweden is great because you get free healthcare and free education; someone who doesn’t have a lot of money can become a doctor or lawyer. There’s good paternity and maternity leave – the U.S. is probably the only civilised country in the world that doesn’t give parents anything.’ – Alexander Skarsgard

‘I consider myself sort of like a pseudo lawyer. Like, I’m convinced I can solve every case and argue my way.’ – Sandra Bullock

‘Being a lawyer is absolutely stressful in its own right. But then, doing ‘The Bachelor’ and ‘The Bachelorette’ and all the media afterwards, you can imagine, that’s just like a whole new level of stress.’ – Rachel Lindsay

‘I’m a lawyer, I practiced for many years, and so I believe in the Fifth Amendment.’ – Elijah Cummings

‘Of course, some would say if you have a performing inclination, then you should become a lawyer. That’s a platform we use, or a priest. You know, anywhere you lecture and pontificate to people.’ – Rowan Atkinson

‘I was a human rights lawyer for 20 years, I believed those values of dignity, equality and non-discrimination were a given. believed the only question in my lifetime would be – how much further do we extend those values? I did not think in my lifetime we’d actually be having an argument about those values.’ – Keir Starmer

‘From as early as I can remember, I was focused on becoming a lawyer.’ – Gary Bettman

‘My parents wanted me to be a lawyer. But I don’t think I would have been very happy. I’d be in front of the jury singing.’ – Jennifer Lopez

‘Any good trial lawyer knows that if you’ve got one credible expert or scientific study, then you can let the jury decide.’ – Joe Jamail

‘Movies and media really can influence us. A few years ago, my daughter wanted to be a dancer; since Obama came into office, she now wants to be a lawyer and get into politics and maybe even be president.’ – Common

‘I’m trusting in the Lord and a good lawyer.’ – Oliver North

‘As a child, I wanted to be a lawyer because I thought lawyers and the law were wonderful. But they are more wonderful, I think, than I had thought.’ – Janet Reno

‘My father still is a lawyer, and my mom was a teacher and then later a career counselor.’ – Steve Case

‘I decided I wanted to be a lawyer when I was 11 years of age.’ – Johnnie Cochran

‘I am primarily a lawyer. I would rather play in the game than be the umpire.’ – Lewis F. Powell, Jr.

‘As a trial lawyer, intelligence is important only in the sense that it allows you to play the game, if you will. Without it, you don’t even have a ticket into the competitive arena. But beyond that, it doesn’t get you very far at all.’ – Vincent Bugliosi

‘I was going to be a lawyer, and I had studied hard, but then it suddenly occurred to me in a very deep, profound way that I didn’t want to keep practicing law for the rest of my life.’ – Marjorie Liu

‘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

‘My father, who was from a wealthy family and highly educated, a lawyer, Yale and Columbia, walked out with the benefit of a healthy push from my mother, a seventh grade graduate, who took a typing course and got a secretarial job as fast as she could.’ – George Weinberg

‘As a practising lawyer, I was mediocre, but I worked hard as a law officer of the state government and on the private side. After becoming a judge, I maintained a low profile in other activities and concentrated only on judicial work.’ – P. Sathasivam

‘The jury consist of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.’ – Robert Frost

‘The ‘Art of Charm’ podcast can be intimidating. Not just because it’s the work of a lawyer called Jordan Harbinger. Not simply because Jordan has worked out how to weaponise all the many elements of the human personality that go to make up charisma in order to get people to listen to him, be impressed by him, or hire him.’ – David Hepworth

‘I sang in a rock band when I was training as a lawyer. You know, not professional, we just did it for fun. We just did gigs all over Edinburgh and some in Glasgow and some at festivals.’ – Gerard Butler

‘How fortunate I was to be alive and a lawyer when, for the first time in United States history, it became possible to urge, successfully, before legislatures and courts, the equal-citizenship stature of women and men as a fundamental constitutional principle.’ – Ruth Bader Ginsburg

‘I’m a mom. I’m a lawyer. I’m a lifelong Michigander.’ – Gretchen Whitmer

‘A doctor or lawyer who has reached the top can stay there or move on to higher prestige positions. But an actor of comparable competence and success and age has little or no control over his career.’ – Van Heflin

‘I didn’t expect to have music as my main thing. I always thought I was going to be a lawyer. When I graduated, I was doing really well with my music in Malaysia. I had stable income, and I had really good momentum in the music industry, so I had to make a decision whether to stop that and continue being a lawyer.’ – Yuna

‘To force a lawyer on a defendant can only lead him to believe that the law contrives against him.’ – Potter Stewart

‘Medical liability reform is not a Republican or Democrat issue or even a doctor versus lawyer issue. It is a patient issue.’ – John Ensign

‘Frankly, I am shocked at the complete level of incompetence exhibited by lawyer after lawyer for Mr. Cohen and Mr. Trump.’ – Michael Avenatti

‘In violation of the Habeas Corpus Act and the fundamental laws of our constitution these men have never been brought to trail or even allowed to see a lawyer.’ – John Amery

‘I never saw a lawyer yet who would admit he was making money.’ – Mary Roberts Rinehart

‘I’m so free-spirited. Everyone has a me inside them: that loud girl that just wanna go, ‘Ayyyy!’ No matter if you a doctor, a lawyer, a teacher, it comes out.’ – Cardi B

‘I had a world theme at my Bar Mitzvah: each table was a different country. I had a miserable time. There was one picture of me, and I’m wearing a double-breasted suit. There were all these people having fun, and I’m just standing there. I look like a corporate lawyer who just found out he’s not making partner.’ – Nick Kroll

‘As a lawyer who has dealt in defamation, I know that someone’s reputation has to be lowered in the eyes of right-thinking people to sue.’ – David Hunt

‘One of the things I was taught in law school is that I’d never be able to think the same again – that being a lawyer is something that’s part of who I am as an individual now.’ – Anita Hill

‘No one’s calling me for lawyer roles. I still have a lot to do to prove myself.’ – Channing Tatum

‘In seeking a lawyer, you are looking for an advocate, an expert advisor on the law and on your rights and responsibilities, a strategist, a negotiator, and a litigator.’ – Laura Wasser

‘We’ll have a sales leader go run engineering. A lawyer go run business development. A business development leader go run our consumer operations. We’re going to train a generalist group of leaders who know how to learn and operate in collaboration teamwork. I think that’s the future of leadership.’ – John T. Chambers

‘My dad is a lawyer and my mom is an artist. So growing up was exactly what it sounds like – strict household but a lot of creativity. They are so psyched that I get to make music for a living. My parents rule.’ – Ty Segall

‘I had, toward the last, been shut off from all visitors, and so when the lawyer, Peter A. Hendricks, came and told me that friends of mine were willing to take charge of me if I would rather be with them than in the asylum, I was only too glad to give my consent.’ – Nellie Bly

‘For me, being a lawyer means to help those in need.’ – Joe Jamail

”The Book of Air and Shadows’ was born during a conference with an intellectual property lawyer on a particular afternoon in November of 2003.’ – Michael Gruber

‘If you had asked me growing up what a stylist does or what a magazine editor does, I would have had no clue – how do you research something like that when you are a first-born child of an immigrant who only grew up knowing doctor, engineer, and lawyer as careers?’ – Eva Chen

‘I was a litigation lawyer, following the crowd off the proverbial cliff, when I pressed the pause button.’ – Robin S. Sharma

‘My junior year, I went to an LSAT-prep course. I flipped over my test and thought, ‘You bastards.’ I walked out and went to Waffle House. That’s where I had what I call ‘The Waffle House Epiphany’: I didn’t want to be a lawyer. I wanted to make a dent in the universe.’ – Alexis Ohanian

‘Concepts of justice must have hands and feet to carry out justice in every case in the shortest possible time and the lowest possible cost. This is the challenge to every lawyer and judge in America.’ – Warren E. Burger

‘I’m not a politician. I’m not a lawyer. I’m just a country boy.’ – Max Burns

‘Reading a brief filled with ad hominem attacks is like listening to my kids fight, except that I have to wait until we’re in the courtroom to tell the attacking lawyer what I think about it.’ – Raymond Kethledge

‘Extemporaneous speaking should be practiced and cultivated. It is the lawyer’s avenue to the public. However able and faithful he may be in other respects, people are slow to bring him business if he cannot make a speech.’ – Abraham Lincoln

‘My grandfather was a lawyer, my dad was a lawyer, my mum was a lawyer, I got an uncle who’s a lawyer, I got cousins that are lawyers.’ – Benicio Del Toro

‘Writing is such a ‘pretend’ profession. Nobody is counting on you at all. You can’t ‘pretend’ to be a lawyer or a teacher. It takes a lot of grit to continue.’ – MacKenzie Scott

‘Im a soulless lawyer. Give me any opinion and I can argue it.’ – Megyn Kelly

‘Every trial lawyer knows what it is like to sit patiently while the other side puts on its case. Inevitably they make a few points that appeal to the jury, and waiting for the opportunity to respond can be painful. The desire to jump up immediately – to point out the flaws in logic or the factual distortions – is often overpowering.’ – Eliot Spitzer

‘The good and wonderful thing about my whole career is that I’ve always felt that the audience, if I do it well, will track wherever I go, whether it’s President or a lawyer or bad guy or good.’ – John Travolta

‘I say this everywhere I go: I admire and respect Hillary. She has been a lawyer, a law professor, First Lady of Arkansas, First Lady of the United States, a U.S. Senator, Secretary of State.’ – Michelle Obama

‘Nobody wants to be a lawyer – it’s hard work. But it was kind of my academic route.’ – Vinny Guadagnino

‘I would say that IQ is the strongest predictor of which field you can get into and hold a job in, whether you can be an accountant, lawyer or nurse, for example.’ – Daniel Goleman

‘I decided that I wanted to be a lawyer in eighth grade.’ – Julie Sweet

‘A lawyer who does not know men is handicapped.’ – William Dunbar

‘I really thought I wanted to be a lawyer, but then I had an epiphany when I was in law school and dropped out. I’d always been a journalism junkie, but I’d never had confidence to think that I could actually edit or write the stories.’ – Jodi Kantor

‘In 2007, when I was a lawyer for the public interest group Free Press, I helped draft the complaint to the FCC against Comcast for secretly blocking BitTorrent and other technologies.’ – Marvin Ammori

‘Credentials are critical if you want to do something professional. If you want to become a doctor or lawyer or teacher or professor, there is a credentialing process. But there are a lot of other things where it’s not clear they’re that important.’ – Peter Thiel

‘While awaiting deportation proceedings, my parents remained in detention near Boston, so I could visit them. They would have liked to fight deportation, but without a lawyer and an immigration system that rarely gives judges the discretion to allow families to stay together, they never had a chance.’ – Diane Guerrero

‘I got to play a real D-bag lawyer, and comb my hair really awfully and kiss Emma Stone, so it was a really wonderful day on set.’ – Josh Groban

‘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

‘My lawyer has been a good friend of mine for a long time. He and I continuously have conversations.’ – Matthew McConaughey

‘I am sorry to say that sometimes matters of very small importance waste a good deal of precious time, by the long and repeated speeches and chicanery of gentlemen who will not wholly throw off the lawyer even in Congress.’ – William Whipple

‘There’s this old saying that, if you aren’t particularly gifted in natural sciences, if you don’t want to become a teacher or pastor or doctor, and don’t know what else to do, then you become a lawyer. But I’ve never regretted it.’ – Bernhard Schlink

‘When I was growing up, my mother would always say, ‘It will go on your permanent record.’ There was no ‘permanent record.’ If there were a ‘permanent record,’ I’d never be able to be a lawyer. I was such a bum in elementary school and high school… There is a permanent record today, and it’s called the Internet.’ – Alan Dershowitz

‘In the balance of my professional life, I’ve had the privilege of the working as a practicing lawyer and teacher.’ – Neil Gorsuch

‘I will be the defence lawyer of the Italian people.’ – Giuseppe Conte

‘Baseball is almost the only orderly thing in a very unorderly world. If you get three strikes, even the best lawyer in the world can’t get you off.’ – Bill Veeck

‘I wasn’t going to be an actor. I was going to be a lawyer. I came from a family just above working class, just below middle class, a great family of wonderful values. The idea of me having a chance for a law degree was enticing. Enticing to me but also very enticing to my family.’ – Gerard Butler

‘When I first became a lawyer, only 2% of the bar was women. People would always think I was a secretary. In those days, professional women in the business world wore hats. So I started wearing hats.’ – Bella Abzug

‘I thought I wanted to be a lawyer and was going through this growth phase.’ – Matthew McGrory

‘The events of the day inspired me to become a lawyer.’ – Christopher Darden

‘Not a law firm in the entire city of New York bid for my employment as a lawyer when I earned my degree.’ – Ruth Bader Ginsburg

‘I was a litigation lawyer, working in downtown Toronto. I was successful, yet I was very unfulfilled. I had the sense that I really wasn’t living according to my values, and I didn’t have the passion or sense of mission I was looking for.’ – Robin S. Sharma

‘I’m a footballer and not a lawyer or an accountant and my job is to take care of business out on the pitch.’ – Jude Bellingham

‘Well, you know, one lawyer says I’m the only witness and I’m not credible. Another lawyer says this witness – there’s tons of evidence that’s been available for years.’ – Patty Hearst

‘I failed the LSAT. Basically, if I had not failed, I’d have been a lawyer and there would be no Spanx. I think failure is nothing more than life’s way of nudging you that you are off course. My attitude to failure is not attached to outcome, but in not trying. It is liberating.’ – Sara Blakely

