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.
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.
It’s totally different playing a lawyer and a detective.
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.
They don’t need a lawyer, they need a toastmaster.
I had thought about becoming a civil rights lawyer, but I gave it up.
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.
On some planet, I probably could have been a lawyer. On some planet, I could have been somebody in advertising.
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.
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.
Coming from a family who put a lot of emphasis on academics, I always thought I was going to be a lawyer.
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.
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.
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.
President Trump is a defense lawyer’s worst nightmare – and a dream defendant for special counsel Robert Mueller.
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.
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.
Growing up, Karuna Shinsho on CNN was one of my idols, so I wanted to become either an anchorwoman or an international lawyer.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I’m from a small town, and I thought I would be a lawyer.
My father was a lawyer. I was fascinated to become a lawyer, too.
I hated being a lawyer.
My father was an immigrant from Austria and he became a lawyer and became a judge and I think he was a good judge.
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.
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.
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.
A good lawyer is going to try to protect her client.
There were times when I’d go to lawyer auditions, and everyone’s in a suit, and I’m covered in concrete and paint.
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.
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.
Your attitude will go a long way in determining your success, your recognition, your reputation and your enjoyment in being a lawyer.
He is no lawyer who cannot take two sides.
When I signed my first record deal, I brought it over to my lawyer to look over.
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.
When I was 15, I decided I wanted to be a lawyer. No one thought this was a good idea.
All my life, I call myself wanting to be a lawyer because of Clair Huxtable. But the real dream was to be an actress.
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.
When I’m clean-shaven and bathed, I look like a lawyer.
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.
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.
Even when I’m playing a lawyer or a doctor, I want to play a person. A human being.
You don’t even have to be a lawyer to be on the Supreme Court, which I think is hilarious.
I had more sexist encounters as a lawyer than I had as a journalist.
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.
One minute I was a clapped-out, two-guinea, legal-aid lawyer, and the next minute I was in parliament.
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.
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.
Any good trial lawyer knows that if you’ve got one credible expert or scientific study, then you can let the jury decide.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.’
