Cop famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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If a cop sees a person running out of a store with a gun he's seeing a crime. He's not seeing a person standing.
-- Al Sharpton -
What do we want? Dead cops. When do we want it? Now.
-- Al Sharpton -
It's a great feeling to know that 100 cops want to stop you doing something and they can't.
-- Alain Robert -
I'll buy metaphor, but simile's a cop-out used by scaredycats who won't commit to anything. Simile's for cowards.
-- Alan Garner -
Violent crime rates fell steadily from 1993 to 2002, and this nearly coincides with the establishment of the community policing program known as the COPS program under the Clinton administration.
-- Alan Mollohan -
An anarchist is someone who doesn't need a cop to make him behave.
-- Ammon Hennacy -
Cops and robbers resemble each other, so there's not a lot to learn in terms of learning the logistics of committing the crime or investigating the crime.
-- Andre Braugher -
Most investigators don't even know what the word means. You stop the cops from using informants and the only crimes they'd ever solve would be those by deranged postal workers who come to work once too often.
-- Andrew Vachss -
Killing a cop just because he's a cop, that'll happen. And that should happen. And there's nothing inhuman about it at all. It's survival. It's the most human thing in the world.
-- Bernardine Dohrn -
Negotiating with Disney isn't like good cop/bad cop; it's like bad cop/Antichrist.
-- Bill Plympton -
It is time to put more cops on the beat and remove our most violent repeat offenders from our neighborhood streets.
-- Bill Schuette -
There are rules in movies. I did a movie playing a bad cop who was a ***** addict but they wouldn't let me smoke in a movie.
-- Billy Bob Thornton -
There's nothing wrong with being a cop. There's nothing wrong with being a white person. It's about where your heart is...We've got to get everyone beyond the xenophobic isolationism.
-- Bobby Seale -
I’ve made upwards of a million bucks in the cops and robbers business.
-- Broderick Crawford -
I’ve always resented the fact that when a cop drives by I feel paranoid instead of protected.
-- Buddy Wakefield -
Only cops and vampires have to have an invitation to enter.
-- Christopher Moore -
How'd it go with Leesha?" "It was great! We were bad cop and bad cop!
-- Cinda Williams Chima -
The right to freedom of association is fine, but why shouldn't the cops be allowed to mine your social network to figure out if you're hanging out with gangbangers and terrorists?
-- Cory Doctorow -
I waver between a cop-out agnostic and principled atheism
-- Dan Savage -
I'd love to do a cop film in America. That's a genre I absolutely adore.
-- Danny Boyle -
I've always thought live albums were cop-outs.
-- David Coverdale -
I like to stay within the context of the character's background. If he's a cop, I have to make sure the audience is convinced that this person, a cop, can do only so much without a gun.
-- Donnie Yen -
My action follows my characters. If a character is a cop, you cannot be posing all the time, you cannot fly off the roof because it doesn't make any sense - it's not practical.
-- Donnie Yen -
I've always been fascinated by Baretta and Donny Brasco, and other undercover cops in movies.
-- Dylan McDermott -
What the cops did to Rodney King was wrong, and the officers who beat him should be sent straight to prison.
-- Eazy-E -
I've never been a cop nor hope to be a cop, thanks.
-- Ed McBain -
Well, for one thing, you know my dad was a cop.
-- Edward Burns -
What I know from my friends who are cops is they keep their houses very clean, because they say you never know if you're coming back or not.
-- Emily Procter -
Cops today are nothing but an armed tax collector
-- Frank Serpico -
Sinead broke in. "The cops need to know what to do with Evan, Amy. What should I tell them?" "Shoot to kill?" Ian suggested.
-- Gordon Korman -
Anybody who thinks talk is cheap has never argued with a traffic cop.
-- Henny Youngman -
My acting range is incredibly limited and narrow, but I'm a good heavy. I'm a good authoritarian figure; I don't know why. "Can you be a cop?" Sure. "Can you be a Marine?" Absolutely. Well, at least in a movie.
-- Henry Rollins -
Avoid being seized by the police. The cops are not your friends. Don't tell them anything.
-- Hunter S. Thompson -
If you believe that I'm a cop killer, you believe David Bowie is an astronaut.
-- Ice T -
She had wailed loudly enough to wake the dead and make them call the cops.
-- Ilona Andrews -
What are the rules," The cop said. "There are none." Vishous spread his stance and braced himself. "Do whatever you want...but you have to break me. You've got to tear me apart.
-- J.R. Ward -
When he ran from a cop, his transitions from accelerating walk to easy jog trot to brisk canter to headlong gallop to flogged-piston sprint . . . were as distinct and as soberly in order as an automatic gearshift.
-- James Agee -
If Anderson was the good cop, and Blake was the bad cop, Jamaal was the complete psycho cop.
-- Jenna Black -
When David killed Goliath, Mae Young called the cops.
-- Jerry Lawler -
Bisexuality is not so much a cop-out as a fearful compromise.