‘I didn’t do it for the money. I know a lot of people say that, but if I’d wanted to be rich, I’d have stayed working as a city lawyer. I gave that up eight years ago and took a massive drop in salary, and I didn’t mind because I was doing what I loved. There’s plenty of material for the other five books.’ – Michelle Paver

‘Ask any lawyer – if a prosecutor thinks he can win a case, he’ll prosecute it.’ – Robert B. Weide

‘Growing up, Karuna Shinsho on CNN was one of my idols, so I wanted to become either an anchorwoman or an international lawyer.’ – Claudia Kim

‘There was a time when I wanted to be a lawyer, or even a professional triathlete… But nothing could come close to the passion I have for acting.’ – Ryan Kwanten

‘It doesn’t make sense for me to be a lawyer in a place where there is no law.’ – Ruben Blades

‘What a holler would ensue if people had to pay the minister as much to marry them as they have to pay a lawyer to get them a divorce.’ – Claire Trevor

‘A lawyer is never entirely comfortable with a friendly divorce, anymore than a good mortician wants to finish his job and then have the patient sit up on the table.’ – Jean Kerr

‘I am a trial lawyer. Matilda says that at dinner on a good day I sound like an affidavit.’ – Mario Cuomo

‘A group of white South Africans recently killed a black lawyer because he was black. That was wrong. They should have killed him because he was a lawyer.’ – A. Whitney Brown

‘The only difference between a dead skunk lying in the road and a dead lawyer lying in the road is that there are skid marks around the skunk.’ – Patrick Murray

‘I used to want to be a lawyer, but I didn’t want to have half my brain sucked out.’ – Max Walker

‘These days baseball is different. You come to spring training, you get your legs ready, you arms loose, your agents ready, your lawyer lined up.’ – Dave Winfield

‘I don’t believe man is a woman’s natural enemy. Perhaps his lawyer is.’ – Shana Alexander

‘McVeigh’s lawyer got him the death penalty, which, quite frankly, I could have done.’ – Jon Stewart

‘I gather from a lawyer that there was a rehearsal yesterday. We haven’t a hope. I know the presiding judge too: I’ve had the misfortune to sleep with his wife. He was specially picked.’ – Alphonse Karr

‘I had never even thought I’d be an actress – I was supposed to be a lawyer. But the motivation is the same: when you act, you defend a role; you have to be convincing. It’s the same career.’ – Anne Parillaud

‘I seriously doubt I would ever have written the first story had I not been a lawyer. I never dreamed of being a writer. I wrote only after witnessing a trial.’ – John Grisham

‘When I first saw a Fellini movie, I came out of the movie theatre and decided to become a lawyer! I thought to myself, it’s impossible to make something so beautiful!’ – Roberto Benigni

‘Money is the sovereign queen of all delights – for her, the lawyer pleads, the soldier fights.’ – Richard Barnfield

‘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

‘On January 10, 1963, I was sworn in as a lawyer, so next January 10 I will have practiced law for 40 years, and I’ve loved every minute of it.’ – Johnnie Cochran

‘Until now, until I actually got into law class, I just never thought of it as being an interest for me, but it’s really funny because now that I’m in law, I’m like ‘Wow, I could be a lawyer.’ – Lisa Leslie

‘Unless you have a perception of who you are as a lawyer, you will never be at ease in dealing with legal matters, clients, or courts. But if you know who you are and why you’re there, all you need is the expertise and the information.’ – Samuel Dash

‘A lawyer I once knew told me of a strange case, a suffragette who had never married. After her death, he opened her trunk and discovered 50 wedding gowns.’ – Marguerite Young

‘The music rights at the time cost me $12,000 in 1964 money, which is about double now or whatever. But I cleared everything. I had a lawyer in New York. And it was cleared for use in a short subject, not a feature.’ – Kenneth Anger

‘I have a problem with censorship by the lawyer – by legal people by the publishing firm, and I may be changing publishers. They don’t seem to want to take too many risks with living people.’ – Kenneth Anger

‘But the person who scored well on an SAT will not necessarily be the best doctor or the best lawyer or the best businessman. These tests do not measure character, leadership, creativity, perseverance.’ – William Julius Wilson

‘Foreman told Ray to plead guilty and he’d then give his brother $500, if Ray didn’t cause any problems at the guilty plea hearing, and he could take that $500 and hire a lawyer to set aside the plea. Foreman actually put that in writing.’ – William Pepper

‘Being a lawyer in New York sucks because you’re working eighty, sometimes a hundred hours a week.’ – David Steinberg

‘Whether you’re a newspaper journalist, a lawyer, a doctor. You have to organize your thoughts.’ – Frederick Wiseman

‘My father wasn’t a very good lawyer. He thought the law was sacred and something that was meant to help people. He didn’t charge people like he should have… which is why I was allowed to play bars and strip joints when I was 14.’ – Max Weinberg

‘So that in 1974, when I graduated as a lawyer, I figured I’m not going to be a lawyer under a military regime.’ – Ruben Blades

‘The lesson that any thinking person draws from the Stewart saga is that when the government asks questions, run for your lawyer and don’t say a word. Had Stewart kept her mouth shut, she’d be OK.’ – Allan Sloan

‘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.’ – Fred F. Fielding

‘It is important that people support prisoners of the Italian state like Joe in whatever way they can. I was not allowed contact with a lawyer for the first 24 hours, and no phone calls were permitted, but apparently telegrams have been getting through to Joe.’ – John Blair

‘This summer, I’ll be bringing out a mystery that involves a young lawyer and a court scene the likes of which I don’t think you’ve ever seen. Hollywood said this is James Patterson meets John Grisham.’ – James Patterson

‘Just think, if I had understood my lawyer and if he and I had communicated properly in January 1958, this whole history would have been entirely different .’ – Gordon Gould

‘There were a lot of choices to make and I always picked artist. I never once picked doctor, lawyer, firemen or something like that. It was always artist.’ – Maynard James Keenan

‘The lawyer has not reached the height of his vocation who does not find therein… scope for a peculiar but genuine artistic function.’ – Frederick Pollock

‘My mother was a Northern woman, daughter of Hon. John Sergeant, a distinguished lawyer, and for many years representative in Congress from Philadelphia.’ – John Sergeant Wise

‘I’m afraid I talk a lot, too much, perhaps. I should have been a lawyer or a college professor or a windy politician, though I’m glad I am not any of these.’ – Tom Glazer

‘I worked as a lawyer; as a member of the teaching staff of a technical college; and then I worked principally as legal adviser to Adolf Hitler and the National Socialist German Workers Party.’ – Hans Frank

‘Well, I think that there is a connection between being a lawyer and a doctor and an actor. They kind of, in some ways, have the same appeal, I suppose.’ – Jeffrey Jones

‘There is simply no plausible construction of the known evidence that leaves out Novak either providing a proffer through his lawyer of what he would say if he testified or having testified directly.’ – Michael Isikoff

‘Later, at Stanford University, I thought I’d become a lawyer or businessman, but my father came to me and said he thought there was a big future in the fine-wine business.’ – Robert Mondavi

‘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.’ – Floyd Abrams

‘I was a trial lawyer when I was elected to Congress.’ – Geraldine Ferraro

‘Growing up, I never gave a thought to being a writer. All I ever wanted to be was a traveler and explorer. Science-fiction allowed me to go places that were otherwise inaccessible, which is why I started reading it. I was going to be a lawyer, but I got saved.’ – Alan Dean Foster

‘If you want to be a doctor, a lawyer you must go to college. But if you want to be a musician or such, study your craft. Study music.’ – Billy Eckstine

‘I’m real bent on dialogue. I’m just a little bit crazy and when you put that along with 20 years as a criminal lawyer, it’s pretty easy to come up with some interesting plots.’ – Christopher Darden

‘He wanted to be a lawyer, couldn’t afford it, so he started dealing to go to college – good intention.’ – John Leguizamo

‘A chief called Lawyer, because he was a great talker, took the lead in the council, and sold nearly all the Nez Perce country.’ – Chief Joseph

‘Lawyer acted without authority from our band. He had no right to sell the Wallowa country.’ – Chief Joseph

‘When I was starting out, young actresses had the studio system to protect them. Now you have a host of sharks, from your agent to your publicist to your lawyer.’ – Francesca Annis

‘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.’ – Dennis Hastert

‘Col. Shaffer is prohibited by his lawyer from talking. He’s at great risk. They want to take away his pay and his health care benefits so they can hold it over his head and not allow him to talk while he’s under suspension. This is not America.’ – Curt Weldon

‘Well, I guess most people would only know me from The O.C. I did a few episodes of Gilmore Girls before that. I was also a client on a lot of lawyer shows.’ – Adam Brody

‘I went downtown as a lawyer and then I worked in a liquor store at night, as I had done all through law school. And so when I got to the point where I could give up the night job, I joined the political club.’ – David Dinkins

‘When I was a very young lawyer, I had a senior partner who advised me never to get mad, except on purpose.’ – Warren Christopher

‘I get letters from kids, teenagers and young girls who just want to be Mac. I’ve had quite a few people actually say that they’re going to become a Marine or a JAG lawyer because of me… the character. I think that’s pretty cool!’ – Catherine Bell

‘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

‘As a private lawyer, I could bill $750 an hour, but I don’t.’ – Jay Alan Sekulow

‘Now is the time to draw a clean, clear, bright line and say if you are engaging in speech over the Internet you do not have to check with your lawyer or your accountant. You are a free American, and you have the opportunity to engage in free speech over the Internet.’ – John Doolittle

‘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

‘Boulez seemed to me to be a guy who wrote laws. Like a company lawyer.’ – Luc Ferrari

‘Kinsey was never a lawyer. She’s strictly blue collar.’ – Sue Grafton

‘If you put down a list of jobs, doctor, lawyer, janitor, teacher or movie star, everybody would pick the movie star. And why? So you could lie around the pool, drink margaritas and send money to your parents. So that’s what I did.’ – Steve Guttenberg

‘Temperamentally, Sam and I are very much alike. He’s a lawyer, my father’s a lawyer, and I always wanted to play one. On so many levels the role just felt right. I fell in love with it as I would a woman.’ – Rob Lowe

‘Rarely in my 45 years as a civil rights lawyer have I been so angry about an injustice as I am about what happened to Billy Ray Johnson.’ – Morris Dees

‘In 1974, the modeling world changed. Jerry Ford and my lawyer negotiated the deal for the first exclusive contract in modeling history.’ – Lauren Hutton

‘If the only way a library can offer an Internet exhibit about the New Deal is to hire a lawyer to clear the rights to every image and sound, then the copyright system is burdening creativity in a way that has never been seen before because there are no formalities.’ – Lawrence Lessig

‘I think the reason why we were able to actually get it made was that we were so extremely naive – we had no experience at all here. We didn’t even know that you were supposed to have an agent. We didn’t even have a lawyer. We didn’t know one soul.’ – Renny Harlin

‘Each investigation team has a lawyer attached to it and there was a lawyer attached to me and my assistant.’ – Tony Greig

‘My friends in the Congress, I have known Coretta King since I went south during the civil rights movement as a lawyer. She was a vibrant, consistent, totally dedicated partner with her husband.’ – John Conyers

‘I’m not a lawyer, and maybe I should have used more specific legal language.’ – Sonny Bono

‘When Thurgood Marshall became a lawyer, race relations in the United States were particularly bad.’ – Constance Baker Motley

‘When I was 15, I decided I wanted to be a lawyer. No one thought this was a good idea.’ – Constance Baker Motley

‘I wanted to play the part that Mary Kay played, the lawyer who wanted to have baby and felt her clock ticking, because it was something I could relate to.’ – JoBeth Williams

‘While Lincoln thus became a lawyer, he did not cease to remain a politician.’ – John George Nicolay

‘So, in a way I was hedging and saying that if the Olympic stuff doesn’t work out at least I can be a lawyer.’ – Frank Shorter

‘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

‘We had been working. We had a bunch of songs written and it came time to make the record, so we had our lawyer make the call to Elektra and ask for our advance. Then, we got dropped. It was actually exciting.’ – Gene Ween

‘Dad and mom would have preferred that I be a doctor, a lawyer, a scientist, or a great humanitarian.’ – Levon Helm

‘Everybody has a right to be defended, and every lawyer has a duty to defend people accused. And my office is to defend him, to discuss the accusation point by point, as I think this is a normal step in a democracy.’ – Jacques Verges

‘Look at the number of cop shows and lawyer shows and forensics shows… I think there could be room for two quite different examinations of the same political office.’ – Geena Davis

‘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.’ – Gay Talese

‘My father was a lawyer and to my best knowledge nobody in my family before had interest in science.’ – George Andrew Olah

‘My grandfather on my mother’s side was a professor of mechanical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; my other grandfather was a lawyer, and one time Speaker of the Tennessee House of Representatives.’ – Kenneth G. Wilson

‘The government of the United States is and always has been a lawyer’s government.’ – Chauncey Depew

‘The good lawyer is the great salesman.’ – Janet Reno

‘While I have served in public office for 30 years, my professional training is as a pharmacist, not a lawyer or an accountant.’ – George Ryan

‘I love my lawyer. I have to say that of course!’ – Catherine Zeta-Jones

‘You get a lawyer whether you’re in a military tribunal or whether you’re in a federal court, number one. The attorney general decided that the court with the biggest – with the greatest venue, with the best jurisdiction was the New York court. That was the right decision to make.’ – Joe Biden

