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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 of view. You're fighting for what they want. You learn that in acting school - it's Acting 1A: 'What do you want? What's in the way?'

And while I might not always agree with the viewpoint I have to portray, because I play a district attorney, as an actress I can always tell myself that my character is trying to take the moral high ground.

The role of the defense is to be an advocate for their client, regardless of whether he did it or not, within the bounds of the law.

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

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 I know observe that.

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

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

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

I will defend anyone as long as the client gives me total control of the case and pays up front.

To me, any character that is conflicted inside as well as outside of themselves is always a better role to play.