James Earl Jones credited as playing...
Professor Banks
- Professor Banks: You've learned something I can't teach them. You've learned what it feels like to be black.
- Mark: No sir.
- Professor Banks: Beg your pardon?
- Mark: I don't really know what it feels like sir. If I didn't like it, I could always get out. It's not the same sir.
- Professor Banks: You've learned a great deal more than I thought.
- Professor Banks: Mr. Watson, I am not a humorless man, but if you insist on taking up my class time making jokes, please see to it that they are funny.
- Professor Banks: I understand you are allowed one phone call from jail?
- Mark Watson: Yes.
- Professor Banks: Next time you get arrested, use it to call me. I'll bring you your books. You can study in jail.
- Professor Banks: Some of you may have had easy lives up until now. Some of you may not. Life this semester won't be *easy* for any of you. Your grades in your first year of law school can determine your entire future in the law.
- Professor Banks: If you've had some sort of accident, Mr Watson, perhaps you should have taken the entire day off.
- Mark: Oh. I'm fine. I just got in sort of a fight. I mean, it wasn't my fault! You see they threw me in this cell with these real ass - - some extremely unsportsman-like fellows.
- Gordon Bloomfeld: Objection!
- Professor Banks: To what?
- Gordon Bloomfeld: Quite frankly, to your tone of voice.