Cop Quotations

A really good uniformed cop has tremendous people skills, and they learn how to read people.

It is time to put more cops on the beat and remove our most violent repeat offenders from our neighborhood streets.

I never went through a period were I wanted to be a doctor, a cop or even a rock star. All I wanted to do was play short stop for the Yankees from the time I was about 5. Then I turned 15 and realized how silly that was and just gave up on it.

Violent crime rates fell steadily from 1993 to 2002, and this nearly coincides with the establishment of the community policing program known as the COPS program under the Clinton administration.

I’ve made upwards of a million bucks in the cops and robbers business.

The stuff that I find really intriguing is always how do ordinary people behave in extraordinary circumstances. And that's why we have a lot of cop shows and lawyer shows and medical shows is that you're looking for situations that just always heighten the stakes.

As wild as I was, when the cops show up, and suddenly you're being handcuffed, it's so deeply shocking and terrifying, the loss of freedom.

It's a great feeling to know that 100 cops want to stop you doing something and they can't.

Coming up in the Bay Area and being African American in a city that has a history of complex issues of violent crime, interaction with the police is always intense. That's something you have to learn. My mom taught me at a young age that if ever a cop stops you, you put your hands up and freeze - don't move.

My action follows my characters. If a character is a cop, you cannot be posing all the time, you cannot fly off the roof because it doesn't make any sense - it's not practical.

An honest cop still can't find a place to go and complain without fear of recrimination. The blue wall will always be there because the system supports it.

Maybe it's stress or anger or adrenaline or disillusionment or a bullying nature or simple fear of getting killed themselves, but there is a problem if a cop cannot tell the difference between a menacing gangster and the far more common person they encounter whose life is a little frayed and messy.

The notion of being on a cop show was appealing, just because it's one of those tick boxes in a career.

I went home one night and told my dad that an older kid was picking on me. My Dad, a Korean War vet and a Chicago cop for 30 years, told me, 'You better pick up a brick and hit him in the head.' That's when I thought, 'Wow, I'm going to have to start dealing with things in a different way.'

I don't want to play fat cops for the rest of my life.

The very first time I got to drive by myself, I took a bunch of my friends to school and was caught by a motorcycle cop going 90 miles an hour on a back street.

I'd never played a cop before, and this particular role with what she is going thru, especially during the first season, covering her alcoholism to her on the job performance, was a great opportunity for me as an actress.

In February of 1972, a snowstorm blew into Kansas City, and I decided to hitchhike to California. The roads were icy, snowflakes howling, and nobody would drive me to the highway, so I humped through the snow and ice and caught a ride with a concerned cop to the Kansas Turnpike.

I've always been fascinated by Baretta and Donny Brasco, and other undercover cops in movies.

They would almost throw the cops in jail when they tried to arrest me.

No, the seventies was a totally different sensibility and that allowed us to break new ground as a cop show.

I really think a good host is just a connector. I'm more traffic cop than star. My job is to get people on and off the program, and hopefully keep the audience entertained.

What the cops did to Rodney King was wrong, and the officers who beat him should be sent straight to prison.

There's nothing wrong with being a cop. There's nothing wrong with being a white person. It's about where your heart is...We've got to get everyone beyond the xenophobic isolationism.

In the domain of cops and robbers, an interdiction serves to structure a black market and a shadow economy.

I'm not a model; hence I don't see the reason to have a six-pack abs. I can pull off a tough and rugged look of a cop in 'Dhoom' series without taking my shirt off. Cops don't have to move around without a shirt to flaunt their machismo. What makes the character of a cop stand out is his attitude and not his six-pack abs.

We get picked up in these Rolls Royces and get three miles down the highway and five cop cars pull us over.

I've never been arrested. I've been stopped, searched and had a gun put to my head by the Chicago cops.

You have to always try to think about them like real people first, and not just heroes. They have to be real characters. As people do more and more superhero stuff, the characters are what distinguish it, just like in cop shows.

In the beginning Remo is a very New York street cop who changes and is changed as he moves along.

It's a lot of crooked cops out there. They manipulate the system.

Post-apocalyptic novels tell you that in the future there is some great war. I would tell you that most cops say that it's going on right now.