‘If a lobbyist sets up shop, or a lawyer, in which they’re receiving income through what is something like a tax loophole so that it’s not counting as corporate income, that is what this is counting as a small business.’ – Austan Goolsbee

‘My brother Cody is 19. He wants to stay out of the limelight and become a lawyer. I want him to be an entertainment lawyer, so he can help me out!’ – Lindsay Lohan

‘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.’ – Jason Segel

‘I’m not only a lawyer, I have a post doctorate degree in federal tax law from William and Mary. I work in serious scholarship and work in the United States federal tax court. My husband and I raised five kids. We’ve raised 23 foster children. We’ve applied ourselves to education reform. We started a charter school for at-risk kids.’ – Michele Bachmann

‘I was a lawyer for 10 years – a short time, but it molded me into who I am. My clients were little people fighting big corporations, so it was a natural thing to not only represent the little guy but also to pull for him – it’s the American way.’ – John Grisham

‘To play a lawyer and have one year of law school under your belt, you sort of know what you’re talking about! I’m able to memorize the legal courtroom stuff a lot faster than I would have been able to otherwise.’ – Jerry O’Connell

‘One lawyer told me that he never drinks water or eats in front of the jury because they can’t do either one.’ – Jeremy Sumpter

‘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.’ – Danica McKellar

‘I was a lawyer for 10 years, and several of my clients had the misfortune, through no fault of my own, of going to prison. I visited them occasionally.’ – John Grisham

‘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

‘As a lawyer, as a private citizen, you see a lot of injustice. You see a lot of people who should have been punished and are not, and people who were punished wrongfully are not vindicated. Fiction is sort of a way to set the record straight, and let people at least believe that justice can be achieved and the right outcomes can occur.’ – David Baldacci

‘Listen, it’s very easy not to be ripped off, you know. Get yourself a lawyer.’ – Samantha Fox

‘Nobody wants to read about the honest lawyer down the street who does real estate loans and wills. If you want to sell books, you have to write about the interesting lawyers – the guys who steal all the money and take off. That’s the fun stuff.’ – John Grisham

‘After I’d been a lawyer for about five or six years, I started playing around with fiction.’ – John Grisham

‘I’m not an angry person. When I write, the lawyer in me tries to make it as easy to read as possible.’ – Joe Scarborough

‘When I was in jail I could only think about what the average person has to go through – the person who has no power to go to the press or no money to hire a lawyer.’ – Josh Brolin

‘And you realise you’re doing a public service in making people happy – as a musician you can give people something a doctor, a lawyer, a politician cannot give them that. It’s not scientific. It’s spiritual – a good feeling. And although you don’t know them personally, the audience are like your friends.’ – Billy Ocean

‘I’ve raised three kids. I’m a lawyer. I’ve written books on the Constitution.’ – Caroline Kennedy

‘I wanted to be a leading man – the black lawyer, the black doctor, the black policeman.’ – David Alan Grier

‘So the good news is, if you’re unemployed and you go to apply for a job and you’re not hired for that job, see a lawyer – you may be able to file for a claim because you were discriminated against because you were unemployed.’ – Louie Gohmert

‘My father was an immigrant from Austria and he became a lawyer and became a judge and I think he was a good judge.’ – Mickey Kaus

‘When a criminal breaks into your home I’ll let the liberals call the lawyer. I’m going to call Smith & Wesson.’ – Rick Perry

‘Being from a very traditional Chinese-American family, my parents believed the only options to have a successful life were to be a doctor, a lawyer, an engineer or a business person.’ – Phillip Lim

‘I absolutely reject that idea that the press is liberal and what it does is liberal. In my view, it’s like accusing a doctor of malpractice or a lawyer of malfeasance.’ – Ron Suskind

‘Thirty, 40 years ago, more than that now, even, the cook was certainly at the bottom of the social scale. And any mother would’ve wanted their child to marry a doctor, a lawyer, an architect, not a cook. Now, we are genius, it’s different.’ – Jacques Pepin

‘My Dad, a small-town lawyer, was also named Paul. Until we lost him when I was 16, he was a gentle presence in my life. I like to think he’d be proud of me and my sister and brothers, because I’m sure proud of him and of where I come from, Janesville, Wisconsin.’ – Paul Ryan

‘My dad, of course, like a lot of Asian parents, wanted me to be an engineer or doctor and never could understand why I would want to be a lawyer. And then, when I first said I wanted to run for office, he thought that was absolutely insane.’ – Gary Locke

‘I find it irresponsible to go, ‘She’s an actress, what does she know?’ That means if you’re a dentist, what do you know? If you’re a lawyer, what do you know? It’s our profession, it’s what we do. It’s not who we are.’ – Eva Longoria

‘I tell my students, if you ever become comfortable with your role as criminal defense lawyer, it’s time to quit. It should be a constant source of discomfort, because you’re dealing with incredible moral ambiguity, and you’ve been cast into a role which is not enviable.’ – Alan Dershowitz

‘Ferdinand was a gold trader. He was a lawyer for mining companies. When he entered politics in l949, he had tons and tons of gold. When Bill Gates was a college dropout, Ferdinand already possessed billions of dollars and tons of gold. It wasn’t stolen.’ – Imelda Marcos

‘My castings sort of go in phases. There’ll be several icy professional parts – a lawyer or a cop. And then there’ll be the intelligent-but-wounded group and then the period things. It goes in sequence.’ – Laura Linney

‘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.’ – Jamie Moyer

‘My uncle’s a lawyer and I remember going to see him in court and thinking, ‘That’s cool, too bad I could never be a lawyer.” – Lena Dunham

‘I thought I would, you know, go to college, get to law school, finish, and then get a job and work as a lawyer, but that proved to be not a good fit for me.’ – Demetri Martin

‘Young men do not want to have to take a consent form and a lawyer on a date, just as young women have every right to go on a date and to say ‘No’, having it respected.’ – John Redwood

‘I’m a trained lawyer, after all, so I don’t have to admit to anything.’ – Clive Anderson

‘My father was a lawyer.’ – Pat Robertson

‘It was very clear to me in 1965, in Mississippi, that, as a lawyer, I could get people into schools, desegregate the schools, but if they were kicked off the plantations – and if they didn’t have food, didn’t have jobs, didn’t have health care, didn’t have the means to exercise those civil rights, we were not going to have success.’ – Marian Wright Edelman

‘Obviously if you are an accountant, a criminal lawyer, a president, or a senator, or if you work in a funeral parlor, you have to wear a tie, but more and more people are wearing very casual clothes.’ – Jean Pigozzi

‘I’ve never worked on a lawyer show for a long time, but I imagine the actors all start acting like lawyers.’ – Katey Sagal

‘I wanted to be a lawyer. I realized I don’t really want to be a lawyer. I want to play a lawyer. Thank God I figured that out.’ – Ashley Greene

‘And unless you think there is a serious chance you’re going to jail, don’t listen to your lawyer.’ – Barney Frank

‘And I went off to Stanford, I was pretty young and pretty naive. And I had a professor I really loved, who was himself a lawyer.’ – Sandra Day O’Connor

‘I’m a recovering lawyer. The practice of law has changed. Every agreement is a fight.’ – Elizabeth Edwards

‘My mother’s a psychologist, my stepfather’s a psychologist, my stepmother is a therapist and my dad’s a lawyer. So it was all prominent in my life. I don’t know anyone who doesn’t know someone on some form of prescription medicine.’ – Zach Braff

‘After 25-plus years as a lawyer, prosecutor, and defense attorney, I have developed a deep appreciation for both the wisdom of the law and the role that jurists play in framing the rights and responsibilities that define our society.’ – Eliot Spitzer

‘I’m a hard headed lawyer.’ – Eric Holder

‘Running for office is important, and you don’t really need more than to be right on the issues, and to be able to articulate what it is you believe. You don’t need a certain background. You don’t need to be a lawyer. You don’t need to have some professional degree.’ – Matt Gonzalez

‘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.’ – Carrie Preston

‘I was a lawyer and I loved it, but my Francesca was born, and a divorce followed way too soon after.’ – Lisa Scottoline

‘But the fact is, I’m not work-identified. I’m not a lawyer or a writer. I’m a mom, and I’m a woman, and that’s the kind of people I want to see in books in the starring role.’ – Lisa Scottoline

‘As an actor, you’re sort of the court-appointed lawyer for the character.’ – Vera Farmiga

‘When ‘Supernatural’ came out, there were a lot of procedurals and you were either a doctor or a cop or lawyer, otherwise the show didn’t stay on TV. And then we came around, and I don’t want to say we were trailblazers, but we found our niche.’ – Jared Padalecki

‘When I finished school, everyone wanted to go to a good university and become a lawyer or a doctor. My A-levels were sort of chosen for me.’ – Ben Barnes

‘The fact of the matter is that when there are feelings involved and you like someone, it doesn’t matter if you’re an actor, a teacher, a doctor, a lawyer, a receptionist – you can’t really help it when you have feelings for someone.’ – Jessica Szohr

‘My dad is my biggest source of inspiration. He’s a lawyer, and when he’d get home, we always sat down and listened to music.’ – Dan Reynolds

‘It seems a lot of straight men need a word coach or a lawyer when it comes to discussing ‘Sex and the City.” – Michael Patrick King

‘I’m an old trial lawyer.’ – Patrick Leahy

‘So I go to my first book signing, and these two girls came up and gave me a piece of paper: ’10 reasons you should date our dad. He climbed Mount Kilimanjaro. He’s a lawyer.’ He didn’t know what was going on. He didn’t even know me. They called him, and he came down and asked me out that day. Now I’m dating their dad!’ – Hoda Kotb

‘I had a 2-week courtship with a fellow student in the fiction workshop in Iowa and a 5-minute wedding in a lawyer’s office above the coffee shop where we’d been having lunch that day. And so I sent a cable to my father saying, ‘By the time you get this, Daddy, I’ll already be Mrs. Blaise!” – Bharati Mukherjee

‘I’ve always had an affinity for lawyers. My dad is a lawyer. He’s retired now. My brother is a lawyer.’ – Scott Bakula

‘And I’ve always felt comfortable certainly in a courtroom because you’re just performing. And there was a time in my life when I thought when I grew up I’d be a trial lawyer myself.’ – Scott Bakula

‘Obviously I’m a lawyer; I like to have cases.’ – David Boies

‘I didn’t have the equipment for the regular world of being a lawyer. I didn’t have the imagination for that. I did have a funny kind of ambition, but I didn’t know where to put it.’ – Michael Lindsay-Hogg

‘A little secret – I’m the child of a shrink. I am; my mom’s a shrink, and my father’s a lawyer. So believe me, I analyze and negotiate. That is a huge amount of the director’s work, especially when you’re working with people who – such a variety.’ – Adam Shankman

‘When I came back to India after Harvard Business School, I started as a lawyer and as a trade union leader.’ – P. Chidambaram

‘I think I would have been a reasonably good lawyer. I have a faculty for making sense of mountains of information.’ – Hilary Mantel

‘As a lawyer, I could engage in killer litigation with the best of them. It was war, after all.’ – Megyn Kelly

‘My dream job would be a lawyer. I can talk my way out of anything, and I love cross-examining people. I think I’d be a really good lawyer.’ – Tamara Ecclestone

‘I was a lawyer for about ten years. The law teaches one to see things from all different angles.’ – Alex Flinn

‘My generation’s parents told their children, ‘Become an accountant, a lawyer, or an engineer; that will give you a solid foothold in the middle class.’ But these jobs are now being sent overseas. So in order to make it today, you have to do work that’s hard to outsource, hard to automate.’ – Daniel H. Pink

‘Thomas More’s birth was noted by his father upon a blank page at the back of a copy of Geoffrey of Monmouth’s ‘Historia Regum Britanniae’; for a lawyer John More was remarkably inexact in his references to that natal year, and the date has been moved from 1477 to 1478 and back again.’ – Peter Ackroyd

‘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.’ – Diego Della Valle

‘I had actually studied political science in college. I had dreams of being a lawyer at one time.’ – Michael Kelly

‘I was a litigation lawyer. That’s all very logical. Become a litigation lawyer. Become successful. Have a nice office. But there was some pull inside of me saying, self-publish this book. I followed that intuition and it’s been a great choice for me in my life.’ – Robin S. Sharma

‘As a child I wanted to be a professional athlete or lawyer.’ – Walter Dean Myers

‘Even a competent lawyer may not be able to mount an adequate defense against the state, with all its resources, if he has next to nothing for investigation and effectively works for starvation wages.’ – Anthony Lewis

‘My parents would have loved it if my brother or I had become a doctor or lawyer.’ – Gabriel Macht

‘Being a famous singer or an international singer – that’s my dream, too, but my main goal is to be a real student and be able to graduate and be a lawyer and have my own business.’ – Charice Pempengco

‘I don’t want to stay a singer forever. I want to fulfill my dream career as a lawyer!’ – Charice Pempengco

‘I wanted to be a doctor, but my mom was like, ‘It’s really hard and it’s going to take 10 years,’ so I was like ‘OK, I’ll just be a lawyer’.’ – Charice Pempengco

‘You will find this hard to believe, but I’ve never laughed as much as I did when I was a corporate lawyer. When you’re working 16 hours a day for months at a time, you get punchy. Everything and everyone seems hilarious.’ – Susan Cain

