Just because you’ve seen ‚My Cousin Vinny‘ doesn’t qualify you to be a federal judge.

It’s simple: You get a part. You play a part. You play it well. You do your work and you go home. And what is wonderful about movies is that once they’re done, they belong to the people. Once you make it, it’s what they see. That’s where my head is at.

I’ve always loved the idea of playing Black Adam.

God will not look you over for medals degrees or diplomas, but for scars.

When I graduated from law school in 1959, there wasn’t a single woman on any federal bench. It wouldn’t be a realistic ambition for a woman to want to become a federal judge. It wasn’t realistic until Jimmy Carter became our president.

I know about two things: ‚Rocky III‘ and Clubber Lang, and ‚A-Team‘ and B.A. Baracus. That’s who I am!

I love music, and after my first experience with movies, I can’t wait to do more.

I sure lost my musical direction in Hollywood. My songs were the same conveyer belt mass production, just like most of my movies were.

Well, everyone likes movies when they’re a little kid.

Law, without force, is impotent.

Arizona presents no specific reason for excepting capital defendants from the constitutional protections extended to defendants generally, and none is readily apparent.

None of my peers avoided prison. None of ‚em.

See, ‚A Time to Kill‘ was the one I got famous off of. Big ka-boom, over one weekend. After that, I did films that I really wanted to do.

I’ve choreographed all of my movies.

When the first big paycheque with ‚Dumb And Dumber‘ hit, I went: ‚Gosh, I wonder if this will affect my performance. Will I do a take and think, was that worth $7 million?‘ But that never happened. If anything, it made me rebel against that thing when people who get rich start playing it safe.

A judge sworn to decide impartially can offer no forecasts, no hints, for that would show not only disregard for the specifics of the particular case, it would display disdain for the entire judicial process.

For so many people, television and movies may be the only way they understand people who aren’t like them.

The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.

If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.

Too much TV hurts movies.

I get very little sleep when the court is sitting.

I do love the films I’ve done in the past. I work hard in my movies and my friends work hard and we’re trying to make people laugh and I’m very proud of that.

I think most defense attorneys know, to some extent, their clients are guilty.

When I was a kid, I thought movies just came from air. I thought they just appeared.

You’re innocent until proven guilty.

The jury consist of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.

Kids end up seeing my movies anyway but some of the mothers get mad at me so I figured I’d make one that I can’t get yelled at for.

I like Ryan Gosling as an actor. I watch all of his movies, and he’s Canadian and I just like his swag. I read his interviews and I’m a big fan of his.

I do hope that some of my dissents will one day be the law.

There is no person in this room whose basic rights are not involved in any successful defiance to the carrying out of court orders.

I would not look to the U.S. Constitution if I were drafting a constitution in 2012.

Hollywood has a way of making everything seem like an overnight success.

My movies just kind of sneak up on you. I don’t have to worry too much about what everybody is going to say. Anyway, I really don’t pay attention to what the world says about my movies. I just care about what my buddies think.

The 14th Amendment was recognized right away to be problematic. The concept of person was both too narrow and too broad, and the courts went to work to overcome both of those flaws.

There’s only one thing that can kill the movies, and that’s education.

I was never interested in being powerful or famous. But once I got to film school and learned about movies, I just fell in love with it. I didn’t care what kind of movies I made.

A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.

More law, less justice.

My friend James Cameron and I made three films together – True Lies, The Terminator and Terminator 2. Of course, that was during his early, low-budget, art-house period.

I really like children to watch my movies.

Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress.

On the whole, we think of our consumers – other judges, lawyers, the public. The law that the Supreme Court establishes is the law that they must live by, so all things considered, it’s better to have it clearer than confusing.

I met Will Smith twice. I didn’t talk to him for too long but I was trying to let him know that my age group grew up watching him – he was the coolest guy on television and the coolest guy in movies.

Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.

Human beings need stories, and we’re looking for them in all kinds of places; whether it’s television, whether it’s comic books or movies, radio plays, whatever form, people are hungry for stories.

I’d go from film to film and almost detach from one world and jump in another. I was living as these people and not having a self. I didn’t know who I was. And things just get really dark.

Whether you come back by page or by the big screen, Hogwarts will always be there to welcome you home.

Some of my foster families used to send me to the movies to get me out of the house and there I’d sit all day and way into the night. Up in front, there with the screen so big, a little kid all alone, and I loved it. I loved anything that moved up there and I didn’t miss anything that happened and there was no popcorn either.

The law is reason, free from passion.

How do people relate to movies now, when they’re on portable devices or streaming them? It’s not as much about going to the movies. That experience has changed.

I just felt that if I went into Speed 2, I just… wouldn’t have come up out of the water.

I have kind of a funny relationship with movies. I don’t have to see the whole movie to get an impression of it or to let it have an influence on me.

Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered.

I think the form, the Hollywood movie, I think the quality is obviously always going to be there and I think that the question of taste, there’s always a question of taste.

I have an immense amount of respect for acting. I’ve always loved movies and was always fascinated by movie-making. But to become an actor, I wanted to commit myself.

I used to like to set different film clips to classical music, not even my own songs, but make little movies.

The strictest law sometimes becomes the severest injustice.

If my films make one more person miserable, I’ll feel I have done my job.

Before ever meeting Priyanka Chopra, I had heard her name coming out of Bollywood and was impressed: she was beautiful, talented, had made nearly 50 movies, earned multiple awards – a massive star.

Nobody should come to the movies unless he believes in heroes.

In westerns, you meet a hardy bunch of characters. There is no jealousy on such pictures.