-- Jill Johnston -
There's good and evil going on. We have cops. We have robbers.
-- Joe Mantegna -
We get picked up in these Rolls Royces and get three miles down the highway and five cop cars pull us over.
-- Johnny Thunders -
We make violent cops, we make violent criminals, and no wonder we have shootouts in slums all of the time.
-- Jose Padilha -
...Jake, a homosexual cop buried so deep in the closet he didn't know where to look for himself.
-- Josh Lanyon -
If you're going to hit a car, try to be sure that it's not a cop car
-- Judy Gold -
Though a good cop, Luc Claudel has the patience of a firecracker, the sensitivity of Vlad the Impaler, and a persistent skepticism as to the value of forensic anthropology. Snappy dresser, though.
-- Kathy Reichs -
One of the things I would love to do is Axe Cop, which is a comic book. I would like to be involved in Axe Cop someday. I would also love to be in a Western.
-- Ken Marino -
They would almost throw the cops in jail when they tried to arrest me.
-- Lawrence Taylor -
I've never played anybody like a cop before.
-- Leelee Sobieski -
Post-apocalyptic novels tell you that in the future there is some great war. I would tell you that most cops say that it's going on right now.
-- Lisa Gardner -
It's a lot of crooked cops out there. They manipulate the system.
-- Ludacris -
His idea of traffic safety is going too fast for the cops to catch up.
-- Mira Grant -
I do not know if all cops are poets, but I know that all cops carry guns with triggers.
-- Ralph Ellison -
I come from a family of cops, and all of them share that understanding that they put their lives on the line.
-- Ryan Reynolds -
When your dad's a cop, calling 911 is really just like calling Dad at work.
-- Ryan Reynolds -
There's really no such thing as an 'ex-cop' or a cop who's 'off-duty' or 'retired.' Once trained, once indoctrinated, a cop is always alert, assessing reality in terms of its potential for illegal acts.
-- Sue Grafton -
My rhymes are like shot clocks, interstate cops and blood clots, my point is your flow gets stopped.
-- Talib Kweli -
Murder is such a charged word. You know how some people fixate and won't let things go? They're called cops.
-- Tim Dorsey -
I've never been arrested. I've been stopped, searched and had a gun put to my head by the Chicago cops.
-- Tim Meadows -
I don't want to play fat cops for the rest of my life.
-- Will Patton -
In the domain of cops and robbers, an interdiction serves to structure a black market and a shadow economy.
-- William Irwin Thompson -
I can fully appreciate the fury and anger that a person can feel when put through a humiliating experience by a cop, but I would recommend strongly that a person maintain his cool, and in no circumstances lose his temper. If you lose your temper, you are playing right into the cop's hands.
-- William Powell -
When seconds count, the cops are just minutes away.
-- Clint Smith -
Everyone wants to be part of the 99%, even the cops are like, "No, no, man. I'm part of the 99% too." No one wants to be part of the 1%.
-- Eric Drooker -
We used to call the 1% the ruling class, but America's never felt comfortable using that terminology. It was taboo to talk about class war. Americans are okay talking about it like this; everyone wants to be part of the 99%, even the cops are like, "No, no, man. I'm part of the 99% too." No one wants to be part of the 1%.
-- Eric Drooker -
Once I became a cop and it's like when I got back into drumming; if I focus on something I become that, so I became a cop.
-- Eric Hernandez -
I called my family, saying, "Guess what? I got a new show. It's about a cop who travels in time." And they said, "I think we've seen that one."
-- Jason O'Mara -
If I'm a criminal, and I'm confronted with a 7-foot tall cop and an albino cop, I'm gonna be so lost, I'm spilling my guts.
-- Joelle Carter -
I would never defend a cop - though I did on a few private cases, when cops were acting not as cops but as private citizens.
-- Lynne Stewart -
I'm thrilled to feel that I can rely on myself totally and absolutely; that my children are being brought up so that when they meet a problem they can't cop out by foisting it off on God.
-- Madalyn Murray O'Hair -
I've only played gangsters and cops, and I always have to be serious.
-- Manny Montana -
I cop a fair bit of flack for going from 'such a babe to such a boy'. I wanted to share (that) story.
-- Ruby Rose -
'The system made me do it' is the perfect cop-out for today's managers.
-- Pankaj Ghemawat -
It doesn't take a brain surgeon to figure out that if you stop or curtail stop-and-frisk, or if cops are reluctant to do it, violent crimes are going to go up.
-- Raymond Kelly -
A woman driver went through a red light. The cop stopped her and said, Lady, didn't you see that red light? The woman said, You've seen one, you've seen them all.
-- Joey Bishop -
I'm not excusing the illegal act. I am here illegally. I'm here illegally, without authorization. That's a fact. That's nothing you can call the Orwellian cops about. But I am a human being, so therefore I am not illegal. That's also a fact.
-- Jose Antonio Vargas -
I think that Medvedev and Putin are in on it together. One is playing the good cop and the other the bad cop.
-- Yekaterina Samutsevich
