15 Detectives Quotes for You to Enjoy

The most successful detectives owe their success to noticing small signs. Scouts are natural detectives and never let the smallest detail escape them. These small things are called by Scouts 'Sign.' Robert Baden-Powell

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You're right on the money with that. We're all like detectives in life. There's something at the end of the trail that we're all looking for. David Lynch

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With 'Black Rain,' I spent a lot of time with homicide detectives, and I spent a lot of time with different brokers on 'Wall Street.' It helps get the rhythm of the piece and the tone, and how overplayed or underplayed it might be. That's also the magic of movies: You get to hang out and live these different lives. Michael Douglas

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

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The world domination plan goal is that I would love Veronica Mars to become a brand like Sherlock Holmes is a brand, like Nancy Drew, in a way, is a brand. When people start listing who are the great fictional detectives, I want Veronica Mars to make that list. That would be the dream scenario. Rob Thomas

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Yes, and many times it's frustrating, because I'm simply part of the show, and I'm not in the creative end of it, who goes out with detectives and tries to find these things out. Robert Stack

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In the 1970s, there was a trend for all detectives on TV to have some quirk or gimmick, and this was often physical. Mark Billingham

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It's a very, very fascinating story for me, cause it's about a man who's been doing bad; bad things. And he's a father of four children in parochial school, he's a lieutenant of detectives, but he's in conflict with himself and with trying to do what's right. Harvey Keitel

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The kind of issues that we face as detectives are similar to what the other married couples out there are facing, or the brother and sister, or the brother and brother are facing. Relationships are universal. Michael Ealy

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My strongest hope is for a cameo as a band playing in a club visited by the detectives on 'Law & Order: SVU' during the course of an investigation, maybe during sound check, or something, so they can force us to stop playing while they question the sound guy. John Darnielle

I love soap operas - the stories, the plots! And I love the game shows and the courtroom dramas and the detectives - Jessica Fletcher, 'Columbo,' 'Perry Mason,' 'L.A. Law.' Any sense of guilt appeals to me in a television program - a sense of guilt, or a sense of making a lot of money. Peter Ackroyd

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The goal of 'Data Detectives' is to spark the imagination of students around the globe by making them think about new technologies that will impact humanity in ways similar to language and art. Rick Smolan

I've played lots of law enforcement agents, and I do have friends that are in the bureau, in the DEA, and who are detectives and captains. Malik Yoba

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Well I think that the mind of a serial killer and the mind of the detectives represent the duality we face as people. Paul Guilfoyle

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