‘Like Hillary Clinton before her, Mrs. Obama has always been a working woman. She is a lawyer turned hospital administrator turned political right hand. It is a unique resume.’ – Andre Leon Talley

‘I know a lawyer who’d love to retire and be an assistant coach. I mean, it’s fun.’ – Dean Smith

‘I want to be a lawyer, a dancer, an actress, a mother, a wife, a children’s author, a distance runner, a poet, a pianist, a pet store owner, an astronaut, an environmental and humanitarian activist, a psychiatrist, a ballet teacher, and the first woman president.’ – Rachel Corrie

‘Paul Robeson was an athlete, Rutgers valedictorian, lawyer, writer, actor in movies and plays, great voice – a black male doing it all, back when some people thought he shouldn’t. One reason I do all the things I do is to break stereotypes that people can only do certain things.’ – Dhani Jones

‘My own basketball background was ripping up my ACL in a lawyer’s league.’ – David Stern

‘Gaining my education from practical experience certainly benefited me. If I had gone on to be a lawyer, my life wouldn’t have been anywhere near as interesting.’ – Lindsay Fox

‘When I told my parents I wanted to be an actor, my mom was, like, ‘I think I heard you say lawyer.” – Maz Jobrani

‘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.’ – Elliott Abrams

‘I studied to be a lawyer, and after that I did something, obviously, completely different. With change, you learn something. If you do the same thing over and over again, you never learn anything.’ – Andrea Bocelli

‘Actually, acting turned out to be the perfect job for me, because I had a lot of different interests. I thought about being a priest at one point. I thought about being a teacher. I thought about being a lawyer. But I think acting is probably the best job for me.’ – John C. Reilly

‘I considered a lot of different jobs as a kid. I thought about becoming a priest or a lawyer. My father had a big linen-supply business and I considered working for him. What dawned on me was: ‘If I’m an actor, I get to do the fun parts of every job!’ Without having to go to four years of law school.’ – John C. Reilly

‘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.’ – Ed Speleers

‘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 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

‘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

‘People have said I can come off a little trial-lawyerish. I tell people I never actually became a lawyer, but I play one at City Hall.’ – Christine Quinn

‘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 actually don’t want to be an actor for the rest of my life. I’d like to go on to be a lawyer or a doctor, and I definitely would like to get into politics.’ – Noah Gray-Cabey

‘One woman told me that every time she wears Lanvin, men fall in love with her. Another told me she wore Lanvin to face her husband’s lawyer because she felt protected. If I can make men fall in love with women and if I can protect women, I think I can die peacefully.’ – Alber Elbaz

‘I never had an existential moment when I asked myself what I was going to do. I always wanted to be a lawyer, and I knew exactly the kind of lawyer I wanted to be.’ – Alan Dershowitz

‘A good lawyer knows how to shut up when he’s won his case.’ – Alan Dershowitz

‘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.’ – Caterina Murino

‘My first ‘Daily Show’ piece was pretending I had this terrible immigrant journey, so I went to talk to an immigration lawyer who would help out people, and I ran into him in Penn Station about three months after I’d gotten the green card. I said, ‘I got my green card yesterday.’ And he hugged me because he understood that level of relief.’ – John Oliver

‘I’m not a lawyer, but I do know this: we need to protect our ability to tell controversial stories.’ – Robert Redford

‘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

‘On some planet, I probably could have been a lawyer. On some planet, I could have been somebody in advertising.’ – Stone Gossard

‘When I was at school, I wanted to be a lawyer.’ – Frank Lampard

‘I played a lawyer in a movie, so, many times I think I am a lawyer. And clearly I’m not a lawyer, because I got arrested.’ – Reese Witherspoon

‘Had there not been a Mary Todd, there would not have been an Abraham Lincoln. She found him when he was a young lawyer and really a bumpkin. No one knew of him, but she recognized his brilliance.’ – Sally Field

‘I’ve learned a lot with every character, everything from being a cop, to a lawyer to a tattoo artist. And underneath that stuff, I’ve been really able to find myself through the characters. It’s served as a cheap form of emotional therapy.’ – Sarah Shahi

‘My dad was an immigrant kid and a Democrat and a Jew, and we didn’t know any Republicans in our group. So I grew up Democratic. My dad was a labor lawyer – a very hardworking guy, a one-horse labor lawyer – and then I went to hippie college and lived in the bubble.’ – David Mamet

‘My dad was a labour lawyer, and the ideas that I grew up with – bad management, bad capitalism, robber barons – when I applied this to my own life, I saw that we are all on both sides of the coin.’ – David Mamet

‘I was a trial lawyer. At the same time, I was a teacher. I taught about the political and social content of film for American University. Then I left and became a teacher at the University of California at Santa Cruz. I taught about the political and social content of film, but I also taught a course in law for undergraduates.’ – Ben Stein

‘For decades, many blacks were reluctant to pursue a profession that was associated with servitude. If you went to school, it was to become a lawyer or doctor. Older generations didn’t understand why one would spend money to learn how to chop, peel, dice, and saute vegetables when that trade could be taught at home.’ – Marcus Samuelsson

‘I’m a lawyer. I go for due process; I go for fairness and equity – these values mean a lot to me.’ – Mohamed ElBaradei

‘Acting is seductive. It looks so much fun. I did dally with other things. I did pupillage in a law firm, but I didn’t like the look of how many files the lawyer I was working with had to take home every night. It looked like a hideous amount of work, when actors were having nice lunches and discussing books.’ – Nina Conti

‘I considered going into business or becoming a lawyer – not for the money, but for the thrill of problem-solving.’ – Lisa Randall

‘My father was very chic. My mum was always encouraging me. Some parents would say, ‘Why don’t you be a lawyer, a doctor, or something more important?’ They never said that.’ – Carine Roitfeld

‘Everyone wants to be paid well – I know that I certainly do. But there are lots of other satisfactions that we get from our work. To feel needed. To feel accomplishment. To believe that our work matters. Being a lawyer gives you a rare chance to experience that kind of success.’ – Jeffrey Toobin

‘My mum thought my TV and film addiction was laziness. If you’re an immigrant, you know you’ll never be an accepted part of society, but you hope your children will be, and you try to make them essential to the community in a practical way – being a doctor or a lawyer. Acting was beyond their comprehension.’ – Sanjeev Bhaskar

‘The rules of game shows limit stuff so much. I remember on ‘Money From Strangers,’ being in the van – not even performing – and there was a lawyer there the entire time. ‘No, you can’t give money for that. Yes, you can give money for that. That’s a partial answer. That’s a full answer.” – Kurt Braunohler

‘I told my parents I was going to be a doctor and then a lawyer, but I never believed it and never tried.’ – Dinaw Mengestu

‘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.’ – Dinaw Mengestu

‘I’m always amazed how many politicians have a very unlikely story, and when I talk to groups of students, I remind them that not everybody who gets into politics is a lawyer or went to school to study it. We all come to it for different reasons.’ – Chellie Pingree

‘The announcement that I was going to be an actor was made when was I was 10 years old. And that didn’t go down all that well, but I had a lot of years to butter up my parents. My parents have mellowed quite a bit, but, growing up, there was a sense that the only real professions were doctor, engineer, lawyer. Those were your choices.’ – Reggie Lee

‘I still feel that in India we look upon sports as a recreational activity – which it is – but people have to understand that there is a career in sports. It’s not just necessary to be a doctor or a lawyer or an engineer, as most of us Indians appear to think that our children should grow up to be.’ – Abhishek Bachchan

‘In the summer of 1966, I went to Mississippi to be in the heart of the civil-rights movement, helping people who had been thrown off the farms or taken off the welfare roles for registering to vote. While working there, I met the civil-rights lawyer I later married – we became an interracial couple.’ – Alice Walker

‘I think there is something so compelling about the truth that whether you’re a lawyer or judge or an actor, when you get at that truth, it connects with people on a particular level that I think makes your art more viable.’ – Sarah Jones

‘Atticus Finch. That’s who I want to be when I grow up. He’s the greatest guy ever – a good dad, a good lawyer, doing the right thing. And he knows he’s not supposed to win, but he’s doing it anyway.’ – Sean Patrick Maloney

‘I’d done all the things I thought a person had to do in order to be successful and fulfilled, like getting a great education and becoming a lawyer, and yet there was zero spark in my life. But there was no light-bulb moment. It was gradual. In the early 1990s, I decided to experiment and try some new ways of living.’ – Robin S. Sharma

‘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 have the best agent, manager, publicist, acting coach, and lawyer. Without them, I wouldn’t have the opportunities that I’ve had.’ – Rochelle Aytes

‘I had aspirations to do different things with my life. I wanted to play soccer. I wanted to be a lawyer. Serendipity.’ – Pete Wentz

‘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

‘I really honestly can’t see myself as a lawyer. It’s pretty much safe to say I’ll never become one.’ – Vance Joy

‘If we are to celebrate the giants in Australian public life, then Robert Garran must be among them. A lawyer and passionate advocate of Federation, Garran was one of several hands that drafted our constitution.’ – Anthony Albanese

‘I started out as a lawyer and came in laterally to Goldman Sachs. So I learned myself that life is unpredictable. That you really should, in terms of your career, try to be excellent at what you’re doing. I think if you focus on your job, and you focus on being broad in the context of your job, the next jobs follow from that.’ – Lloyd Blankfein

‘New York state ethics rules prohibit lawyers from soliciting gifts from clients ‘for the benefit of the lawyer or a person related to the lawyer.” – Bill Dedman

‘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.’ – Gillian Jacobs

‘When your parents are Middle Eastern immigrants, you have three choices. You can become a doctor, a lawyer or an engineer.’ – Michael Mina

‘Clarence Darrow, America’s best-known trial lawyer, was also one of American history’s most skilled orators.’ – Jill Lepore

‘One minute I was a clapped-out, two-guinea, legal-aid lawyer, and the next minute I was in parliament.’ – David Lange

‘I was the only child, and I know my father had certain thoughts about me. He was a lawyer and extremely literary, but he would have been much happier if I had wanted to be a lawyer, a scientist, an engineer. But what I wanted to do was read.’ – Robert Gottlieb

‘The inherited tradition is that we don’t tell stories about slavery from the perspective of the slave. It’s told through the president or the lawyer.’ – Chiwetel Ejiofor

‘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

‘I played a lawyer once, and I had about three or four weeks before we shot, so I was able to go to court and watch lawyers at work. Some were good lawyers and some were bad lawyers, but it was essential. The more time you have to prepare, the better. Always.’ – Ben Bass

‘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

‘I’m kind of floating out there as an artist. I’m in a safe place where I can play a girlfriend or a best friend or a mommy or a lawyer, but a huge part of me is unused. I’m classically trained, historically inclined and somewhat revolutionary by nature, so I’m frustrated as an artist.’ – Nicole Ari Parker

‘When I’m clean-shaven and bathed, I look like a lawyer.’ – John Benjamin Hickey

‘I remember in high school thinking that I wanted to be a lawyer, and now I realize I saw that movie ‘And Justice for All’ when I was a kid and thought, ‘That’s what lawyers do, and I want to get up and yell and scream in the middle of a courtroom.” – Aaron Douglas

‘I told my parents I wanted to be an actress years before I wrapped my head around what my dad did for a living. It’s not easy to explain the job of the television journalist, especially when a lot of my friends’ dads had jobs that were a lot easier to explain, like a lawyer, a banker or a doctor.’ – Allison Williams

‘Now I have an agent, a manager, a lawyer, a publicist, all the king’s horses and all the king’s men.’ – Christian McKay

‘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’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

‘Ask any experienced defense lawyer: the real risks are for an accused person who is innocent. A guilty defendant has many more options available.’ – Andrew Vachss

‘I grew up in the Justice Department. I served 12 years as a line lawyer in the public integrity section. This department under me will not have any kind of political interference. I will not allow political interference in the Justice Department. Those who might attempt to do that will be rebuffed.’ – Eric Holder

‘Being a lawyer, even in a city as large as Chicago, is like being a citizen of a small town. I love watching the life of the town play out. You know, the rise and fall of individual lives in the entire community is just fascinating to me.’ – Scott Turow

‘I trained as a writer before I became a lawyer. I was headed for a life as an English professor, but that just wasn’t me. I’m not a scholar; I didn’t have a scholar’s attitude toward literature.’ – Scott Turow

‘In the view of some people, you can only believe in civil rights if you work as a civil rights lawyer. I just don’t buy that.’ – Deval Patrick

‘You can get a lawyer with two months off or a New York socialite who wants to play at being Lewis and Clark and put them up there, but Everest is still in charge; it can still kick butt.’ – Jon Krakauer

‘I was a lawyer for 10 years, and when you’re in law, things really have to get done, or somebody sues you. It’s a great trick.’ – Stephan Pastis

‘I was a lawyer for 12 years in New York and Sweden.’ – Greg Poehler

‘In May 2013, my lawyer Dmitry Dinze filed a complaint about the conditions at PC-14 with the prosecutor’s office. The deputy head of the colony, Lieutenant Colonel Kupriyanov, instantly made conditions at the camp unbearable.’ – Nadezhda Tolokonnikova

‘I wanted to be a lawyer. I love that job; I don’t know why.’ – Louis Garrel

‘The only thing that seemed to me I could do in such a way that no one else could was acting. I thought, I can be a doctor, but there’s going to be someone else who is just as good or better. I can be a lawyer, which I still sometimes think I would love to be, but I think there’s someone who can do it just as good or better.’ – Marcia Gay Harden

