Acting Quote by Annette Bening

Acting schools want to keep you in a position where they can still protect you, but in this industry no one's going to protect…

— Johan Philip Asbaek

I think when you play a role, you always have to be a defense attorney for that character.

— Matt Bomer

I had never even thought I'd be an actress - I was supposed to be a lawyer. But the motivation is the same: when…

— Anne Parillaud

When actors are being defensive and defending their position, that is when you get less than good acting.

— John Boorman

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…

— Alan Dershowitz

I was a defense attorney before I was a prosecutor, and so knowing what the defense is going to try to do is something…

— Marcia Clark

I'm not going to take up an acting class in order to get a fight. That is not what I've worked my entire life…

— Raphael Assuncao

I have a very schoolish approach to acting. I like to do my homework, know more about the character, and study it. It's all…

— Urvashi Rautela

To be an effective criminal defense counsel, an attorney must be prepared to be demanding, outrageous, irreverent, blasphemous, a rogue, a renegade, and a…

— Clarence Darrow

“Defending unpopular positions is what lawyers do”

— Paul Clement

The criminal defense attorney is misunderstood if not despised by most of society. It doesn't matter if we believe in our adversarial system and…

— Michael Connelly

To be honest, there are so many things I learned in acting school beyond the method; it was a safe place to practice. So…

— Jane Levy