It has happened with me that I get a role of a cop for a film. Few directors typecast you if you do that particular role well. But, it is the actor who has to decide whether he fits in that role or not.
Since the end of World War II, American leadership has been essential to maintain world peace. Whether we liked it or not, we were the world’s policeman. There was no other cop on the beat. Now, that leadership is gone. So, increasingly, will be peace.
I’m a chubby middle-aged white guy with short hair. I think that’s it, really. I kind of have a look. Right now, I’m not fat enough to be the fat friend, but I’m not thin enough to be the leading man, so I look like a cop.
When I first started the show, I was known as the ‘cop nerd.’ I was in the 9th Precinct in the East Village every day. I’d be at work wearing a fake bulletproof vest with foam in it, then I’d leave and put on a real one to ride around with these guys.
I’ve been telling anybody who would listen that I wanted to do a series for the last 10 years. But I wouldn’t do it if I was just another cop pushing bad guys up against the wall.
‘Maaligai,’ where I play a dual role of a cop and a princess, initially was to be made as a Kannada movie. My producers from Mumbai and director Dil Sathya felt that it should be made as a bilingual in Tamil also, as I have a good market in K’town.
Persistence and determination are incredibly important. But sometimes you need to analyze the situation and understand when you’re wrong. You need to be able to cop to being wrong, learn to change, and continue to grow as a human being.
If your neighbors think you’re a detective because a cop always brings you home, you might be a redneck.
Asians narratively in shows are insignificant. They’re the cop or the waitress or whatever it is. You see them in the background.
If I was to do anything besides acting, I would be a fireman or a beat cop. I’d do a regular job.
I took the California Highway Patrol exam and didn’t pass, so I tried to be a cop and failed.
Every cop isn’t a bad cop just like every NFL player that makes a mistake, we’re not all bad guys.
Justice is expensive in America. There are no Free Passes… You might want to remember this, the next time you get careless and blow off a few Parking Tickets. They will come back to haunt you the next time you see a Cop car in your rear-view mirror.
We get picked up in these Rolls Royces and get three miles down the highway and five cop cars pull us over.
Being a cop is often seeing the worst of the human condition and behavior. With all of that said, there is no reason that Mike Brown and also Eric Garner are dead today – except bad policing, excessive force, and the hunt-and-capture-prey mentality many thrill-seeking cops have adapted.
I love Sanjeev Kumar’s cop portion in ‘Sholay.’ Manoj Bajpayee in ‘Shool’ was also amazing.
Loretta Lynch is supremely qualified to be our nation’s top cop, and she should be confirmed immediately.
I play a tough cop in ‘Very Good’ and the role is quite similar to Dhaya Nayak, Mumbai’s popular encounter specialist. I have made all efforts to fit the role.
I’m sure I took some licks at the system, and at trials and lawyers in general. I’ve seen enough of them for so many years both as a cop and a defendant in defamation cases.
‘Colors’ is pretty good. It takes you inside the cop car bit. I like reality myself. I like reality-based kind of movies.
When I was getting started, I was so busy just fighting my way through, and I was under contract at Warner Brothers. I did 40 hours of color television with the late Robert Taylor as a young cop.
Between the ages of 18 and 20, I made three hour-long films. One was a superhero film called ‘Carbolic Soap.’ One was a cop film called ‘Dead Right.’ And the other was called ‘A Fistful Of Fingers.’
We’re all used to seeing a lot of cop shows, some of them brilliant, some of them very generic.
In the beginning Remo is a very New York street cop who changes and is changed as he moves along.
I’ve never been a cop nor hope to be a cop, thanks.
I’m an L.A. girl who became a tough New York cop.
Although I played a cop in ‘Jatt & Juliet 2,’ it was a comic role, so playing a serious cop with an important role in ‘Udta Punjab’ was a change.
The Violence Against Women Act is so important. It provides money to train the cop on the beat, to train the judges that this is a new day, that we won’t tolerate this violence and to know how to deal with it.
I wish you could see a new Cro Cop, 15 years younger. I wish it was possible.
Cops, more than firefighters, EMTs or other public safety employees, almost always get the first glance of the human condition at the worst, most lethal moments; nobody calls a cop with good news.
One of the things I would love to do is ‘Axe Cop,’ which is a comic book. I would like to be involved in ‘Axe Cop’ someday. I would also love to be in a Western.
I don’t know what it is about me and this cop thing, but I get a lot of cop offers. Everyone always assumes that I’m someone on the force, but as long as they are paying me, I will play a cop until the day I die.
You can’t beat a cop drama. That’s what everybody seems to want to watch.
There are different types of double act: the classic dumb-and-dumber, like Morecambe and Wise; the good cop/bad cop, where one’s a bit spiky and the other’s daft. Sue Perkins and I take what we might call the Ant and Dec approach: the double act came out of our friendship.
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.
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.
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.
It’s not a straight line to do anything breaking the law. Because if it is, basically you’re saying if I cop to having PTSD, I can go out and slap somebody around all I want, and when the cops show up, I can claim I am a veteran, and I got PTSD – that’s not how that works.
I remember being at the premiere of ‘Beverly Hills Cop II’ and the tremendous reaction from the crowd outside, then going to a party at a hotel afterwards where the speakers were blasting ‘Shakedown,’ a song from the movie. That felt like a show biz moment to me.
Most cop movies and TV shows are fantasies.
One of the things that I like about ‘Narcos’ is that not only Pablo but with all the characters – this is not a black and white show. This is not a regular American cop show where two cool cops go to save a country from a bad guy. All the characters are very complex.
I have played a cop a lot over the years and sometimes I get a bit scared of being typecast.
Privately, we always called ‘Hill Street’ ‘Cop Soap.’
Before 9/11, I was playing a wide range of characters. I would play a lover, a cop, a father. As long as I could create the illusion of the character, the part was given to me. But after 9/11, something changed. We became the villains, the bad guys. I don’t mind to play the bad guy as long as the bad guy has a base.
Any street cop knows you will be sued or involved in some type of litigation throughout your career.
I’ve played a lot of cops. In fact, my father was a cop.
My siblings and I, we were raised on TV and films. Not a day went by that we weren’t watching one of three movies – ‘Caddyshack,’ ‘Animal House,’ ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ – on rotation. Our comedy, our personalities were set watching ‘Sesame Street’: these really sort of wacky, Jim Henson-y characters.
When I went through the Simpson case, I was a cop. Then I was a good cop. Then I was a bad cop. Then I had the media camped out in front of my house when I retired. Then, you know, I am the evilest thing on the planet. Then I write a few books, and then I start getting involved, like the Martha Moxley case.
To me, when I watch movies, it’s always fun to watch the bad cop or the bad guy.
When I was a teacher, I’d walk into the classroom. I stood at the board. I was the man. I directed operations. I was an intellectual and artistic and moral traffic cop, and I – and I would direct the class, most of the time.
My dad was a New York City cop. His father was a New York City fireman. And my mother’s dad was a city taxi driver.
If you haven’t seen your wife smile at a traffic cop, you haven’t seen her smile her prettiest.
It’s an interesting situation to be in to play a cop on TV and to know so many police officers through our training and our advisors.
To a certain extent, I have to be the president’s bad cop from time to time. I have to look people in the eye and tell them, ‘No, we don’t have enough money for that.’ That is not a very popular thing to do in Washington.
