Cop Quotes · Page 5

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

— Alan Garner

A real cop fights real crime. A vice cop's only job is to ruin the party.

— Doug Stanhope

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

— Dylan McDermott

There is no tougher job in America than being a cop on the beat in a major city in this country, big…

— Mark Shields

Every cop isn't a bad cop just like every NFL player that makes a mistake, we're not all bad guys.

— Kenny Stills

I've always loved the idea of the rookie cop vs. the grizzled veteran. A lot of comedy can be mined from that.

— Jermaine Fowler

I’ll wait out here until the two of you are finished. Just call out if you need anything. Like a priest, cop,…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

You go into any doughnut shop and look at three cops having coffee, I guarantee I look like one of them.

— Dean Norris

There was a time when I liked a good riot. Put on some heavy old street clothes that could stand a bit…

— Warren Ellis

There's a long history of all kinds of cop films... But all these films are really about the same thing: the good…

— Bruce Willis

I always wanted to be a fireman, a cop, an Indian chief, a doctor, a lawyer. I always wanted to be all…

— Morgan Freeman

My wife drives the wrong way on a one way street. The cop pulled her over and asked, "Where are you going?"…

— Henny Youngman

I know an actor who would play one type of part but could never get cast as tough. Once he got cast…

— Paul Dano

This place is just too frickin precious," the cop said, eyeing a guy dressed in a hot pink leisure suit with makeup…

— J.R. Ward

The most experience I had in the criminology field is playing a thug as an actor. That was my first paid job.…

— Jeremy Renner

Being in this game if you are gonna sell drugs and make records too then as many records you make is gonna…

— Rakim

Kristin Gwynne has been writing some great stuff about the sexually violent element of "stop-and-frisk." This isn't just "turn out your pockets."…

— Melissa Gira Grant

I discovered a new thing in the Lord's Prayer that kind of hit me. "on earth as it is heaven" to me…

— Jim Carrey

So it is best to keep an open mind and be agnostic. At first sight that seems an unassailable position, at least…

— Richard Dawkins

New York cops are very specific in terms of the way they talk and the way they handle themselves. All these cliches…

— Theo James

I somewhere along the way became fascinated with exploring characters who are willing to put themselves into violent situations, whether it's football,…

— Peter Berg

Monitoring activities is neither new or intrusive. We did that with communities in terms of getting rid of the mob. And cops,…

— Greg Gutfeld

I don't really hang out with people. I like to be by myself. In fact, I've been arrested a few times because…

— Emo Philips

Every bad decision I've made has been based on money. I grew up in the projects and you don't turn down money…

— Eddie Murphy

If I'm a criminal, and I'm confronted with a 7-foot tall cop and an albino cop, I'm gonna be so lost, I'm…

— Joelle Carter

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

— William Irwin Thompson

My grandfather was a cop in Long Island. I often try to draw on things that I've heard about him.

— Yancy Butler

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

— Denis Leary

If Anderson was the good cop, and Blake was the bad cop, Jamaal was the complete psycho cop.

— Jenna Black

It's the ratings, stupid, don't you know? They've got us putting more fuzz and wuzz on the air, cop-show stuff.

— Dan Rather

I can't knock playing cops, because it pays the bills, but I'm tired of only being considered as a cop.

— Joe Don Baker

I would never defend a cop - though I did on a few private cases, when cops were acting not as cops…

— Lynne Stewart

...Jake, a homosexual cop buried so deep in the closet he didn't know where to look for himself.

— Josh Lanyon

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

— Ciaran Hinds

I've framed houses, worked on an asphalt crew, I was a cop, a lifeguard.

— Forrest Griffin

I have played a cop a lot over the years and sometimes I get a bit scared of being typecast.

— Vishwajeet Pradhan

Gomez is a by-the-book cop. He's the only character not to break bad.

— Steven Michael Quezada

Once I became a cop and it's like when I got back into drumming; if I focus on something I become that,…

— Eric Hernandez

Any time there's a lot of pressure, it's life and death, you go toward this very dark kind of humor. Soldiers do…

— Ronald Perelman

If you believe that I'm a cop killer, you believe David Bowie is an astronaut.

— Anonymous