‘It took me a while to understand the meaning of a franchise: the reasons why you see lawyer, doctor, cop shows. It’s not because anyone in their right mind says, ‘You know, what’s the most fascinating thing in the world?’ It’s because you need something new that happens every week in a frame.’ – Amy Bloom

‘I never believed in pushing my kids. My dad was very unhappy I wasn’t going to be a doctor, but I couldn’t stand to see the sight of blood. And I wanted to be a lawyer since I was in seventh or eighth grade.’ – Jerry Reinsdorf

‘My parents have mellowed quite a bit, but, growing up, there was a sense that the only real professions were doctor, engineer, lawyer. Those were your choices.’ – Reggie Lee

‘I try and tell all the kids that I meet that hope to be amazing one day and be a professional athlete or a doctor or a lawyer or whatever they want to be. I tell them they can do all that because Tourette’s won’t stop them.’ – Tim Howard

‘My father was a professor of folklore, and my mother was a teacher until she was married. I had a good relationship with them, and the only argument we had was when I went to university and wanted to go into the theater instead of studying to be a lawyer.’ – Max von Sydow

‘I was a pretty terrible lawyer. A really, really terrible lawyer.’ – Elizabeth Strout

‘My dream job was to work in an ice cream shop. Two weeks and five pounds later, I realized it wasn’t for me. For many years, I had planned to be a corporate lawyer. As luck would have it, other than a summer internship, I didn’t end up doing that either.’ – Safra A. Catz

‘The lawyer refused to tell me my brother’s name, and my colleagues started a betting pool. The leading candidate: John Travolta. I secretly hoped for a literary descendant of Henry James – someone more talented than I: someone brilliant without even trying.’ – Mona Simpson

‘Even when I’m playing a lawyer or a doctor, I want to play a person. A human being.’ – J. August Richards

‘I was interested in getting courtroom experience. When I was a young lawyer, the only way I could get real courtroom experience was in the criminal law field.’ – Robert Shapiro

‘I’m a lawyer who, on occasion, represents celebrities.’ – Robert Shapiro

‘Often I play, especially on television, a lot of smart lawyer people and cerebral types.’ – Laila Robins

‘I’m not better than other politicians, but I’m different because I got into the game much later in life, after I had raised a family, after I had written a book, after I had been a successful lawyer. It’s different when you get into this business after you’ve led a full life. I don’t want to be a big man. I know who I am.’ – Mario Cuomo

‘I do not enjoy being away from Richmond, my friends of a lifetime, and my home… I do not enjoy working 6 days a week and almost every night at a time when I had planned to be tapering off. There are compensations which appeal to any lawyer who is proud of his profession. The Supreme Court is an awesome place.’ – Lewis F. Powell, Jr.

‘I was determined to become a criminal lawyer and help look after the poor.’ – Kerry Greenwood

‘I saw myself as a trailblazer in the 1980s as a female lawyer in the City. It was exciting, as women were outnumbered by men five to one. But while I had this sense of trailblazing, in reality, I wasn’t pushing boundaries; it was just a personal myth I’d created, as I was doing a job I wasn’t enjoying.’ – Michelle Paver

‘I came up professionally as a lawyer, and when you’re a lawyer, writing a 50-page brief in one night is just another day at the office. You learn to make choices really quickly, and you learn how to get thoughts down very quickly.’ – Marc Guggenheim

‘I am married to a happy camper. He’s a criminal lawyer who thinks people are inherently good and will befriend him. His father, at 93, is the same way.’ – Susan Isaacs

‘I think, when I was a young lawyer starting out, I was so determined to prove that I was as good as the men and that I could be given the same opportunities as the men, and it wouldn’t make any difference at all that I was a woman. But actually, looking back on it now, I did do things that I wouldn’t recommend to other women at all.’ – Cherie Blair

‘I really am not going to get involved in a discussion about the legal position of the Iraq war. I am not the person to do that because I am not sufficiently impartial as a lawyer about this, because it’s a matter that is of interest to the person that I am closest to in the world.’ – Cherie Blair

‘I was so intent as a young lawyer on beating the men at their own game that I didn’t take any real maternity leave with my three younger children. It is only looking back that I realise I wasn’t beating the system but reinforcing it.’ – Cherie Blair

‘You had to have a unanimous jury verdict, and one percent of contributory negligence barred all recovery. It was so satisfying to realize I could do it. And I’ll tell you what motivated me: competitiveness. I was betting on me. That’s what a contingent-fee lawyer does.’ – Joe Jamail

‘I was taught that a lawyer was supposed to be a custodian of the community’s legal and ethical sense.’ – Joe Jamail

‘I didn’t go to law school to become a lawyer, per se – let’s just say I was leaning in to some strong suggestions from my parents – but my nebulous goals of someday becoming a writer were just that, nebulous.’ – Rachel Sklar

‘I find the term ‘workaholic’ to be distasteful because it reminds me of the harried-looking lawyers I recall chained to their desks through nights and weekends during my lawyer days years ago.’ – Rachel Sklar

‘I’m from Iowa Falls, Iowa. My dad was a small-town lawyer, and my mom was a pharmacist. She worked at Swartz Drug. I have five older brothers.’ – Patrick Whitesell

‘Let us suppose you become a craneman. Suppose you become a clerk in a lawyer’s office. Give the best that is in you. Let nothing stand in the way of your going on.’ – Charles M. Schwab

‘I had thought about becoming a civil rights lawyer, but I gave it up.’ – Kate Thompson

‘My initial thoughts of becoming a lawyer changed in high school as I became more attracted to math and science and began talking about being an engineer.’ – Oliver E. Williamson

‘You just have to find a lawyer that won’t let you sign certain things – and I mean the fine print, because I was gone from Phil Spector and signed with Gamble and Huff in Philadelphia, and Phil bought my record contract back from them.’ – Darlene Love

‘As the state’s top lawyer, I am empowered to protect nonprofit donors from fraudulent solicitations and charitable assets from misuse.’ – Eric Schneiderman

‘Every musician in the known universe has signed a bad piece of paper, myself included. But it’s really very simple. You’re the artist. It’s your picture that’s going on the CD cover, nobody else’s. Protect yourself. Get a good lawyer. You’ll kick yourself later if you don’t.’ – Bun E. Carlos

‘Being a doctor, lawyer in war-torn countries isn’t easy when the infrastructure isn’t there. The money, the food and education is not always accessible to achieve those dreams.’ – Brandon Stanton

‘Before MS moved in on me, I’d worked for seven years as a city lawyer, as the editor of a literary magazine, and before the age of 20, I’d also worked as a cadet journalist and as an assistant director in both film and TV. And then, after the lesions of MS, both on my spine and in my brain, I was the opposite of bionic.’ – M. J. Hyland

‘In the last analysis, our every right is only worth what our lawyer makes it worth.’ – Robert Kennedy

‘I love my dad and respect him and miss him, but I never hung around my father that much because my dad was a lawyer and engineer, and he really didn’t understand what I was about. I was supposed to go to law school at UCLA – I was admitted – and instead of going to law school, I went on the road with a band.’ – Robert David Hall

‘Much of my work strikes me as pretty unified: as a lawyer, working in several areas, I have thought about how to promote freedom of speech broadly for everyone.’ – Marvin Ammori

‘Unlike other professions – doctor, lawyer, teacher, journalist, sales clerk, stock broker – when a cop makes a bad mistake, it could mean someone is dead. They take home mental baggage unlike anything carried in almost every other job.’ – Mike Barnicle

‘I think people sometimes confuse ‘catchy’ with something that should automatically be a hit in today’s world. I mean, obviously we write a lot of stuff that’s catchy, that sticks in your head. But that doesn’t necessarily mean that middle-school kids are going to want to listen to a song about a lawyer or a Subaru or whatever.’ – Adam Schlesinger

‘A surgeon wouldn’t sell his tools. A lawyer doesn’t sell his law books. I’m not going to sell my horse. I’m a sportsman.’ – Ian Millar

‘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 start out with the assumption that a lawyer in a criminal case is going to be incompetent – substantially so. I find my assumption to be rarely wrong. Yet society starts out with the very opposite assumption.’ – Vincent Bugliosi

‘The reality is that most celebrity defendants are extremely unknowledgeable, naive, and vulnerable, and if they get into trouble, they usually call their lawyer friends who handle criminal cases, and if they don’t know any, they call their business lawyers, who then refer them to lawyer friends of theirs.’ – Vincent Bugliosi

‘There’s no question there’s enough information available to all of us in this society for darn near anything. The problem is the quality of the information, the presentation of it… You shouldn’t have to be a lawyer.’ – Sherrod Brown

‘I am a pretty good lawyer, and I decided to close the office and to enter politics.’ – Tzipi Livni

‘If you are a lawyer, and you want to take on easier cases, you can prosecute traffic violations or something. You’d have a very high rate of success, and you probably could sleep more easily at night. But that’s not what drives me.’ – Amal Clooney

‘I’m a transactional lawyer, which involves a lot of negotiation. If nothing else, that’s given me a good eye for human motivation and frequent case studies in peculiar psychological quirks. I think that’s served me fairly well as a writer.’ – Paul S. Kemp

‘You find a personality whom you think the TV audience will embrace and find a format that is tailor-made for the personality. In the case of Andy Griffith, we moved the personality of a wily country shark – a funny and shrewd guy – into another arena. In this case, he is a lawyer, and it is a dramatic series.’ – Fred Silverman

‘I’m a lawyer. The right to life is important.’ – Jejomar Binay

‘I am a lawyer and 22 years the mayor of Davao City. I served as congressman of the first district for one term, and I was vice mayor to my daughter, Inday.’ – Rodrigo Duterte

‘I actually became a lawyer because I thought you had to be a lawyer in order to get into national politics.’ – Susana Martinez

‘I did flirt with the idea of going to law school, but not for long. Maybe I’ll play a lawyer one day – the beauty of acting is that you can try on so many different roles without having to commit to them in real life.’ – Elizabeth Debicki

‘I have a lot of good role models in my family for things off the court – like my older sister, who’s a lawyer. I don’t like writing papers, but she’s helped me a lot. It’s nice to have an art and business background because they tie together perfectly.’ – Venus Williams

‘It’s so easy to make an Asian person the doctor, the lawyer, the smart kid in school. What’s harder is challenging the norm and hiring Asian actors to play your Average Joe.’ – Vincent Rodriguez III

‘It was one of those early mid-life crises, really. I started asking myself, ‘What is it that I want from my life?’ This question kept haunting me: ‘Do I want to be a lawyer who always wanted to be a writer, or do I actually want to be a writer?’ – Petina Gappah

‘As a kid, I wanted to be a musician but also aspired to be Andy Griffith’s lawyer character, Ben Matlock.’ – John Legend

‘I’ve worked in public education for 30 years – as a teacher, a lawyer and union leader. I’ve visited hundreds of schools and districts. I’ve seen leaders from the classroom to the national stage who have been willing to set aside their differences and do the hard work that’s necessary to create real, enduring change.’ – Randi Weingarten

‘Throughout my career as a lawyer, teacher and labor leader, books have remained my constant companion – stuffed into a briefcase, overflowing on my bedside table, stacked on my desk at work. Books have carried me to distant worlds, opened new doors and made me feel empathy, compassion, anger, fear, joy, acceptance – and everything in between.’ – Randi Weingarten

‘My parents never understood why I didn’t want to be a doctor or lawyer. They’re Cuban immigrants who wanted to give their children the American dream, and, to them, that was more of what ‘the dream’ entailed.’ – Narciso Rodriguez

‘I thought I had everything going for me. I wasn’t listening to nobody. And my dad was like, ‘Uh-uh, you can’t make money from music. You have to be a doctor, a lawyer, engineer. Something that’s going to do something for this world. Music doesn’t do anything.’ And I had to fight that, his passion, and fight the society that I was from.’ – Jidenna

‘I know what it feels like to be paid less – substantially less – than the male lawyer in the office next to me.’ – Kate Brown

‘I just thought it would be awesome to become a lawyer, especially being from a neighborhood seeing the police rough up so many people unnecessarily, people who haven’t done nothing. Growing up with kids from dysfunctional families and stuff, I just felt that some kind of difference could be done. And now I’m getting to do it with music instead.’ – Lukas Forchhammer

‘I never actually sought out an agent or a publishing house. A friend of mine named David Simmer got wind of what I was doing, and he sent one of my books to a literary lawyer in Los Angeles. He loved it, and he sent it to other people, including an agent, and he picked me up, and that’s how ‘Bird Box’ got to where it is now.’ – Josh Malerman

‘If things had gone according to my plans, I’d be a lawyer. I never dreamt of being an actress.’ – Gal Gadot

‘One of the reasons I love the law is because I was raised in family – my grandfather was a lawyer, but more importantly, my grandmother was his secretary. And she taught me that lawyers were some of the most civil, most courteous – and in those days, most courtly – people that she knew.’ – Janet Reno

‘I was tremendously fortunate to be alive and a lawyer, working at a university so I had more flexible hours, when the women’s movement was coming alive and when it became possible to argue successfully for a view of the equal protection clause that included women.’ – Ruth Bader Ginsburg

‘As the lawyer, I found most of it was a matter of research, which I was great at – that’s what I did to death – and then basically persuading people that you’re right, and they’re wrong… I found that the easiest of all the professions to impersonate.’ – Frank Abagnale

‘Whether you want to go into music, whether you want to be a lawyer, whether you want to be President of the United States, the bottom line for all of you is that you have got to get your education.’ – Michelle Obama

