Cop Quotes · Page 5

When seconds count, the cops are just minutes away.

— Clint Smith

Playing a cop has always been lucky for me.

— Ashok Saraf

Cops today are nothing but an armed tax collector

— Frank Serpico

As a kid, I was never like, 'I'm going to be a cop.'

— Katy O'Brian

I know these dirty cops that'll get us in if we murder some Wop.

— Big Pun

It's a lot of crooked cops out there. They manipulate the system.

— Ludacris

What do we want? Dead cops. When do we want it? Now.

— Al Sharpton

And eat lots of mints, it fools the cops.

— Greg Proops

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

— Brent Sexton

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

— Dred Scott

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

— Titus Welliver

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

— Gordon Korman

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

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

— Keith Carradine

“I am thinking of becoming a cop because no matter how abusive you are, it seems to be a job for life!”

— Steven Magee

The NYPD was ubiquitous. They were always around Malcolm X. Whenever Malcolm spoke, there would be one or two dozen cops all…

— Manning Marable

When you decide to be something, you can be it. That's what they don't tell you in the church. When I was…

— Frank Costello

I lived in Chicago, in a shady part of town, and the cops would always stop me since I'm Mexican and I…

— Michael Pena

First, I'm trying to edit down about 7 hours of material which I made prior to the Cop days and find some…

— Jim Coleman

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,…

— Aaron Douglas

I'm quite proud of what I anticipated about reality television from my books in the early '90s, which I based on the…

— William Gibson

On 'The Messenger,' just imagining playing the part of a soldier in that movie was kind of hard for me. And in…

— Woody Harrelson

Being a regular in a television series, for me - if I wanted to be a cop, I woulda went to cop…

— Michael Hogan

MR. KHARIS: 'Does Mr. Celine seriously suggest that the United States Government is in need of a guardian?' MR. CELINE: 'I am…

— Robert Anton Wilson

American cops are the ones who are in the emergency rooms. They're the ones who go to the morgues. They're the ones…

— Don Winslow

We used to call the 1% the ruling class, but America's never felt comfortable using that terminology. It was taboo to talk…

— Eric Drooker

believe that you've had most of your important memories by the time you're thirty. After that, memory becomes water overflowing into an…

— Douglas Coupland

“In Woolrich's crime fiction there is a gradual development from pulp to noir. The earlier a story, the more likely it stresses…

— Francis M. Nevins

I was petrified because all my friends would be going to Washington, DC, to protest. I was sixteen, and I was like,…

— Gus Van Sant

They [policemen] are in a profession that if you do the job incorrectly, or proceeding incorrectly, it's over for you because there…

— Greg Gutfeld

In Crash, you've got a pathological cop who at the end justifies police brutality. He tells the naïve, young cop that you're…

— Ishmael Reed

I carry a gun cause a cop is too heavy.

— John Steinbeck

If the cops didn't see it, I didn't do it!

— George Carlin

Bisexuality is not so much a cop-out as a fearful compromise.

— Jill Johnston

I like strong women. I think a lot of women relate to strong characters, and a cop is still a strong character.

— Ally Walker

How'd it go with Leesha?" "It was great! We were bad cop and bad cop!

— Cinda Williams Chima

The data don't lie: a Chicago street prostitute is more likely to have sex with a cop than to be arrested by…

— Anonymous

If your neighbors think you're a detective because a cop always brings you home, you might be a redneck.

— Jeff Foxworthy

[My] dream writers room: "'Naked City.' Because it still holds up as the absolutely quintessential New York pure cop procedural."

— Dick Wolf