I’ve had a couple great moments in my career, I beat Cro Cop, I won the Pride belt.
First, I’m trying to edit down about 7 hours of material which I made prior to the Cop days and find some way to get it out. This stuff is pretty out there, mostly sonic collages and tape manipulations.
No, the seventies was a totally different sensibility and that allowed us to break new ground as a cop show.
I like the yin-yang of a cop’s life, where he’s part fascist and part saint. That’s where the good dramas are.
I’ve always had a desire to play a cop or FBI agent.
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.
I never thought about being a cop. I’m kind of sensitive. I don’t know if I could handle that job. It’s hard to go home every day and be able to still live your own life because some of the stuff you see really affects you.
I never saw myself as being a cop on TV. I come from theatre, and I always go back every couple of years.
It’s hard to reinvent the wheel with a cop show. But ‘Rookie Blue’ has a pure emotional center that’s not cynical.
I have played many cop roles in my career, and my effort is to make each role different.
A really good uniformed cop has tremendous people skills, and they learn how to read people.
My character in the first instalment of ‘GOW’ was very shy and reserved. It was completely different from ‘Kahaani,’ where I played a no-nonsense cop. And in the second instalment of ‘GOW,’ it is again very different.
The cop in ‘Dhruva’ had to be much more agile, far more fit and alert than any role I had played so far. I built the body that the role required. If it’s been appreciated, I am glad.
I don’t know if I would be a good cop. As gruff as I come off, I take things very emotionally.
I actually met a cop who worked with street gangs. I wanted to understand what drives someone who deals with very hardened criminals on a daily basis. How do you turn that off when you go home at night?
I called my family, saying, ‘Guess what? I got a new show. It’s about a cop who travels in time.’ And they said, ‘I think we’ve seen that one.’
One day Id like to try my hand at doing a gritty cop drama.
I’d like to be the next Oprah financially, but I’m not a TV actor. I’m not someone with an entertainment background, I’m a cop. And I’m not afraid to go anywhere and get down and dirty.
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 felt like hip-hop was my music, it was like my outsider music… but then my mom started answering our phone, ‘Yo, what’s up.’ She was hearing me talk to my friends. I was like, ‘No, mom, don’t cop the hip-hop talk.’
I got family members that’s police officers. I don’t got no problem if you a cop, as long as y’all doing y’all job, and y’all not harassing.
Given that I often wear shorts with a T-shirt, baseball cap, and backpack most days, a crew-neck shirt gives me the appearance of an undercover cop on the way to a sting operation at a summer camp.
I’ve been called a point guard, I’ve been called a traffic cop, I’ve been called a ringmaster, a lion tamer, whatever. And I guess the thing about the traffic cop is I’m more of a rogue traffic cop because a good traffic cop doesn’t want any fender benders.
I’m the disciplinarian. Nick doesn’t discipline. The cat can do whatever it wants. It can scratch on the furniture. It can do whatever it wants and Nick doesn’t do anything about it. So I have to yell. I’m the bad cop. He’s the good cop.
It’s funny, I was talking to somebody who writes for a cop show, and he was saying how they aren’t allowed to acknowledge Christmas, Thanksgiving, Valentine’s Day, just because it has to be able to play forever.
I think my wife and my kids are incredibly good to allow me to stay in public life given that they have to cop a whole lot of collateral attention that, being human, they’d rather not get.
In Rio de Janeiro, every cop has to make a choice. He either turns dirty, keeps his mouth shut, or goes to war.
There’s an intelligence that goes with being a good cop. Intuitiveness – they have to be actors; they have to have deductive reasoning, knowledge about a great deal of subjects.
My dad was a homicide cop in the gay neighborhood in the city when gay neighborhoods were desperate, depressing, sad places run by the mob. The only gay people he’d met when I came out to him were corpses.
I’d love to do a cop film in America. That’s a genre I absolutely adore.
When your dad’s a cop, calling 911 is really just like calling Dad at work.
I’ve never played anybody like a cop before.
I wanted to be a New York City cop before I became an actor.
When I was 13, Eddie Murphy was to me what Chris Tucker was to 13-year-olds when I made ‘Rush Hour.’ And ‘Rush Hour’ really came out of the fact that I grew up watching ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ and ’48 Hrs.’
I don’t usually see my type for on-camera stuff as a series regular. Normally, my type is the janitor, the secretary, the cop, or the nurse.
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.
A couple of my favourite cop movies are ‘I Love a Man in Uniform’ and ‘The Long Goodbye.’
A recent police study found that you’re much more likely to get shot by a fat cop if you run.
A cop by themselves on every corner is not going to make that much difference.
‘Cop Car’ was made with all of my friends. I wrote it with my best friend.
Everyone says I drive like my grandfather, but that’s not always a good thing because he didn’t always watch the road because he’d talk to you and look at you. He was a deputy sheriff, a cop, for a long time. So he was always looking around, checking out other things, other than what’s directly in front of him.
I am more of the disciplinarian and the bad cop at home. Since Mahesh spoils our son, I have to balance it out.
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.
If I play a cop, it’s always a racist cop or a trigger-happy cop or a crooked cop – but by and large I play cowboys, bikers, and convicts.
What differentiates leaders is the ability to recover following a mistake. I make mistakes all the time, but I cop to them, apologize, and move on. Contrition is powerful.
My father was a cop.
The Onion Field made a real writer. And then I knew it was over, I couldn’t be a cop anymore.
Sometimes when working on TV, especially when doing procedural cop work, you can refer to your notes. Your notes, of course, do contain, naturally, all the information you need.
Cop families have guns in their houses.
I just have that cop gene going on. I like strong women. I think a lot of women relate to strong characters, and a cop is still a strong character.
Frankly speaking, ever since my debut, I have been offered cop roles. However, I never felt confident about pulling them off, probably due to my short physique or the absence of the required traits in me.
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.
I always wanted to be a cop or a fireman or do something dangerous.
‘The Choirboys’ is very much a product of its mid-1970s time, especially in its two-dimensional portrayals of cop groupies Ora Lee and Carolina Moon, but the energy of Wambaugh’s newfound, blackly comedic voice is a revelation, a trap-door opening into all facets of a policeman’s world.
I would do ‘Superbad,’ and the next offers you would get would all be crazy cop characters or crazy security guards or something.
Gomez is a by-the-book cop. He’s the only character not to break bad.
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.
Yes, I play a cop in Amit Kumar’s ‘Monsoon Shootout’ where Nawazuddin Siddiqui plays the villain.
My dad was a cop, you know, and I grew up three houses down from people who used Confederate flags as curtains.
There is no such thing as a bad cop, only disturbing and dominant cop thinking that will invariably lead to excessive force and tragic outcomes.
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.
My dad was a cop. My mom worked at various jobs – she worked as a homemaker, a bank teller, a bartender.
But what astonished me is that this Croatian, this Mirko Cro Cop guy, called me the best in the world, a legend in front of me, but behind the computer he’s talking a bunch of crap. What kind of man are you to say this crap online and not to my face?
