Cop Quotes · Page 7

[Mel Gibson] played this kind of sadistic motorcycle cop. He was terrific. And he had this great sense of visual comedy.

— Keith Carradine

Few people understand the psychology of dealing with a highway traffic cop.

— Hunter S. Thompson

We're all used to seeing a lot of cop shows, some of them brilliant, some of them very generic.

— Nicola Walker

Sinead broke in. "The cops need to know what to do with Evan, Amy. What should I tell them?" "Shoot to kill?"…

— Gordon Korman

A really good uniformed cop has tremendous people skills, and they learn how to read people.

— Titus Welliver

The cops drive by to do some more good deeds A young black male spits a sunflower seed in the air.

— Dred Scott

Depending on the show, I've played a cop, a criminal, or a victim. So there's a range.

— Brent Sexton

Know my feelings about traffic laws? Cop didn't see it? I didn't do it.

— George Carlin

I will be known forever as the Puppy who chased a cutpurse and caught fish garbage instead. My descendants will pretend I'm…

— Tamora Pierce

I am relatively familiar with getting a good old rumping from the critics. In some cases, the critics just didn't like the…

— Guy Ritchie

People want a cop-out, listen I'm a realist and I talk about motivation, talk about all the things it takes to be…

— Mike Ditka

If I play a cop, it's always a racist cop or a trigger-happy cop or a crooked cop - but by and…

— M. C. Gainey

I cannot pay attention to what people say about my work. For me, personally, I am just this shards-and-ashes human being, who…

— Harlan Ellison

I never worried about becoming typecast. People have said that to me, but I never worried about it. As long as the…

— Chazz Palminteri

I called my family, saying, 'Guess what? I got a new show. It's about a cop who travels in time.' And they…

— Jason O'Mara

I'm not a fan of justifying bad behavior or justifying why people are the way they are. I think that's a cop…

— Charlize Theron

The streets of every city in America are filled with men who would pay all the money they could lay their hands…

— Hunter S. Thompson

Rita folded her arms around herself and peered up at me. “If you’d asked me three months ago I’d have said you…

— C.E. Murphy

I've made a career over the last seventeen years of mostly playing men in uniform, especially cops. The one thing for an…

— Benjamin Bratt

Cops never took anything on faith, and disbelieved every story that was told them on principle until and unless they could confirm…

— Dana Stabenow

The NYPD never really had anything to do with it. This is stuff I did on my own time. It just so…

— Ralph Sarchie

Wherever they’s a fight so hungry people can eat, I’ll be there. Wherever they’s a cop beatin’ up a guy, I’ll be…

— John Steinbeck

You do your job every day. When things go right, there's never any coverage. But when certain things happen, boy, the world…

— Rush Limbaugh

I think that's the mother and father of all cop-outs. It's an honest scientific quest to discover where this apparent improbability comes…

— Richard Dawkins

I've never been a cop hater. You know, when I was breaking the law, the cops were the opponent. I just thought…

— Ice T

I'd just like to know what a cop WOULD have to do to get indicted - and what good are cop cameras…

— Bill Maher

“When placing an emergency call, it is important to remember that a corrupt or incompetent cop may be on their way to…

— Steven Magee

In the beginning Remo is a very New York street cop who changes and is changed as he moves along.

— Fred Ward

As a black man, you run from the cops. It's different now, but back when I was coming up, you run.

— Rodney King

I’ve consequently played a lot of different cops from a lot of different kind of law enforcement agencies.

— Samuel L. Jackson

The Onion Field made a real writer. And then I knew it was over, I couldn't be a cop anymore.

— Joseph Wambaugh

My rhymes are like shot clocks, interstate cops and blood clots, my point is your flow gets stopped.

— Talib Kweli

I'm still picking pockets--I just do it as legally as I can. Being married to a cop limits certain activities.

— Anonymous

Perhaps the crime situation would be improved if we could get more cops off television and onto the streets.

— Anonymous

I play an encounter cop in 'Nee Ellam Nalla Varuva Da.' It is a good script.

— Samuthirakani

I don't believe in reincarnation. That's a cop-out, I know. I don't really want to be reincarnated.

— Rod Serling

Civilization is a youth with a molotov cocktail in his hand. Culture is the Soviet tank or L.A. cop that guns him…

— Edward Abbey

[Barack Obama] might say more about these rogue cops and their license to kill.

— Julianne Malveaux

Arnold Schwarzenegger announced he's running for governor. He's got a great slogan - 'Vote for me, or I'll make 'Kindergarten Cop II

— Craig Kilborn

There's a lot of meth [in Bisbee]. So there's an ex-cop-car Tahoe and a BE DRUG FREE van parked right in front…

— Doug Stanhope