I've never been a cop nor hope to be a cop, thanks.

I've never played anybody like a cop before.

I don't watch cop movies much. I TiVo shows. I watch every Larry David show.

When I watch cop shows, I really enjoy them because you can really follow the story and get involved, and the characters are always really interesting.

On 'The Messenger,' just imagining playing the part of a soldier in that movie was kind of hard for me. And in 'Rampart,' the idea of playing a cop was even harder. It was hard to imagine myself as a cop.

In the middle of the night, when you're ambiguously ethnic, like me, when you're brown, beige, mauve, siena, one of those lighter browns in the Crayola box. You have to be careful of the cops and robbers, because nobody's quite sure what you are, but everybody has assumptions.

What I know from my friends who are cops is they keep their houses very clean, because they say you never know if you're coming back or not.

I would have to commit a crime and have cops chase me. That would be the only way to get me to jog five miles.

I see a really good tag on a building, a man passed out in the middle of the street, a couple hugging, a cop arresting a panhandler. I'm interested in how all these things are happening in one block.

Well, for one thing, you know my dad was a cop.

I love cop shows and crime books and thrillers, and before I die I'm gonna play a cop.

I never saw myself as being a cop on TV. I come from theatre, and I always go back every couple of years.

When your dad's a cop, calling 911 is really just like calling Dad at work.

I definitely support cop acting more than cops, but all of them ain't bad, just some of them.

It took me a while to understand the meaning of a franchise: the reasons why you see lawyer, doctor, cop shows. It's not because anyone in their right mind says, 'You know, what's the most fascinating thing in the world?' It's because you need something new that happens every week in a frame.

I come from a family of cops, and all of them share that understanding that they put their lives on the line.

I would do 'Superbad,' and the next offers you would get would all be crazy cop characters or crazy security guards or something.

I know there were many good policemen who died doing their duty. Some of the cops were even friends of ours. But a cop can go both ways.

It's Will Ferrell, he does Will Ferrell movies. But if you really look at it, he tries to do something different with each one, whether it's an action cop movie like 'The Other Guys' or doing 'Talladega Nights' going into red state America or 'Casa de Mi Padre' or 'Stranger Than Fiction,' which is more of a drama.

When I did 'Bird,' it was a surprise to some people, first because I wasn't in it and second because most of the films I'd been doing were cop movies or westerns or adventure films, so to be doing one about Charlie Parker, who was a great influence on American music, was a great thrill for me.

Wexford started off as a very conventional, tough cop and not a very original character because I had no idea I was writing a series, of course. I had no idea I'd created a series character.

We've won 10 games in (the past) three years. There's no way we would cop an attitude.

If a cop sees a person running out of a store with a gun he's seeing a crime. He's not seeing a person standing.

What do we want? Dead cops. When do we want it? Now.

She supported a deal that didn't even require this murderous regime to return a cop killer, JoAnne Chesimard, to face justice. See I know about this personally.

If we were a dog and God owned us, the cops would come and take us away.

Perhaps the crime situation would be improved if we could get more cops off television and onto the streets.

Negotiating with Disney isn't like good cop/bad cop; it's like bad cop/Antichrist.

Arnold Schwarzenegger announced he's running for governor. He's got a great slogan - 'Vote for me, or I'll make 'Kindergarten Cop II

I'm the furthest thing away from a cop.

Being judgmental about your own behavior is actually another cop-out because it makes you feel as though you're doing something virtuous.

I'll buy metaphor, but simile's a cop-out used by scaredycats who won't commit to anything. Simile's for cowards.

There are rules in movies. I did a movie playing a bad cop who was a heroin addict but they wouldn't let me smoke in a movie.

[My] dream writers room: "'Naked City.' Because it still holds up as the absolutely quintessential New York pure cop procedural."

To produce and direct a movie today, a man really ought to have two heads. It is like trying to be a traffic cop and write a poem at the same time. You need an executive head to handle all the vast paraphernalia of movie-making. You need another, more sensitive head to get the delicate human emotional values you are trying to put on film.

She understood what the struggle was about. You become aware. It hits you in the stomach and then a cop hits you on the head.