‘My parents always said that I would be a lawyer or pilot or doctor – and I always just thought that’s what I would do.’ – Benjamin Clementine

‘I imagine I was supposed to become a lawyer or something. But this was the Depression; the lawyers I saw were all driving cabs. So I thought, ‘Well, if I’m going to be badly off anyway, I might as well be badly off in the theater, where you get used to it.” – Norman Lloyd

‘I have a bag and shoe addiction. If I were a doctor or a lawyer, I’d still have it.’ – Eva Chen

‘In my final year of law school, everything became real. Malaysian TV shows wanted me to perform big concerts. So, after graduating, I decided to go for it. I didn’t think I’d be a good lawyer anyway.’ – Yuna

‘I’m more of an engineer with a law degree than I am a lawyer with an engineering degree in terms of how I think.’ – Ken Cuccinelli

‘When you’re dealing with a big amount of money, you should have your own accountant and your own lawyer.’ – Johnny Van Zant

‘I had cooked a lot in restaurants, in Rocky Point and on golf courses on Long Island, and my mother said, ‘Be a chef,’ and my dad said, ‘Be a lawyer.’ But instead, I auditioned for N.Y.U.’s Tisch School of the Arts.’ – D. B. Sweeney

‘Faith properly informs the religious lawyer or judge, and morality is not in tension with fidelity to the law.’ – William H. Pryor

‘If you didn’t know who I was, if I was to walk out on the street without people knowing who I am, you’d think I’m an accountant or a lawyer.’ – Christopher Guest

‘Latino people have come up to me and said they were motivated to become a lawyer because they saw me play one on TV – and you can’t discount how great it is when they tell me I was the first.’ – Jimmy Smits

‘A lawyer who makes an impression as credible, competent, and civil is one whose thoughts I’ll take seriously.’ – Raymond Kethledge

‘The law seemed to be always what I came back to. I have never, one day in my life as a lawyer, regretted my decision to become a lawyer.’ – Charles T. Canady

‘Being a trial lawyer sounds like glamorous work, but most of your time is spent pushing paper and arguing.’ – Megyn Kelly

‘I had more sexist encounters as a lawyer than I had as a journalist.’ – Megyn Kelly

‘I wasn’t a shrinking violet when I joined Fox News. I didn’t have any power at Fox – I had no power in the TV industry – but I had been a lawyer for nine years who had practiced employment law.’ – Megyn Kelly

‘Every lawyer is an actor. The place where a lawyer’s acting ability shines most is certainly in the courtroom, but it works very well in the boardroom and in the office.’ – Jamey Sheridan

‘I actually spoke to one of the heads of a studio, and he said I confuse middle America. Basically, when they see a black person, they see athlete, they see rapper, or they see criminal or something like that. And then when they hear a British accent, they hear posh, so they hear lawyer or doctor.’ – Ricky Whittle

‘My late mother moved back to her parents’ homeland in the 1990s when Ukraine and Russia, along with the thirteen other former Soviet republics, became independent states. Drawing on her experience as a lawyer in Canada, she served as executive officer of the Ukrainian Legal Foundation, an NGO she helped to found.’ – Chrystia Freeland

‘My mom was like, ‘Get your law degree first, become a lawyer, and then you can tell jokes on the weekends. You can be a lawyer and just throw jokes into your presentations.’ Now she’s like, ‘Listen, you need to come up with new material.’ All of a sudden, my mom’s a critic.’ – Maz Jobrani

‘When I was young, for some reason, I thought a postman’s job was quite cool, and once, I even contemplated becoming a lawyer. Finally, I decided to dabble in something creative like fashion designing or photography. Till I joined college, I had no clue that one day, I will face the camera.’ – Pooja Hegde

‘My mom just wanted me to do anything that was academic, whether it was become a doctor or be a lawyer. Engineering suited her… then I dropped out. It was not what I wanted to do at all; it just felt so unnatural, and I couldn’t put my finger on why. I just knew it wasn’t for me.’ – Ross Butler

‘I’m from a small town, and I thought I would be a lawyer.’ – Matthew Desmond

‘There was a rule, back when I was an education lawyer in Alabama, about visiting public schools: always go on a rainy day so you can see how badly the roofs leak.’ – Adam Cohen

‘There were times when I’d go to lawyer auditions, and everyone’s in a suit, and I’m covered in concrete and paint.’ – Jake McLaughlin

‘As a lawyer, particularly in criminal law, you really do have to try to tell your story to the jury and hope that the judge makes rulings that allows your story to get through.’ – Marcia Clark

‘You learn on the job. When I was a young lawyer and got a case, I knew nothing about the subject. You start reading, you look for the philosophy behind it, and by the time you are actually in a court of law, you are a master.’ – Kapil Sibal

‘I grew up on a ranch in Walla Walla, Washington. Except for one lawyer, I don’t remember anyone in my family being anything else but ranchers.’ – Adam West

‘Daredevil’s religion makes him unique. He’s a vigilante, but he’s also a lawyer – and all the while, he believes only God is capable of bringing people to justice.’ – Charlie Cox

‘I’d say my artistic bent definitely came from my father, who was a trial lawyer. And if you’re smart, you know that a trial lawyer isn’t that different from an actor. He was a poet as well.’ – Omari Hardwick

‘There’s nothing wrong with crooks having lawyers. Everyone is entitled to a lawyer.’ – Sydney Pollack

‘For all of you out there who don’t know what ‘ignoramus’ is, it’s an ignorant lawyer.’ – Gretchen Carlson

‘I didn’t want to do a lawyer. I didn’t want to do forensics. I didn’t want to work in an ER.’ – Eric McCormack

‘My parents thought they were getting an accountant and a lawyer. Instead, they ended up with a PR and an actress.’ – Gemma Chan

‘My childhood ambition was to become a Tooth Fairy. And I do talk about that in my book ‘Is You Okay.’ My mama always told me to say I wanted to be a corporate lawyer, and today I am much closer to being a Tooth Fairy than I ever was a Corporate Lawyer… so hah hah hah hah.’ – GloZell

‘If you grow up saying, ‘I want to be a lawyer,’ everyone says, ‘Let’s give her everything she needs to be a lawyer.’ But if you say ‘I want to be an artist or a dancer or a painter,’ it’s, ‘Oh, she’ll grow out of it.” – Angela Robinson

‘I thought I would spend the rest of my life being a good tax lawyer. The interesting thing about being a tax lawyer is, none of your clients are poor. I had clients come to me and say, ‘Can you help us make investments?’ That led to me getting into the real estate business.’ – Jerry Reinsdorf

‘I got an English degree in college and then went to law school because I didn’t know what else to do. I was a lawyer in Houston, Texas. I started writing plays and screenplays, and after about three years of practicing, I decided I would move to Los Angeles and give it a shot.’ – John Lee Hancock

‘We’re trying to make sure that financial advisers act like lawyers and doctors. When you go to a lawyer or doctor, they have an obligation to put your best interests first. Financial advisers don’t.’ – Tom Perez

‘When I was a practising lawyer in the family court, there were too many judges who, when you left their courtroom, you didn’t know whether you’d won or whether you’d lost.’ – Judy Sheindlin

‘My mother worked for a white family that lived in one of the mansions on the beach. The husband in the family was a lawyer; he worked for a firm in New Orleans.’ – Jesmyn Ward

‘The genesis of Donald Trump’s relationship with Paul Manafort begins with Roy Cohn. That Roy Cohn: Joe McCarthy’s heavy-lidded henchman, lawyer to the Genovese family. During the ’70s, Trump and his father hired Cohn as their lawyer to defend the family against a housing discrimination suit.’ – Franklin Foer

‘When it comes to my health, I would rather my doctor base her decisions on science rather than what she, or some lawyer, thinks will stand up in court.’ – Richard Thaler

‘My father was a corporate lawyer. He went to work in a suit and tie. He had a secretary. He left the house before seven A.M. His professional life felt generic, like a backdrop, a signifier more than a life: office job.’ – Carrie Brownstein

‘When I write about Mickey Haller as the Lincoln lawyer, I totally see Matthew McConaughey because he took that character when that character was still fairly new to me – only two or three years old – when I knew McConaughey was going to play him. He’s also the same age, the right age, in comparison to the book.’ – Michael Connelly

‘I could not have been happier with ‘The Lincoln Lawyer.’ They got the essence, and the casting, starting with McConaughey, was just perfect.’ – Michael Connelly

‘In the U.K.’ – Timothy Morton

‘I’ve been to some Hollywood parties where things have happened, and people have probably needed to get a good lawyer.’ – Dash Mihok

‘I was happy being a lawyer, and the thought of becoming a model or even actor never came to my mind, even though I knew I looked good.’ – Shaheer Sheikh

‘I used to be a human rights lawyer and acted for many black Londoners who had been victims of discrimination.’ – Sadiq Khan

‘I’ve been blessed – every job I’ve had I’ve loved, whether it’s as a lawyer, MP, cabinet minister.’ – Sadiq Khan

‘As a lawyer, I’ve dealt with really serious offences, and the public rarely hear what the true impact is on the victims’ families. When you hear it from the mouths of victims, your entire approach changes, because it could happen to anybody, and they articulate that in such a powerful way.’ – Robert Rinder

‘I realise I’m known for doing big, very serious cases, but fundamentally, any lawyer will tell you that even the most complex trials come down to the same questions. Are people telling porky pies? Are bank accounts dodgy? Is someone trying to get one over on you? It’s my job to listen and then decide.’ – Robert Rinder

‘I finally said, ‘I don’t care if you’re the first person in your family to be a lawyer.’ Everybody thought what I was doing was really exciting, but it was not moving me one bit. And that’s when I decided to join city government in Chicago, and that changed my life.’ – Valerie Jarrett

‘As a lawyer, as a former prosecutor, and as a son and grandson of foreign-service officers who tried to represent American democracy in foreign and dangerous places, the idea that this crowd of crooked fossil-fuel types is able to take over and run our democracy like we are a banana republic – I find that repellent.’ – Sheldon Whitehouse

‘Scientists want to know the evidence behind a statement; they want reproducible tests and verifiable facts. There is a big difference in the thought process of a trial lawyer who is interested not in what’s true but what he can convince a jury is true.’ – Bill Foster

‘My dad spent most of the ’50s and early ’60s actually acting as sort of an advance man for the Justice Department, as a civil rights lawyer. So it was actually reading his papers after he passed away a few years ago that first started me thinking about this… What fraction of your life do you spend in service to your fellow man?’ – Bill Foster

‘After I quit being a lawyer in ’95, I was having a lot of trouble writing. Then I read somewhere that Willa Cather read a chapter of the Bible every day before she started work. I thought, ‘Okay, I’ll try it.’ Before each writing session, I started to read the Bible like a writer, thinking about language, character, and themes.’ – Min Jin Lee

‘When I was a little girl growing up in Elmira, I always wanted to be a lawyer.’ – Jeanine Pirro

‘Basically, I come to Washington a couple of times a year, sort of on a strictly business basis: talk to my counterparts at the Federal Trade Commission, of the DOJ, give an occasional talk, very often in a lawyer or academic environment.’ – Margrethe Vestager

‘I get the feeling that characters are written female when they have to be, and all the other characters are male, and it doesn’t occur to somebody that the lawyer, the best friend, the landlord, whoever, can be female.’ – Geena Davis

‘As a lawyer, many a time I took up difficult and sensitive cases dealing with minorities’ and women’s rights. Yes, I constantly receive threats, and to be very honest, at times it is very scary. But I have to continue my work.’ – Asma Jahangir

‘I was a pretty independent kid. I thought maybe I’d be a veterinarian or an environmental lawyer.’ – Mark Parker

‘I had fantasies of being a European lawyer, but I quickly realised I probably just had fantasies of wearing a raincoat and carrying a briefcase and driving a BMW. I thought that would be cool.’ – Mark Strong

‘I’m Greek-American, and I come from an immigrant-type background, and Greek-American parents want you to be a doctor or a lawyer. Because that’s how you make money, and it’s very respectable.’ – Steve Zissis

‘I’d love to do something hard-hitting, like a lawyer or a policewoman, something like that. That would be nice.’ – Rachel Shenton

‘After graduating from Brown, I went to law school and became a corporate lawyer in New York City.’ – Andrew Yang

‘One thing I disliked about being a lawyer was billing for my time.’ – Andrew Yang

‘If you send emails to your spouse or your lawyer or family members, you want to have these messages be confidential.’ – Alex Stamos

‘Everybody comes to the planet with certain gifts. It may be writing, it may be acting, it may be singing, it may be being a lawyer, it may be making a beautiful cabinet, it may be being a spectacular dry cleaner. It could be anything. We all have gifts in different areas.’ – Brian Stokes Mitchell

‘I had originally wanted to be a lawyer. Even when I went to college and majored in engineering, I still thought I’d get a law degree. Then I started taking electrical engineering classes where I saw some of the innovation happening around computers and solid-state technology in the mid ’80s.’ – Kimberly Bryant

‘I studied law, I got an alright degree, and then I was going to go and do something called an LPC, which is a Legal Practice Course, which qualifies you as a lawyer. But I didn’t end up doing it, because I went to drama school instead.’ – Adeel Akhtar

‘I’ll tell you who I really like – the lawyer Imran Khan. I did my dissertation on stop-and-search powers, and I put in loads of quotes from him. Years later, when I was selling insurance over in Harley Street, he rang up and asked for insurance. He told me his name, and I asked him if he was the lawyer, and he said yes.’ – Adeel Akhtar

