Detective Quote by Dennis Farina Download Open image “When I was younger, I watched all the detective shows.” — Dennis Farina ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Detective Shows Watched Younger
I didn't grow up watching detective shows. I've never even seen an episode of 'CSI.' — Cary Fukunaga Copy Share Image
There are so many detective shows on television, aren't there? There's a real glut of grisly and violent ones, that aren't my cup of… — Helen Baxendale Copy Share Image
I've always wanted to play a detective. Always loved detective shows, right back to 'Columbo', 'The Rockford Files', 'Starsky & Hutch'. — Ardal O'Hanlon Copy Share Image
I read two mysteries a day when I was a kid. All of Agatha Christie, all of 'Sherlock Holmes.' I've seen every single British… — Maureen Johnson Copy Share Image
I actually went back and watched all of 'True Detective''s Season One again, which I think is a true masterpiece. — David Harbour Copy Share Image
I was enamored of detectives as a teenager. I liked what they did - piecing things together, thinking about situations. But to get there?… — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
I loved 'True Detective' so much in Season 1, and then when the Season 2 monstrosity came around, I was like, 'What is this… — David Harbour Copy Share Image
'True Detective' was the last show I got crazy about, with its 'Silence of the Lambs'-style landscape and those strip mall badlands of America. — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
I knew 'True Detective' wasn't something I could allow anyone else to develop. But by the time HBO expressed an interest, I still had… — Nic Pizzolatto Copy Share Image
Personally, I like those mystery shows. Ever since I was a kid I've been crazy about blood and detectives and murder. Maybe I was… — Jack Paar Copy Share Image
Writer-directors are a little bit more liberal, rather than having just the writer on the set, because I think sometimes the writer becomes too… — Dennis Farina Copy Share Image
I never jumped into anything, and I never liked being cajoled into anything. I've pretty much always done things because I wanted to do… — Dennis Farina Copy Share Image
There's not too many offers that come my way about being in a musical. — Dennis Farina Copy Share Image
Car chases usually don't involve major criminals - they're usually guys afraid of getting another traffic ticket. — Dennis Farina Copy Share Image
I like working. I like getting up every morning and going somewhere. Where I do it or what form doesn't matter. — Dennis Farina Copy Share Image
My best year was probably 1948, and after that, it's been downhill for me. — Dennis Farina Copy Share Image
When I first got into acting, I never had any long-term goals, never had any plan. I just thought it would be a good… — Dennis Farina Copy Share Image
I don't like to be talked into anything. I don't want to be cajoled. — Dennis Farina Copy Share Image
What you do as a policeman might be the right thing to do, but it's not entertaining. I left that behind me. — Dennis Farina Copy Share Image
I realize that no one is going to come to me and ask me to be Julius Caesar or a romantic lead, but I… — Dennis Farina Copy Share Image
“When I saw the Twilight movies I thought being a Vampyre was so romantic. When my friends decided to be Vampyres it was so… — Abramelin Keldor Copy Share Image
“Stomach full of jitters, little beasts that were second cousins to guacamolians—little green monsters that wreaked havoc in your stomach.” — William Kely McClung Copy Share Image
I read a lot of 'Nancy Drew' books as a kid and considered myself a bit of an amateur detective. — Chelsea Cain Copy Share Image
It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective story. — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
Arthur Conan Doyle was entranced by the notion of a brilliant detective who can deduce everything a stranger has been up to from the… — Rafael Yglesias Copy Share Image
Sure, I'll have characters drop in and out of books but the main cast of characters always changes. Maybe I'm wrong but I think… — Carl Hiaasen Copy Share Image
“Frankly, I wish I could make my heart quit doing an extra thump when Wolfe says satisfactory, Archie. It's childish.” — Rex Stout Copy Share Image
I used to audition for 'NYPD Blue' quite a bit, so I had this stock New York detective character that I would bring in… — Mark Valley Copy Share Image
I've written a detective series myself, set in an imaginary, and slightly futuristic, Chinese city. The novels have an extremely tenuous relationship with the… — Liz Williams Copy Share Image
“Norm was lean, his short, straight black hair parted on the side, his mustache trimmed like he’d never heard of Adolf Hitler.” — Jane Sunday Copy Share Image
In the summer of 2010, I had decided to get into film and TV writing, so I wrote scripts for six different ideas I… — Nic Pizzolatto Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a police detective. In my work, particularly in documentaries, I am obsessed with finding things out, seeking ever-new facts and… — James Marsh Copy Share Image