She lost control of the car and drove up on the sidewalk, accidentally floored it, went 80 miles an hour, and when she was stopped by the police chief, she offered the guy a bribe, ... And the cop said, 'We don't do that here.'

One frustrated cop freaked out and called in 25 more.

One night I was driving and so infatuated with dipping French fries into my milk shake that I drove right through a stop sign. The cop who pulled me over had no mercy.

My great-grandfather was a police captain, and so was my grandfather. And then my dad spent 23 years as a cop in the Housing Authority.

I was surprised. With all the cop cars, I thought someone was in trouble. I heard the sirens and wondered what is going on.

I don't know a cop in the world who would not open a file like this,

If we were making a cop comedy about bad cops or cops who were comically bad at the jobs, then the jokes would be more hijinks and more like slapstick.

If Tim McVeigh is such a monster, why didn't he shoot the cop when he pulled him over? ... ...if McVeigh had done such a dastardly deed that's what he would have done.

He was always kind of the nice guy in the good cop-bad cop thing. But it's not like he tells us to do something now and we're like, 'OK, whatever, J.J.' Everybody respects him.

He loved people and it crushed him not to be a cop. He was a street cop through and through. He just loved people, interacting with them, helping them. It was hard for him not to. But he found other avenues.

There is no cop on the beat. In Washington, it is easy to get away with denying and delaying until a request dies.

When he ran from a cop his transitions from accelerating walk to easy jog trot to brisk canter to headlong gallop to flogged-piston sprint were as distinct and as soberly in order as an automatic gearshift.

He controlled the night in the city of Albany. Everything had to go through him, whether you were working with another agency, you had to go through him. If you wanted to make an arrest, you had to go through him, unless, of course, a cop witnessed a crime.

Kennedy the Cop was a great, great character. He was the definition of community policing before it was a big deal.

I think it's a cop out to say that you've been there. Just because you've been there doesn't mean you are going to be there again.

I think that one of the strengths of Cop Shoot Cop lay in the different, and at times, clashing personalities, Ideally, I want to have both ways of working in my life.

I was able to cop out for reckless driving and it's part of my record. I'm not proud of it, but I think its helped me understand myself better,

I said this to the Knapp Commission over 25 years ago, ... We must create an atmosphere where the crooked cop fears the honest cop, and not the other way around.

I saw a cop draw his gun and go inside (the bank) with a teller. This is very unusual.

Our guys are pretty upset about it, something needed to be done. We expected to cop a bit of abuse but this was pushing the limits.

Let me say straight up that tonight's benefit is not to support cop killers or any other kind of killers.

Marge, you being a cop makes you the man! Which makes me the woman - and I have no interest in that, besides occasionally wearing the underwear, which as we discussed, is strictly a comfort thing.

Marcus is the type of cop we all wished we could be,

I was familiar with that and 'Rio Bravo.' 'Rio Bravo' was what John Carpenter did, that brilliant move of taking a western and turning it into an urban flick. And from there you got, you know, all the cop genre movies of the time.

I was really impressed when I met Will the police motto, 'protect and serve,' really means something to him. All he ever wanted to do is be a cop it's one thing to read that on the page, but another thing to hear him say it.

I was really impressed when I met Will -- the police motto, 'protect and serve,' really means something to him. All he ever wanted to do is be a cop -- it's one thing to read that on the page, but another thing to hear him say it. It feels great to be making a movie about great cops,

You can block anything in the world, in certain environments. But the whole idea of supervision, the cop on the beat, the parents on the beat, really is overrated by an awful lot of folks, we found.

Will: I didn't ask for this. Sean: No, you were born with it. So don't cop out behind 'I didn't ask for this.'

We won't rest until people feel confident that they can organize in their community without fear that there is a cop in it.

The right to freedom of association is fine, but why shouldn't the cops be allowed to mine your social network to figure out if you're hanging out with gangbangers and terrorists?

I like to stay within the context of the character's background. If he's a cop, I have to make sure the audience is convinced that this person, a cop, can do only so much without a gun.

Cops and robbers resemble each other, so there's not a lot to learn in terms of learning the logistics of committing the crime or investigating the crime.