Attorney Quote by Matt Bomer

As an actor, you're sort of the court-appointed lawyer for the character.

— Vera Farmiga

Somebody said something really smart: It's like you end up being the defense attorney for your role. Your job is to defend their point…

— Annette Bening

And while I might not always agree with the viewpoint I have to portray, because I play a district attorney, as an actress I…

— Lara Flynn Boyle

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

Once you take a role, you have to do it properly and do it justice.

— Tamsin Egerton

I think lawyers have a fidelity to the system itself that's always got to be with them, and indeed, most of the defense lawyers…

— Scott Turow

I actually was a defense attorney first.

— Marcia Clark

I think if I weren't an actress, I might have made a halfway decent attorney! I like the way they think.

— Lorraine Toussaint

I've never played an attorney, and I'd like to do so on a show like 'The Practice' or 'Law & Order.'

— Juliet Landau

When we watch courtroom dramas, we tend to identify with the kindhearted defense attorney, but give us the power, and we become like hanging…

— Jon Ronson

I've never worked on a lawyer show for a long time, but I imagine the actors all start acting like lawyers.

— Katey Sagal

Once you actually book the role, you see that people have faith in your ability to portray the character.

— Ray Fisher