‘My mom has never cared if I did sports or not. Obviously, she’s proud of me, and she loves the fact that I’m an Olympian and she’s got these trinkets to hang around with the medals and whatnot. But if I wanted to do whatever, if I wanted to be a doctor or a lawyer or whatever, she was going to support me regardless.’ – Elana Meyers

‘My father was a lawyer. I was fascinated to become a lawyer, too.’ – Sridevi

‘I didn’t know anything about the fashion industry until I met the stylist Simon Foxton on a Tube. I was 16, on my way to Kingsway College, and then my whole world opened up. Before that, like in every African family, you are meant to be a lawyer.’ – Edward Enninful

‘Coming from a family who put a lot of emphasis on academics, I always thought I was going to be a lawyer.’ – Edward Enninful

‘I wanted to be a writer, and my mother was like, ‘No, why don’t you become a lawyer?’ That sort of thing.’ – Tom King

‘I wanted to become a lawyer because I saw Kelly McGillis on ‘The Accused.’ ‘Grey’s Anatomy,’ ‘L.A. Law,’ ‘Ally McBeal’ – all of these have inspired women to go into law. I think the opposite is happening in technology.’ – Reshma Saujani

‘There was a brief period in college where I flirted with the idea of becoming a lawyer because my father was one. But I was cured of it rather swiftly.’ – Laeta Kalogridis

‘I have a brother who’s a schoolteacher, a sister who’s a graphic artist, a brother who is a lawyer. I have a brother who’s a carpenter.’ – Ronan Farrow

‘I am not a lawyer or an expert on the Constitution. But as the chairman and CEO of a major health plan, I had a ringside seat to the entire health-care reform process.’ – Ron Williams

‘I’m not a lawyer, thank God. Not that there’s anything wrong with it. I’ve never had the brain power for it. I was not the kind of guy who could learn case law.’ – Michael McKean

‘In my country where I was born, Guyana, we push more for education. It’s more being a lawyer, doctor, teacher, or scientist.’ – Letitia Wright

‘As a first-generation American, my parents expected that I would go on to have pretty tactical higher-education-type jobs – doctor, lawyer, engineer. Those were the three options. My dad was not at all open to the idea that there would not be a higher education in my future.’ – Bozoma Saint John

‘Throughout her career, many women would view Mrs. Clinton as an imperfect vessel for the feminist cause. She was a Yale-educated lawyer who, at the height of the 1970s women’s movement, moved to Arkansas to put her own ambitions on hold in furtherance of her husband’s career.’ – Amy Chozick

‘I was pre-med for a semester, and then I got a C- in organic chemistry and was washed out of that program. Then I imagined I’d be a lawyer. I was gonna go to law school.’ – Jay Chandrasekhar

‘I think a lot of writers spend years just getting up the courage to write because it seems like such a fantasy of a profession. My dad saved me all that time by making me think, ‘Oh, anyone can be a writer. It’s like being a firefighter or a lawyer.” – B. J. Novak

‘I always thought I’d become an immigration lawyer.’ – Su-chin Pak

‘I think it takes a unique temperament for a lawyer who wants to go to a start-up, because generally, by nature, it’s a high-risk environment.’ – Belinda Johnson

‘A lawyer wants to get his client off the hook. And even if he knows the client is guilty, he is going to find ways and means of getting him off the hook.’ – Mahathir Mohamad

‘Dave Foley and I have been friends for a very long time. We both actually have the same lawyer in Toronto.’ – Jason Priestley

‘I was pre-med at Glasgow University. I was from a family who were of the mind that if you were clever enough to be a doctor or a lawyer, why wouldn’t you be?’ – John Tiffany

‘I want to study law, become a lawyer, and work in Afghanistan for human rights.’ – Sonita Alizadeh

‘I don’t want to be a musician forever. I want to keep going to school and become a lawyer for women’s rights and also use the law to help women.’ – Sonita Alizadeh

‘My dad was a civil rights lawyer, and he was actually defending conscientious objectors to the Vietnam War.’ – Cecile Richards

‘My mom’s a lawyer. She was part of the group that wrote the bar exam. My father is a dentist. They’ve always worked.’ – Daniel Schwartz

‘With Pavement, we had no managers and never had a lawyer. We got lucky with not signing any bad deals.’ – Stephen Malkmus

‘Stories let you be the hero, the doctor, the lawyer, the gladiator. They let you go on a journey.’ – Channing Dungey

‘I’m a lawyer by training, of course.’ – Ajit Pai

‘It’s not like the average lawyer or doctor is a physical Adonis. But it is amazing how many intelligent, obsessed people are driven in their physical regimen as well.’ – Jason Winston George

‘I can’t tell you how many times I get into a taxicab in New York or Los Angeles, and I’m talking to somebody who is a recent immigrant who was a doctor or lawyer or engineer or professor in the country they just came from. They’re starting over again in life, and I think the majority of people out there can relate to that.’ – Andrew Zimmern

‘When I signed my first record deal, I brought it over to my lawyer to look over.’ – Soccer Mommy

‘You don’t have to be in our industry to have a panic attack about your career when you’re pregnant. Even if you’re a lawyer, you can think, ‘I’m scared to take time off because I don’t want to get passed by.” – Melanie Scrofano

‘I’m low key at times and really learning as a political figure to give more – show more of myself and be less buttoned down, which I was when I was a lawyer and I was when I was a federal regulator.’ – Richard Cordray

‘I came to America when I was six. In true African form, my parents wanted me to be a doctor or lawyer or engineer.’ – Yvonne Orji

‘After years as a civil rights lawyer, I rarely find myself speechless.’ – Michelle Alexander

‘It used to be that what was going to be written on my tombstone was ‘Benjamin Wittes, former ‘Washington Post’ editorial writer,’ or ‘Benjamin Wittes, who wasn’t even a lawyer.’ Now it’s just, like, ‘Benjamin Wittes, who’s a friend of Jim Comey’s.” – Benjamin Wittes

‘You got to have the right lawyer and good management. I went years and years without management and even a good lawyer; I used to handle contracts on my own, and it was definitely corners that they would cut. It wouldn’t have happened if I had a good lawyer behind me.’ – Statik Selektah

‘When my parents were divorced in the late ’70s, early ’80s, the climate was that you should screw over your ex as much as possible – get the worst lawyer in the world, all that. That’s not what people are out to do anymore. It feels cruddy to try and destroy each other just because you’re breaking up.’ – Michaela Watkins

‘Get a good lawyer because sometimes it’s hard to understand what you might or might not be agreeing to.’ – Goapele

‘I would tell people my dad was all the characters he’s played in movies, because once you say he’s a lawyer or something, they move on.’ – John David Washington

‘Both my parents were high school teachers, and they were beloved high school teachers, so I constantly meet people through my dad’s life where they’d be like, ‘Your dad changed my life. He’s the reason I became a lawyer. He’s the reason I started writing. He’s the only reason I stayed in school.” – Janet Varney

‘I followed my dreams and went to Hollywood. My mom was like, ‘Wait a minute – I thought you were going to be a lawyer.’ I said, ‘You know what, Mom? You’re going to have to see me play one on TV.” – Nafessa Williams

‘All my life, I call myself wanting to be a lawyer because of Clair Huxtable. But the real dream was to be an actress.’ – Nafessa Williams

‘I was never going to be a doctor or a lawyer, so being a musician seemed to be the best of what was on offer.’ – Lemmy

‘I think I always kind of wanted to be a musician but never dared to say it out loud because I never thought it was possible. I wanted to be a teacher, a lawyer, a doctor – I wanted to be a lot of other things growing up.’ – Sigrid

‘I was very smart in school. I had straight As and was going to graduate high school at 16 and start college. My dad wanted me to be a lawyer because I was very opinionated.’ – Dania Ramirez

‘My lawyer is telling me I have to take some responsibility about the welfare of the children. Do I want the kids? Hell no. Does it look good for me to ask for them? Absolutely. I don’t want to look like the woman who gave away her kids and just forgot about them.’ – Debbie Rowe

‘Senior year in college, a kind of confluence of events came together to have me pursue a career in acting. I was planning on being a lawyer; I double majored in history and political science. I took the LSAT and did horribly on it, and that was one thing that made me rethink a new direction.’ – Matt Czuchry

‘In sport, you only see the fighter, but it’s teamwork. Without a good team, you will never be the best. In boxing, you have to work with the best coach, the best lawyer, the best manager, the best doctor. Exactly the same principle applies in politics.’ – Vitali Klitschko

‘I wanted to be in the police force, a teacher, a judge, lawyer, doctor, and other jobs. Of course, my mind changed as I started to face reality.’ – Ji Chang-wook

‘Before stand-up, I didn’t even have an agent. Once I started doing stand-up – boom. I got an agent. In fact, I got three agents. I got a lawyer. Now I get taken seriously.’ – Charlie Murphy

‘I just want to pursue my dream. That is to fight. That is what God put me here to do. He didn’t put me here to be a doctor or a lawyer. He put me here to fight.’ – Tommy Morrison

‘If given that ability, I would definitely be a long-haired, beard person. Ever since third grade, your whole life, there’s always someone who’s like, ‘You better get a haircut.’ It’s no different in acting, especially when you don’t know what role you’re going to do next: a doctor, lawyer, a military guy, or whatever.’ – Donal Logue

‘I hated being a lawyer.’ – Steve Eisman

‘WWE offered me a legends deal. My lawyer looked at it, and it’s basically illegal. It’s not worth the paper that it’s written on.’ – Scott Steiner

‘I will not lobby. I will not be an influence-type lawyer. I’m a professional lawyer.’ – Walter F. Mondale

‘My family was very unsure, and they told me to have a ‘plan B’ – until I did my publishing deal at 21 for over a million dollars. Then I tattooed my neck to prove I’ll never become a lawyer.’ – Blackbear

‘There are lots of similarities between being a writer and a lawyer: to tell a story to a jury, hold their attention, make them laugh, make them like you. But what makes being a barrister less satisfying than being a writer is, finally, that it’s about what someone else wants you to say.’ – John Mortimer

‘I went off to the University of California, Santa Barbara, on a boatload of loans, sights set on becoming a doctor or a lawyer.’ – Katy Tur

‘I worked with an indie filmmaker called Mark Williams, a lawyer who was making a zero-budget family drama called ‘Move Me.” – Karthik Subbaraj

‘It’s totally different playing a lawyer and a detective.’ – Nicola Walker

‘When I became a lawyer, no one asked me if I had spent some time in special ed. All they wanted was a good lawyer.’ – Elijah Cummings

‘Working as a Foreign Office lawyer in 2003, I was less worried by the quibbling over U.N. resolutions on Iraq than the coalition’s capacity to effect positive change.’ – Dominic Raab

‘As a social justice lawyer, I started marches against Trump here in Detroit.’ – Rashida Tlaib

‘I was more interested in journalism and fact-finding than other things, so I didn’t plan to work 30 years as a lawyer.’ – Ari Melber

‘Like any good lawyer, I’m going to maintain a confidentiality of advice offered in confidence.’ – Ari Melber

‘My brother was a radio jockey while I was studying law. I have assisted a lawyer at the High Court. But I decided to give it up. I cleared auditions for radio jockey in the first go, and within a week, I was on air.’ – Aparshakti Khurana

‘As soon as I got out of law school, I went to inner city Newark, New Jersey, to become a housing rights lawyer, because people fought for my housing rights, I was going to pay it forward by fighting for others.’ – Cory Booker

‘Throughout college and law school, as well as in my career as a lawyer and police reform advocate, I’ve faced various toxic combinations of racism, sexism, and homophobia.’ – Lori Lightfoot

‘I have to say that every white-collar criminal defense lawyer knows when the chief financial officer turns state’s evidence, everyone in the executive suite is in a lot of trouble because the chief financial officer knows exactly where the money is coming and going.’ – Richard Painter

‘During my years as a practicing lawyer, it just was part of your study of what Congress was trying to say in their statutes. I never really considered judges or scholars as either those who used legislative history or those who were opposed to it until after I got on the court.’ – John Paul Stevens

‘The German police were actually after me when I was first in Stoke. They had put pictures of my face on the trees in Bremen and said: ‘Find this guy.’ They said I had an ‚Ǩ80 fine to pay or something. But I spoke to my lawyer and I didn’t owe anything.’ – Marko Arnautovic

‘I went with Atlantic because I got a lawyer to look at my contract and my contract was fire.’ – Rico Nasty

‘My background is not typical of a lawyer or a DPP. My dad was a toolmaker before he retired, so he worked in a factory all his life.’ – Keir Starmer

‘There are potentially many offences that journalists could commit in the course of their business. It would be very unhealthy if you had a situation where a journalist felt that they needed to go to their lawyer before they pursued any lead or asked any question.’ – Keir Starmer

‘From my experience both as DPP and previously as a human rights lawyer, I know that human rights and effective protection from terrorism are not incompatible. On the contrary, they go hand in hand.’ – Keir Starmer

‘It does not take a lawyer or even a former federal prosecutor like myself to conclude that investigating Donald Trump’s finances or his family’s finances falls completely outside of the realm of his 2016 campaign and allegations that the campaign coordinated with the Russian government or anyone else.’ – Matthew Whitaker

‘I was a law student when I started acting in plays. I was a real estate lawyer but I continued acting on stage because that is what gave me a lot of happiness.’ – Shraddha Srinath

