137 Cop Quotes for You to Enjoy

There is no such thing as a bad cop, only disturbing and dominant cop thinking that will invariably lead to excessive force and tragic outcomes. Greg Boyle

Will Thinking Bad Outcomes Disturbing Invariably Only Excessive Lead Force Tragic Dominant Cop Thing

A couple of my favourite cop movies are 'I Love a Man in Uniform' and 'The Long Goodbye.' Gregory Smith

Love Man Long Favourite Goodbye Couple Movies Uniform Cop

The next day, I got a phone call from him and he told me to come and read for a movie called New Jack City. So I went over there and they told me I was gonna wear dreads and play a cop. Ice T

When 'Supernatural' came out, there were a lot of procedurals and you were either a doctor or a cop or lawyer, otherwise the show didn't stay on TV. And then we came around, and I don't want to say we were trailblazers, but we found our niche. Jared Padalecki

When 'Line of Duty' started on BBC2, there was a feeling that it couldn't ever become a big show because the BBC2 drama budget is much smaller, and a returning cop series would take away from the Stephen Poliakoff/David Hare stuff that they love to commission. Jed Mercurio

I felt like hip-hop was my music, it was like my outsider music... but then my mom started answering our phone, 'Yo, what's up.' She was hearing me talk to my friends. I was like, 'No, mom, don't cop the hip-hop talk.' Jenny Lewis

Music Mom Me Phone Our Outsider Like Talk She Felt Answering Hip-Hop Hearing Up Friends Then Cop Started

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

Comedy Veteran Idea Always Lot Loved Rookie Cop

I'm playing a cop in Chicago. So I have to look beefier - like a guy who eats steak and potatoes. Jesse Lee Soffer

Eats Guy Potatoes Steak Like Look Chicago Who Cop Playing

So, through playing with Cop I realized that there is a potentially interested audience out in the world. Jim Coleman

World Out Potentially Through Audience Interested Realized Cop Playing

First, I'm trying to edit down about 7 hours of material which I made prior to the Cop days and find some way to get it out. This stuff is pretty out there, mostly sonic collages and tape manipulations. Jim Coleman

I was a cop in the Las Vegas Police Department in 1957. I was very young when I joined. But then I became a federal narcotics agent after that, in Vegas, and that propelled me into my future to fight the drug traffickers. Joe Arpaio

Future Me Fight Police Young Joined Federal Vegas Police Department Became Very Department After Agent Then Cop Las Vegas

The Onion Field, that one got pretty close to me because I was a cop when it happened. I saw some of the indifference that my police department showed to the surviving officer. Joseph Wambaugh

Me Police Field Saw Some Pretty Indifference Onion Police Department Because Got Close Surviving Officer Department Happened Cop

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

Made Field Onion Writer Knew Over Real Anymore Then Cop

I'm sure I took some licks at the system, and at trials and lawyers in general. I've seen enough of them for so many years both as a cop and a defendant in defamation cases. Joseph Wambaugh

Trials Seen Enough Took System Some Cases General Lawyers Both Sure Years So Many Years Them Many Cop Defamation Defendant

Given that I often wear shorts with a T-shirt, baseball cap, and backpack most days, a crew-neck shirt gives me the appearance of an undercover cop on the way to a sting operation at a summer camp. Josh Gondelman

I'll cop to this: so much of doing a 22-episode show is just keeping your head above water. Joshua Jackson

Water Above Head Doing Just Much Your Show Cop Keeping

Not all detectives are the same - some play bad cop, some are awkward, some are funny. Juliette Lewis

Funny Bad Detectives Some Same Play Cop Awkward

My nana was a detective; my nana was a great cop. You also have bad cops that were bullied in school or whatever and think that they have power, and that makes other cops look bad. Kane Brown

Great You School Power Whatever Think Other Bad Detective Look Also Makes Were Bullied Cop Cops

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

Mistake Every Bad Bad Guys Guys Like Makes Just Cop Player

One of my first observations about New York that I was so fascinated with was that you'd be at a stoplight, and you're with everybody; there's a homeless dude and some weird celebrity and a cop and someone who looks exactly like you. Kevin Morby

Being a cop is often seeing the worst of the human condition and behavior. With all of that said, there is no reason that Mike Brown and also Eric Garner are dead today - except bad policing, excessive force, and the hunt-and-capture-prey mentality many thrill-seeking cops have adapted. Killer Mike

Today Behavior Worst Bad Seeing Brown Mentality No Reason Except Excessive Also Dead Force Policing Said Eric Condition Often Human Being Human Condition Mike Reason Many Cop Garner Cops Adapted

My castings sort of go in phases. There'll be several icy professional parts - a lawyer or a cop. And then there'll be the intelligent-but-wounded group and then the period things. It goes in sequence. Laura Linney

Lawyer Group Several Period Sort Parts Go Goes Icy Then Sequence Professional Cop Things Phases

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