"For the benefit of the jury, but more especially for the spectators, The garment mentioned in the testimony was, to be exact, Mrs. Manion's panties. [spectators roar with laughter] I wanted to get your snickering over and done with. This pair of panties will be mentioned again over the course of this trial, and when it is, there will not be one laugh, one snicker, one giggle or even one smirk in my courtroom. There is nothing comic about a pair of panties that resulted in the violent death of one man and the possible incarceration of another."

"Kathryn Grant - Mary Pilant"

"Eve Arden - Maida Rutledge"

"Ken Lynch - Sgt. James Durgo"

"Brooks West - Mitch Lodwick"

"Royal Beal - Sheriff Battisfore"

"Jimmy Conlin - Clarence Madigan"

"Ned Wever - Dr. Raschid"

"Alexander Campbell - Dr. Gregory Harcourt"

"Lloyd Le Vasseur - Court clerk"

"Joseph N. Welch - Judge Weaver"

"James Stewart - Paul Biegler"

"[after cross-examining a convicted felon] Your Honor, I don't think I can dignify this - -creature - - with any more questions."

"Look, Laura, believe me, I don't usually complain of an attractive jiggle, but just you save that jiggle for your husband to look at, if and when I get him out of jail."

"Twelve people go off into a room: twelve different minds, twelve different hearts, from twelve different walks of life; twelve sets of eyes, ears, shapes, and sizes. And these twelve people are asked to judge another human being as different from them as they are from each other. And in their judgment, they must become of one mind - unanimous. It's one of the miracles of Man's disorganized soul that they can do it, and in most instances, do it right well. God bless juries."

"You know I used to think the world looked better through a glass of whiskey. It doesn't. I think I'll keep it this way. Looks nice."

"One judge is quite like another. The only differences may be in the state of their digestions or their proclivities for sleeping on the bench. For myself, I can digest pig iron. And while I might appear to doze occasionally, you will find that I am easily awakened, particularly if shaken gently by a good lawyer with a nice point of law."

"Lee Remick - Laura Manion"

"I'm just a humble country lawyer trying to do the best I can against this brilliant prosecutor from the big city of Lansing."

"Ben Gazzara - Lt. Frederick Manion"

"Arthur O'Connell - Parnell Emmett McCarthy"

"Rafe Spall as Tommy Chapman"

"Tim Blake Nelson as Ralph Myers"

"Brie Larson as Eva Ansley"

"O'Shea Jackson Jr. as Anthony Ray Hinton"

"Jamie Foxx as Walter McMillian"

"Rob Morgan as Herbert Richardson"

"Michael B. Jordan as Bryan Stevenson"

"I came out of law school with grand ideas in my mind about how to change the world. But Mr. McMillian made me realize we can't change the world with only ideas in our minds. We need conviction in our hearts. this man taught me how to stay hopeful, because I now know that hopelessness is the enemy of justice. Hope allows us to push for word, even when the truth is distorted by the people in power. It allows us to stand when they tell us to sit down, and to speak when they say be quiet."

"[in the US Senate hearing about the death penalty] Through this work, I've learned that each of us is more than the worst thing that we've ever done; that the opposite of poverty isn't wealth, the opposite of poverty is justice; that the character of our nation isn't reflected on how we treat the rich and the privileged, but how we treat the poor, the disfavored, and condemned."

"John Doman - John N. Mitchell"

"Joseph Gordon-Levitt - Richard Schultz"

"Wayne Duvall - Paul DeLuca"

"Noah Robbins - Lee Weiner"

"Daniel Flaherty - John Froines"

"Mark Rylance - William Kunstler"

"Yahya Abdul-Mateen II - Bobby Seale"