"[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."

"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."

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

"Rafe Spall as Tommy Chapman"

"Rob Morgan as Herbert Richardson"

"Tim Blake Nelson as Ralph Myers"

"Michael B. Jordan as Bryan Stevenson"

"Brie Larson as Eva Ansley"

"Eric Etebari - Charles Talbot"

"Mackenzie Aladjem - Hayley Haller"

"Michael Paré - Detective Kurlen"

"Michaela Conlin - Detective Sobel"

"Pell James - Lorna"

"Shea Whigham - Corliss"

"Katherine Moennig - Gloria"

"Trace Adkins - Eddie Vogel"

"Laurence Mason - Earl Briggs"

"Bryan Cranston - Detective Lankford"

"Bob Gunton - Cecil Dobbs"

"Frances Fisher - Mary Windsor"

"Margarita Levieva - Reggie Campo"

"William H. Macy - Frank Levin"

"Josh Lucas - Ted Minton"

"Ryan Phillippe - Louis Roulet"

"Detective Kurlen: [to Haller in crowded elevator] How does someone like you sleep at night with all the scum you represent?"

"Matthew McConaughey - Mickey Haller"

"John Leguizamo - Val Valenzuela"

"Marisa Tomei - Maggie McPherson"

"Michael Peña - Jesus Martinez"

"I checked the list of people I trust and your name ain't on it."

"We've dealt with jury tampering, wiretapping, a defendant that was literally gagged, and a judge who's been handing down rulings from the bench that would be considered wrong in Honduras, so I'm a little less interested in the law than I was when this trial began."

"This is the Academy Awards of protests and as far as I'm concerned it's an honor just to be nominated."

"Eddie Redmayne - Tom Hayden"

"If blood is going to flow, let it flow all over this city!"

"Sacha Baron Cohen - Abbie Hoffman"

"That's right, we're not goin' to jail because of what we did, we're goin' to jail because of who we are!"

"He does this, it's a pattern. Read his portion of the Port Huron Statement. He implies possessive pronouns and uses vague noun modifiers."

"Alex Sharp - Rennie Davis"

"John Doman - John N. Mitchell"

"Wayne Duvall - Paul DeLuca"

"Caitlin FitzGerald - Daphne O'Connor"

"J. C. MacKenzie - Tom Foran"

"Frank Langella - Judge Julius Hoffman"