Top 170 Cop Quotes

The Onion Field, that one got pretty close to me because I was a cop when it happened. I saw some of the indifference that my police department showed to the surviving officer.

I like my role in ‘Akira,’ which is a remake of a south Indian film. I play the role of a pregnant cop like the original. So, since it’s the role of a pregnant cop, luckily I didn’t have to do any stunts.

I’ll go on record and say it’s way more fun riding in front of a cop car then riding in the back cuz you can get out if you want to.

There’s something very surreal about driving a truck, looking in the rearview mirror, and seeing 20 cop cars behind you. Even though you know, ‘We’re just shooting. This is just a scene; we’re making a movie here,’ it’s very unsettling.

Let’s face it. My dad was a mechanic, and my mom was a cop: my college options in seventh grade didn’t look that great. And the chance I got to go to college and experience college life is something that’s pretty precious to me.

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.

It’s a tribal state, and it always will be. Whether we like it or not, whenever we withdraw from Afghanistan, whether it’s now or years from now, we’ll have an incendiary situation. Should we stay and play traffic cop? I don’t think that serves our strategic interests.

When I was younger, I wanted to be a cop. Then I watched ‘The Wild Wild West,’ and so I wanted to be in the Secret Service like James West. At some point I realized, ‘That guy is not in the Secret Service. He’s an actor.’ That sounds like a good idea too.

If I write a cop show, it’s not up to me to decide how different it is from ‘Law & Order.’ I had screenwriters go on and on and on about how their cop show isn’t like any other cop show on TV. They made very good points, and it absolutely doesn’t matter. It’s entirely up to the audience to decide.

Not every cop is bad, not every white person is bad or racist.

I never in my life saw myself as a game show host. I don’t want to be a traffic cop.

In France they spend six months training policemen, then they give them a gun and put them on the streets, and I don’t know that that’s enough. The film’s not against the police – although I think that if someone wants to be a cop there’s got to be a problem.

You don’t ever want to go out there and not be the best. You want to be the best cop that you can. Be the best writer you can be. Everybody has their goals. Everybody has their dreams.

I am very gender fluid and feel more like I wake up every day sort of gender neutral. I cop a fair bit of flack for going from ‘such a babe to such a boy.’

‘Beverly Hills Cop’ opened up a whole world. I got the television show and movies, and I would go sign autographs for one hour and get paid $25,000.

I always seem to love the shows with cops. I really want to play a cop – I want a badge and a gun. I’d love to do a guest spot on ‘Breaking Bad’ or ‘Castle.’ I think ‘Once Upon a Time’ is a great time. Fun stuff. I like to have fun with characters.

When Joseph Wambaugh writes about the LAPD, you listen because you know he knows the scene. Lots of people write cop novels, but they don’t have that authenticity.

Clothes are a kind of uniform. A nun’s habit, a surgeon’s scrubs, a cop’s uniform. People often say that when they put on a certain uniform, they actually think of themselves differently.

There are so many police series that we all end up playing a cop of one hue or another eventually.

I’ve always wanted to play a cop, desperately.

It’s very important to play a police role convincingly. It ups you in your career. Even ‘Siruthai,’ in which I played a cop in one of the roles, was a gamechanger.

I somewhere along the way became fascinated with exploring characters who are willing to put themselves into violent situations, whether it’s football, hockey, boxing, being a cop, being a soldier. There’s not a lot of people who are willing to put themselves into those situations.

G.I. humor is similar to cop humor.

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

I’ve been saying for about 20 years, ‘When am I going to get my cop show?’

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.

For horror movies, it’s great because I know exactly what I am doing and what should be done. But for a cop drama, I can’t calm my face down, and so it’s really nice to be able to be in this genre where nothing is too much, and no one yells at me for having big eyes.

I felt very patriotic playing a New York City cop.

Well, unlike a lot of authors, I will be the one to cop to having a ghostwriter. I’ve always written with someone else.

It was a great time, and I liked the guys. I liked getting up every morning and being a cop.

I have no idea what I would be, I really don’t have the vaguest idea what I would be, if my father had remained a Boston cop. I don’t have any idea what I would have thought the horizon was.

In ‘Dhil,’ my character wants to become a cop, and those who want to become cops have a small waist. In ‘Saamy,’ where I play a cop, my waist is thicker. Because after you become a cop, that’s how you look.

The next day, I got a phone call from him and he told me to come and read for a movie called New Jack City. So I went over there and they told me I was gonna wear dreads and play a cop.

If the real radical finds that having long hair sets up psychological barriers to communication and organization, he cuts his hair. If I were organizing in an orthodox Jewish community, I would not walk in there eating a ham sandwich unless I wanted to be rejected so I could have an excuse to cop out.

I’ve been a character actress right from the beginning. I was no more like ‘Cinderella’ in my real life than I was like the neurotic poet in ‘Cop.’

I know an actor who would play one type of part but could never get cast as tough. Once he got cast as tough, as a cop, he only got offered cop roles. It’s a funny business in that regard. It’s all about perception.

I was an infantry Marine, and there are only so many things you can do when you get out of the military that you can apply your job to. Either a janitor or a cop. I tried to do both of those things because what else are you going to do?

You can’t separate the two, being a parent, being a cop.

Ask any cop, and they’ll assure you that it doesn’t exactly take a forensics team from NCIS to figure out that someone is an illegal.

Children ran up to me shouting, ‘Columbo!’ At first, it gave me great pleasure, but later, I said to myself that those children should have had their own heroes instead of admiring a cop from Los Angeles.

I play tons of authority figures, whether it’s the dad or the cop or the boss. I think it’s a combination of how I look, who I am.

A lot of people think that comedy is sort of a cop out to not wrestling seriously, but I actually would argue that comedy is much more difficult than wrestling seriously because you have to be creative in almost everything that you do if you want the comedy to make sense within the realms of pro wrestling.

Joseph Wambaugh did not invent the police novel, but no one had seen anything like ‘The New Centurions’ when it was published in 1971. Here was a working, living, breathing cop with a decade of experience on the beat.

Whenever I’ve had to make a major decision as a doctor, cop or for a company I’ve worked for, I ask myself: What is the value proposition here? Will my decision bring added value to the population I have the privilege to serve?

I’d make a lousy cop. I’d just wear it too close to my skin and wouldn’t survive. I’ll stick to acting.

My second bout with Cro Cop was the hardest. I had a serious injury in my eye during the fight and he knocked me out in the second round. I think it was the closest I’ve been to death.

The funny thing about any cop uniform is that people will do what you say when you’re wearing a cop uniform.

I’m very proud of being Italian-American, but people don’t realize that the mafia is just this aberration. The real community is built on the working man, the guy who’s the cop, the fireman, the truck driver, the bus driver.

I remember those moments in my life when the tape came out on that Tuesday, and I went to Sam Goody to cop it. And sitting and listening to it. In awe of the music I was listening to, but also imagining this music at the hip-hop clubs and with the homies in the car.

As a child in awe of my policeman father, I wanted to grow up to be a cop.

Had I not been a choreographer, I would have become nothing more than a traffic cop or peon in an office.

To play a cop’s wife – there’s so much in that world, the wives or partners of anyone who is a first responder – it’s not an easy job. It’s not an easy way to live, to say goodbye to someone in the morning and not know what’s going to happen throughout the day.

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.