Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" Acting, when it is good, can be transformative. "

Related Quotes:

" It's always nice to have new clothes made for you. "

" Above all else, look around to employ the best talent you possibly can. "

" The reality is that when you're a barrister, you're trained, and you've got ethical structures. You've got to follow the evidence, and that's that. "

" It is difficult to ever think about your loved one having suffered. "

" I wish I had a filter; then, I'd suspect, who knows? I'd perhaps have more friends. "

" The law is the law whether you're dealing with a multi-million-pound fraud or a car deal where someone feels diddled because their exhaust falls off on the way home. "

" My father is a taxi driver, and my mother ran a small business. I hadn't even met a barrister before I got my first shot at the legal profession. But back then, I was lucky enough to be given a break - I can't help but wonder if I would be so lucky today. "

" On TV, the nitty-gritty of trials takes place between commercial breaks, whereas, of course, reality is infinitely more complex. True crime also makes us more empathetic. "

" Discounting the ineffably repetitive homophobic barbs that I receive most days, Twitter trolls' most common gripe against me appears to be that I am 'posh.' Contrary to their unshakeable view, I was not born into the upstairs world. "

" I realise I'm known for doing big, very serious cases, but fundamentally, any lawyer will tell you that even the most complex trials come down to the same questions. Are people telling porky pies? Are bank accounts dodgy? Is someone trying to get one over on you? It's my job to listen and then decide. "

" One of the things about being a law student is that the academic discipline of law is very often removed from the practical reality of law. How to complain, who to complain to, and whether or not you even need to invoke the law is very different in the real world from how it's examined in the lecture theatre. "

" You can separate the church and state all you like, but Christmas is inescapable, and it's marvellous, and it's not going away. "

" Serious crime is very, very rare, and I think all of us are interested because they are rare and unusual. If they were banal and everyday, we wouldn't be interested in them at all. "

" I do get stopped in the street, and people are always, without exception, really polite. I think it's because they think I can send them to prison. "

" Is it exploitative to get the victim of an unimaginably horrific crime to talk on my show 'Crime Stories?' No, it's crucial. "

" Anyone who's been in my court knows my maxim: 'If you make them, you pay for them!' "

" My musical taste is somewhat dated - I mean, freeze frame, go back 60 years, and you're in my comfort zone. "

" I did a couple of plays at university, badly, where I made friends with Benedict Cumberbatch. When you see someone like him acting, it makes you think there's not much point in doing it yourself. "

" I find it amusing when you look at plastic surgeons because they don't seem to have had anything done. "

" One must be aesthetically long-termist in selecting a man - it's like purchasing a farmhouse in the south of France. Sure, it's beautiful to look at, but will the roof stay on? "

" There's certainly more chance of me winning 'Strictly' than having an affair with my dance partner, but you know, who knows? "

" I'm not as conscious as I should be about my diet and eating a healthy balance of fruit and vegetables because I do so much exercise. However, I love good grilled fish and Mediterranean/Middle-Eastern salads. "

" No matter how excluded you have become from Christmas, it is a genuinely inclusive matter; frankly, you are conscripted into it. "

" I was in the National Youth Theatre, too, but there was no dancing there. I was doing plays like 'Julius Caesar' and playing the lute very badly. "

" I am unashamed to say that I have a super-crush on Kate Oates, the series producer of 'Coronation Street.' "

" I don't want to be a total moron and be just known as the jazz-handed judge. "

" The state of some of our roads is a matter of national embarrassment. "

" The difficulty with American television is it's pot luck. "

" If the press is to be free, the state has no role in regulating what is published. "

" People form strong attachments to their properties. "