The Practice (TV Series)

The Chosen (2003)

Sharon Stone: Sheila Carlisle

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Quotes 

• Alan Shore : [to Sheila]  Why are we whispering?

  Sheila Carlisle : She has a headache.

  Alan Shore : She?

  Sheila Carlisle : God.

  Alan Shore : She gets headaches?

  Sheila Carlisle : And cramps. Explains a lot, don't you think?

• Alan Shore : [to Sheila]  Assuming you do hear God's thoughts, persuading a jury of that reality will be difficult for me.

  Sheila Carlisle : I win my cases. Had the highest winning percentage of any litigator in my firm. They had no right to fire me.

  Alan Shore : Sometimes we need to forgive those who trespass against us.

  Sheila Carlisle : Not.

• Sheila Carlisle : Jimmy, I don't mind your looking at me; in fact, I'm even flattered, but would you mind keeping each stare to 8 seconds total in duration? Anything longer than that is just an invasion of my privacy.

  Alan Shore : Eight seconds or less, Jimmy. Okay?

  Jimmy Berluti : Sure.

• Alan Shore : [to Sheila]  Listen, I need to meet with your doctors tomorrow.

  Sheila Carlisle : Why?

  Alan Shore : To prepare their testimony.

  Sheila Carlisle : Why would we be calling doctors?

  Alan Shore : We're basing our claim on disability law, so I'll need to present evidence of...

  Sheila Carlisle : My disability. I have none, Alan.

  Alan Shore : When I try cases, Sheila, I don't like surprises. Therefore, I would like to meet with your doctors.

  Sheila Carlisle : Why don't I give you all the surprises right now? I have no doctors.

  Alan Shore : You're not being treated by anybody?

  Sheila Carlisle : Why should I be? Because God speaks to me? That doesn't make me ill and it doesn't make me any less of a lawyer.

• Sheila Carlisle : Imagine being considered insane for endeavoring to communicate with God. I've been so ostracized by my firm these days, God was the only one who'd talk to me. Addressing specific jurors. You talk to her, Margaret, every night. And even though you think she's a he, that's okay.

  [Margaret nods] 

  Sheila Carlisle : And, Ward, I know you don't believe in Her, but when your wife survived cancer, you were heard to mutter, "Thank God."

  Atty. Albert Ginsberg : Wha... what is going on here?

  Sheila Carlisle : I'm giving my opening remarks and I'd appreciate being allowed to finish. And this...

  [lifts a male juror's comb-over to reveal his bald head] 

  Sheila Carlisle : ... is fraud.

  Atty. Albert Ginsberg : Objection!

  Sheila Carlisle : Agnostic, Mitchell? Shame!