109 Movie Quotes about Lawyers (+ Sound Clips)

Updated: Aug 14, 2025

Memorable quotes about lawyers, selected from famous or less known movies and other sources by Movie-Sounds.org's visitors, accompanied by short mp3 and wav audio samples.

1 I get paid no matter how much time you spend in jail.

Tom Cruise as Lt. Daniel Kaffee in A Few Good Men

2 Next time you come into my courtroom, you will look lawyerly. And I mean you comb your hair and wear a suit and tie. And that suit better be made out of some kind of cloth.

Fred Gwynne as Judge Chamberlain Haller in My Cousin Vinny

3 Oh, a counteroffer. That's what we lawyers... I'm a lawyer... We lawyers call that a counteroffer.

Joe Pesci as Vinny Gambini in My Cousin Vinny

4 You.... You jailhouse lawyer!

Adam West as Batman in Batman (1966)

5 Oh, boy. Best lawyer in town. He specializes in those cases where a landlord threatens to throw out a tenant. If I only knew how to get ahold of him. -Don't you know his office number? -I knew his old number. He was evicted last week.

Art Carney as Ed Norton in The Honeymooners (1955)

6 Stay in school and use your brain. Be a doctor, be a lawyer, carry a leather briefcase. Forget about sports as a profession. Sports make you grunt and smell. See, be a thinker, not a stinker.

Carl Weathers as Apollo Creed in Rocky (1976)

7 The justice system works swiftly in the future now that they've abolished all lawyers.

Christopher Lloyd as Dr. Emmett Brown in Back to the Future Part II

8 He's a lawyer, too? -Ma'am, I was already a blood-sucking parasite. All I needed was a briefcase.

Chris Rock as Mooseblood in Bee Movie

9 He's the best lawyer in Miami. He's such a good lawyer that by tomorrow morning, you gonna be working in Alaska. So dress warm.

Al Pacino as Tony Montana in Scarface (1983)

10 Attempted murder? It's not like he killed someone. This is a clear violation of my client's civil rights.

Quote from RoboCop (1987)