Top 60 Policeman Quotes

In America, the policeman is a working-class hero. In England, the policeman is a working-class traitor.

Yes, I performed at the Secret Policeman’s Ball at Radio City Music Hall and loved every minute.

So there’s no such thing as one too many this, one too many that. I remember, you’re reminding me of early in my career, somebody said to me: why are you taking so many roles as a policeman.

I just fooled around in front of the camera and earned money for it. Every policeman, every soldier, every nurse – they all do more for society. I just rent my face.

Becoming a writer is not a ‘career decision’ like becoming a doctor or a policeman. You don’t choose it so much as get chosen, and once you accept the fact that you’re not fit for anything else, you have to be prepared to walk a long, hard road for the rest of your days.

I came from a socially deprived background when I was 15, 16 years old, but one thing I knew was one – you don’t abuse a policeman, and two – you don’t steal things.

Surely the fact that a uniformed police officer is wearing his hair below his collar will make him no less identifiable as a policeman.

The policeman must be a minister, a social worker, a diplomat, a tough guy, and a gentleman. And, of course, he’d have to be a genius… For he will have to feed a family on a policeman’s salary.

There is nothing more unaesthetic than a policeman.

It’s basically taking a 911 call, bringing them on stage and dealing with it just like when I was a Chicago policeman for 12 years. I personally become involved. Where Jerry lets people tell their story and lets everything happen on stage, I kind of go after the bad guy and protect the little guy.

If I became president now I would immediately pass a law that makes every citizen a policeman or a soldier.

No, I wouldn’t like to be a policeman.

At eight, I made a commitment to poetry. Until then, I thought I’d be a policeman. But I went a whole night without sleeping, and the next day the world had changed. It needed a different language.

When he realized who he’d pulled over, the policeman shook his head in disbelief. He told me of all people I should know better. He gave me a real dressing down, but let me go.

I have never seen a situation so dismal that a policeman couldn’t make it worse.

Confronted with the choice, the American people would choose the policeman’s truncheon over the anarchist’s bomb.

What is a policeman made of? He, of all men, is once the most needed and the most unwanted. He’s a strangely nameless creature who is ‘Sir’ to his face and ‘Fuzz’ to his back.

America is a world leader, but we should not be its policeman or ATM.

I am my own policeman.

Why does America always need to be the world’s policeman?

Since I was 14, I wanted to make music, but I think I would also have made a good policeman. When I was eight, I wanted to be one so I could tell people off.

When the penalty for a policeman’s mistake is to put a criminal back out on the street, then we are hurting America; we are hurting our law-abiding citizens.

I was a policeman for 18 years.

I am a son of my nation. It does not matter whether I am prime minister, a soldier, or a policeman. The main thing is to be useful to the people, that I can look into people’s eyes, and that people see that there are real benefits from my activities.

I had that whole banter with the police. My mates used to make up raps about Dad being a policeman, it’s hilarious.

When I was younger I was always big; I was a fat boy at school. I had an early growth spurt, and when I went to secondary school I was tall enough to be a policeman.

As a little boy, I wanted to be a policeman. And then as I got older, and I saw my dad in the car business, an automobile executive.

Publicity is justly commended as a remedy for social and industrial diseases. Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants; electric light the most efficient policeman.

I hold that the beginning of modern Irish drama was in the winter of 1898, at a school feast at Coole, when Douglas Hyde and Miss Norma Borthwick acted in Irish in a Punch and Judy show; and the delighted children went back to tell their parents what grand curses ‘An Craoibhin’ had put on the baby and the policeman.

We met in Cracker. I played a maniac fan who murders a policeman and she did my makeup. I thought anyone interested in me looking like that must have genuinely liked me.

The Jersey Shore is the kind of place where the policeman has a little cottage that might have been in the family for years and many other people call home.

Don’t let anybody make you think God chose America as His divine messianic force to be a sort of policeman of the whole world.

A policeman, as you discover, has to put up with a hell of a lot of abuse. A man in any other line of work would nail a guy who laid that kind of abuse on him. I know I would.

U.S. society doesn’t want to play the role of international policeman.

It’s hard to describe yourself as a hero – I just like to think of myself as a policeman. People can look to you like that, as a good guy who can help people.

My old fella was a policeman; he was a chief inspector of the anti-terrorism squad.

Being a rock & roll star has become as legitimate a career option as being an astronaut or a policeman or a fireman.

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

When I was a kid, a policeman was someone you looked up to and respected.

A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.

I sometimes think it ironic for an ex-seaman, longshoreman, truck driver, policeman, bus driver, etc… to find success writing children’s novels.

I hope it will be set in California. In a way, I made a mistake, because a New Jersey policeman can’t operate that way in New York. But in California, he can move between different counties.

When I was young and we got caught pinching apples, we got a smack from the local policeman. Today if that happened he would be sued. There is a tendency to punish the victim, not the criminal. If someone broke into my house or my mum’s house, I worry that the burglar has more rights than me.

What you do as a policeman might be the right thing to do, but it’s not entertaining. I left that behind me.

Maybe I have some god-given gift to act as a policeman.

Kabir has special place for police in his heart. Whenever he sees a policeman, he wants to meet them. That’s why we celebrated his birthday with a police-themed party.

God, I’ve played a lot of policeman.

I don’t want to be the policeman of Lebanon. It’s not the business of Israel. Israel was not created to serve as a policeman of the region.

They think something’s gone wrong, but in Don’t Look Now, for instance, one scene was made by a mistake. It’s the scene where Donald Sutherland goes to look for the policeman who’s investigating the two women.

I’m from Chicago. My grandfather was a policeman, and my aunts are married to policemen.

The policeman isn’t there to create disorder; the policeman is there to preserve disorder.

‘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 started out on photography accidentally. A policeman came to a stop at the end of my street, and a guy knifed him at the end of my street. That’s how I became a photographer. I photographed the gangs that I went to school with.

I think Morse’s thing about being a poor policeman but a good detective is a very good description of him.

I rank myself no higher in the scheme of things than a policeman – whose utility would disappear if there were no criminals.

As international support for Obama’s decision to attack Syria has collapsed, along with the credibility of government claims, the administration has fallen back on a standard pretext for war crimes when all else fails: the credibility of the threats of the self-designated policeman of the world.

The U.S. cannot be the policeman of the world. When we tried that in Vietnam, they beat us up.

A director must be a policeman, a midwife, a psychoanalyst, a sycophant and a bastard.

It’s not easy being the world’s policeman. No one thanks you for it.