Justice & Law Quote by Elisabeth Rohm

There’s a neat double-exposure in Rohm’s line: she’s talking about a character, but she’s also talking about the job of acting in a justice-system drama - selling hope while staging its collapse. The phrase “very excited” isn’t just personal enthusiasm; it signals a performer recognizing a juicy engine for story. Idealism gives you velocity. Disappointment gives you gravity. Put them together and you get a character the audience can’t help but follow.

“I could be my age” does quiet cultural work. It frames idealism not as naive youthfulness but as a choice an adult still tries to make, even with enough life experience to know better. That tension is the point: the “eager beaver” energy reads almost self-mocking, a knowingly uncool sincerity in an era that prizes detachment. Rohm is acknowledging the risk of playing earnestness straight - and the payoff when it lands.

The most telling move is the alignment with the viewer: “disappointed just like the audience.” That’s craft talk disguised as confession. On shows where the justice system is both hero and antagonist, the audience comes for catharsis and stays for the frustration. Rohm’s intent is to be the emotional surrogate, the person who believes in the system hard enough that its failures actually sting. The subtext is almost political: institutions don’t need more cynics; they need people willing to be wounded by them, repeatedly, on our behalf.