‘I spent many hours slaving away, day and night, bleary eyed, on multi-million pound takeovers, mergers and acquisitions, and the rest. It could sound glamorous (especially when it involved overseas travel) but often it wasn’t partly because, as a lawyer, you were not the one calling the shots.’ – Chuka Umunna

‘At Chicago I offer a course on Emotion, Reason and the Law that law students just love. But I am not there as a lawyer, my job is to teach philosophy.’ – Martha Nussbaum

‘None of my ambitions were serious as a girl. One week I wanted to be a lawyer, the next a binman.’ – Katie Piper

‘I make no pretence at being well-versed in politics – it is all too often about personalities and emotion – but I do know a thing or two about our constitution, as I once trained to be a lawyer. Even a first-year law student learns that an overriding principle is that parliament is sovereign.’ – Gina Miller

‘I don’t want to have to talk to a lawyer if I want to jam with someone or if I want to sing on someone’s album.’ – Hank Williams III

‘When I was starting out as a barrister in the 1980s, Lord Denning was the most famous judge in the land, and the supposed role model for every lawyer. But not for me.’ – Emily Thornberry

‘President Trump is a defense lawyer’s worst nightmare – and a dream defendant for special counsel Robert Mueller.’ – Asha Rangappa

‘As a lawyer, I can assure you that a lot of document drafting is repetitive, involving cutting and pasting from templates. But the best lawyers bring a unique perspective to the process and anticipate clients’ problems.’ – Ro Khanna

‘Troops fighting for their lives should not have to ask a lawyer sitting in air conditioning 500 miles away for permission to drop a bomb.’ – Erik Prince

‘My parents wanted me to be a lawyer.’ – Nish Kumar

‘We haven’t got those dreams: ‘I wish to become doctor or a lawyer.’ Black people in South Africa have been barred in doing anything that would articulate their cause.’ – John Kani

‘I didn’t go to law school wanting to be a lawyer.’ – Tony West

‘There is no better lawyer than Cristiano Ronaldo.’ – Didier Deschamps

‘I understood at a young age that administrations come and go, but laws stay. So I decided to become a lawyer in order to help create a more just and peaceful world, not just in a fleeting moment but in a way that will endure from one generation to the next.’ – Kerry Kennedy

‘Being a lawyer, it’s like holding a key card to a parallel dimension of rule sets in the world, and it’s lovely to make sure that key continues to work and to continue to brush up on the law every so often.’ – Lisa Joy

‘Obama’s election in 2008 marked a new dawn for hundreds of millions of people looking to an eloquent, constitutional lawyer for ‘Hope’ and ‘Change’ in America. However, it quickly became apparent that Obama had little substance beyond the slogans branded by his campaign.’ – Abby Martin

‘From past experience I wouldn’t go out with another musician. With song writing people can be a bit sensitive. Something completely different, like a lawyer, would be good.’ – Nina Nesbitt

‘Listen, not everybody can afford to get a great lawyer and defend yourself against something that you didn’t do.’ – Lara Trump

‘You don’t even have to be a lawyer to be on the Supreme Court, which I think is hilarious.’ – Shannon Bream

‘My mom wanted me to be like… a doctor, a lawyer. I was with it, being like a lawyer or something, because you make hella money and I wasn’t tryna be broke.’ – Lil Mosey

‘Everyone around me does music, so I just kind of knew. It wasn’t some magical moment. There were loads of other things I wanted to do. I wanted to be a lawyer, for example, because I just love arguing, but it wasn’t on the cards.’ – AJ Tracey

‘The first thing I ever wanted to be was a lawyer, because I love arguing. But I’m very lazy. I’m intelligent, but I’m very lazy, so it seemed like a bit too much.’ – AJ Tracey

‘My mother is a lawyer by profession. Now she has shifted with me in Bombay. I lost my father a long back.’ – Sourabh Raj Jain

‘I think when you start comedy there are some real advantages to being single and in a low-paid job. You have nothing to lose. It’s not like I was a well-paid lawyer when I began. I was earning so little I was able to sell myself to it.’ – Josh Widdicombe

‘I’d always been the kind of lawyer that was attracted back to policy.’ – David Lammy

‘You might be looking for a guy with a six pack that’s 6’9 and is a lawyer that has money. You’re not going to get everything. Some times you have to compromise. Maybe he’s 6’2, has a four pack and is a future lawyer.’ – Ray J

‘I was fined ¬£20,000 for TV interview where I barely said anything. The FA brought an outside barrister in to do me. A big place like the FA, they don’t have their own in-house lawyer?’ – Neil Warnock

‘For a lawyer to shade or slant his legal advice to advance a private agenda is among the gravest betrayals of his solemn duty as an attorney.’ – Eugene Scalia

‘A lawyer should have her facts straight.’ – Kim Zolciak-Biermann

‘I published a thesis about animal rights when I was studying in England in 1991. Back then, I was a human rights lawyer and people condemned me for talking about animal rights when human rights are still not guaranteed. However, human rights are guaranteed in a society where animal rights are secured.’ – Park Won-soon

‘The Attorney General of the United States is, of course, not the president’s lawyer. The AG is supposed to be the attorney for the United States, protecting the rule of law.’ – Heather Cox Richardson

‘Bankers are the most obvious class of closet freeloaders, but they are certainly not alone. Many a lawyer and an accountant wields a similar revenue model.’ – Rutger Bregman

‘Sergei Magnitsky was murdered as my proxy. If Sergei had not been my lawyer, he would still be alive today.’ – Bill Browder

‘My grandmother actually was not a lawyer, but it feels like I was surrounded by lawyers.’ – Meena Harris

‘I know what sexual harassment looks like. I’m also a lawyer by training and am highly aware that these behaviors should have real consequences.’ – Meena Harris

‘Startups are constantly raising money, sometimes before they have even hired a lawyer.’ – Naval Ravikant

‘I’m from Nigerian descent, and the classic Nigerian mentality is ‘Stay in school! You’re going to be a doctor, you’re going to be a lawyer.’ That is what it is. Thankfully my parents knew my situation was different because I definitely didn’t want to be a doctor, I definitely didn’t want to be a lawyer.’ – MNEK

‘I wasn’t raised in a very Western environment. I went to a Chinese-speaking school. In my group of friends, the goal was to be a white-collar worker: an engineer, lawyer, accountant.’ – Nigel Ng

‘My parents, or Asian parents in general, they’re like, ‘You should be a doctor, a lawyer, or a banker’ – all that’s laid out. As a kid that’s what I bought into, which is why I ended up going the corporate route initially.’ – Eric Nam

‘My family was very open. My grandfather was German and a Protestant. My father, a lawyer, was Greek-Catholic and played the violin. My mother was very religious and went to church twice a day. My grandmother was Armenian. So I was raised with three different faiths – that’s why I am so open.’ – Krzysztof Penderecki

‘As a lawyer I did various IPOs and I know the power of our listing rules and the respect that has around the world.’ – Nicky Morgan

‘That image of a lawyer standing up in a criminal case and doing the right thing always stuck with me. I love the idea of building cases and really going after bad guys.’ – Conor Lamb

‘Once upon a time, America was a self-reliant John Wayne society where a man’s gotta do what a man’s gotta do. Now, America has become an over-lawyered society where nobody takes responsibility for mistakes because it is more profitable to claim victimhood and reach for a lawyer.’ – Gavin Esler

‘Practically, every defense lawyer knows that the jury desperately wants to hear from the defendant and that the only reason not to put him on the stand is that he is soooo guilty that every answer he gives after his name will eradicate any shred of reasonable doubt.’ – Lawrence O’Donnell

‘My grandfather, my dad’s dad, he was a lawyer. He was a state legislator. He was the publisher of Oregon’s second largest newspaper. He was a pretty amazing guy.’ – Travis Knight

‘My agent is a vampire, my lawyer is a vampire, they’re all vampires, but they don’t suck your blood, they take your money! Vampires are everywhere. It just depends what they’re running after.’ – Udo Kier

‘I was damn sure that I was not going to be a lawyer or a brain surgeon.’ – Hal Needham

‘Bob asked his lawyer what would happen if he didn’t make a will and she said: ‘Your wife and children will be okay.’ Which was good enough for him.’ – Rita Marley

‘If I have a fever, I take a Crocin but my wife calls a doctor, my mother calls a doctor. Similarly, investing is not something which a doctor or a lawyer or Internet specialist can really understand. Take professional advice, plan.’ – Rakesh Jhunjhunwala

‘Believe me, I’m not longing for the days when I was going to become a lawyer. Especially come tax time.’ – Cris Collinsworth

‘For the role of a lawyer, I made sure I learnt the correct diction and most importantly I made sure I got the lawyer lingo correct.’ – Gurmeet Choudhary

‘The wagering thing for a lawyer is very interesting. Will there be mobile sports wagering? Will there be mobile prop betting? Conceivably, someone sitting in basketball area placing prop bets on a mobile phone while the individual is 10 feet from the court? Some of the possibilities are angst-producing.’ – Oliver Luck

‘I can’t imagine raising a child with a goal of that child being a baseball player or a lawyer or whatever. Odds are, they’ll be something else. In this world, there are a lot of opportunities.’ – Oliver Luck

‘I was a student of law as my grandmother wanted me to be a lawyer. But my passion has always been movies.’ – Aishwarya R. Dhanush

‘Susan Bloom is a combination of the super agent and the super lawyer.’ – Conchata Ferrell

‘I have a homosexual in my staff, I have a homosexual in my family, I have a lesbian in my family, my lawyer is gay with a husband. So what does that say about me?’ – Ruben Diaz Sr.

‘My children are grown… my husband is an international human rights lawyer and all of his work is outside of Canada. So, I have bags, will travel.’ – Annamie Paul

‘In junior high, some would’ve seen me as a professional, a lawyer, a doctor, an engineer. Others would’ve seen me in jail. All depends on who you talked to.’ – Michael Capuano

‘I refer to myself as an actor. I mean, why is there an ‘actor’ and an ‘actress’ when there is no ‘doctor’ and ‘doctoress’ or ‘lawyer’ and ‘lawyeress?” – Shefali Shah

‘Whatever your political leanings, it is disturbing that federal authorities were spying on emails and other private communications between President Donald Trump and his lawyer Rudy Giuliani during Trump’s first impeachment.’ – Miranda Devine

‘I am neither a lawyer nor a tax expert, in fact my formal education ended when I finished high school.’ – Haim Saban

‘My job is to do what’s best for my client. I’m always going to take the same risk that they take. The beauty about this business is that I’m not a defense lawyer. So you don’t pay me and I get you two years when you were facing 10, and I still get paid and you go to jail. That’s not the way it works. When they do well, I do well.’ – Rich Paul

‘Patreon is here to give control back to artists so it doesn’t need to be a hard conversation when a kid tells their parents they want to be a musician or a photographer or a comedian. It should be the same as wanting to be a doctor or a lawyer.’ – Jack Conte

‘I wanted to be all sorts of things. I went through phases. I wanted to be a doctor, I wanted to be a lawyer. For a little while I wanted to be a priest, which my dad wasn’t very happy about.’ – Wes Streeting

‘I didn’t want to be fireman. I didn’t want to be a doctor, or a lawyer, or president. I didn’t want to be any of those things the kids go through when they’re young and growing up, and, ‘Hey, I want to do this.” – Arn Anderson

‘Peter was never going to get into television because he was unattractive. He would either go into business school or become a lawyer or something professional like that. Then he asked a question of John McCain during the 2008 presidential campaign when he was in college. That single question changed the arc of his life.’ – Steve Doocy

‘When Peter was a little boy we assumed he would go to a business school or become a lawyer. We thought, even though a lot of kids in our neighborhood did not have jobs, we wanted Peter to have one.’ – Steve Doocy

‘I try and get to know women who are not from my line of work. I want to know a lawyer, someone in medicine or investment banking.’ – Harshvardhan Kapoor

‘There might be a brown kid who paints and isn’t sure, and his parents want him to be a lawyer or something. Not saying that’s bad, but it’s something that he’s not interested in. I hope I inspire the brown guys, brown girls, everybody, just to follow their dreams with no fear. Because that’s what I did.’ – Nav

‘My children have helped give me purpose and made me a better lawyer. They have shown me the power of choosing life. And they are the reason I want to fight for all the women and girls who, like me, felt immense social pressures to have an abortion.’ – Leslyn Lewis

‘I’m a female black immigrant lawyer, who raised her kids in and around Toronto.’ – Leslyn Lewis

‘Fighters have a choice to fight for any organization they want. They’ve got a choice of playing baseball, basketball, football, swinging a hammer, being a lawyer, doing anything they want. But they wanted to fight.’ – Matt Hughes

‘Look, when I came to this country, my parents, like many immigrants, are looking for a better life. And in their minds for their children, the way that they saw success is they wanted me to become a doctor, a lawyer, or engineer, that is what they perceived as success.’ – Karine Jean-Pierre

‘Ultimately, you are judged by a jury if you are a lawyer speaking to that jury, and you have to show respect to the jury, to the wisdom of the American population.’ – Clay Travis

‘My first movie was ‘Sudden Fear’ with Joan Crawford, and I remember I played a lawyer.’ – Mike Connors

‘If sport had not been possible, I would have studied to be a lawyer.’ – Tanni Grey-Thompson

‘I think you don’t know if a lawyer’s a lawyer until there’s something to overcome in the courtroom. Something goes wrong.’ – Teddy Atlas