Cop Quotes

• It seemed to me... that the only valid people to deal with crime were cops, and I would like to make the lead character, rather than a single person, a squad of cops.

  Ed McBain

  Character, Squad, People

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• Did you ever stop to think why cops are always famous for being dumb? Simple. Because they don't have to be anything else.

  Orson Welles

  Stupid, Simple, Thinking

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• If you haven't seen your wife smile at a traffic cop, you haven't seen her smile her prettiest.

  Kin Hubbard

  Smile, Wife, Funny Marriage

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• People always say that you can't please everybody. I think that's a cop-out. Why not attempt it? 'Cause think of all the people you will please if you try.

  Kanye West

  Thinking, People, Trying

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• The best car safety device is a rear-view mirror with a cop in it.

  Dudley Moore

  Views, Mirrors, Safety

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• People don't know where to place me. Terry Gilliam used me as a quirky cop in 'Twelve Monkeys', and then he hired me again to be an effeminate hotel clerk in 'Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas'. Another time, I was shooting this indie film 'The Souler Opposite' and six days a week, I'm playing this big puppy dog, then I come to the 'NYPD Blue' set and become this scumbag.

  Christopher Meloni

  Dog, Vegas, Blue

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• My grandfather was a cop in Long Island. I often try to draw on things that I've heard about him.

  Yancy Butler

  Islands, Long, Grandfather

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• I've been telling anybody who would listen that I wanted to do a series for the last 10 years. But I wouldn't do it if I was just another cop pushing bad guys up against the wall.

  William Petersen

  Wall, Years, Guy

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• 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

  Phones, Play, Cities

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• I've always thought live albums were cop-outs.

  David Coverdale

  Albums

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• It was a department where you had honesty and integrity stamped right on you when you came into the Los Angeles Police Department. If you violated that, or if you were a dishonest cop, you were terrible. We got rid of you as quickly as possible.

  Daryl Gates

  Honesty, Integrity, Police

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• I don't know if I am cut out to playing a bad character or not - I really should give it a shot. I would like to play the voice of a baddie, but that's really just a cop-out!

  Lindsay Lohan

  Character, Cutting, Play

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• I think every actor wants to be an FBI or cop at one point.

  Aaron Eckhart

  Thinking, Actors, Want

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

  Joseph Wambaugh

  Real, Onions, Fields

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• As governor, there isn't a lot I can do beyond that to crack down on crime. Law enforcement is really a local issue. It's the cops' job to tighten down on criminals.

  Jesse Ventura

  Jobs, Law, Issues

  Jesse Ventura (2000). “I Ain't Got Time to Bleed: Reworking the Body Politic from the Bottom Up”, p.33, Villard

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• We get picked up in these Rolls Royces and get three miles down the highway and five cop cars pull us over.

  Johnny Thunders

  Car, Three, Rolls Royce

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• I've never been a cop nor hope to be a cop, thanks.

  Ed McBain

  Thanks

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• 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

  Police, Onions, Fields

  Interview with Ann Bruns, www.bookreporter.com. May 17, 2002.

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• Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think.

  Richard Dawkins

  Faith, Atheist, Thinking

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• I know there were many good policemen who died doing their duty. Some of the cops were even friends of ours. But a cop can go both ways.

  Martin Scorsese

  Way, Duty, Policemen

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• As a former cop, I respect and appreciate those who've dedicated their lives to serving others as well as those who appreciate the rule of law and honor it.

  Dave Reichert

  Law, Appreciate, Honor

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• Look at the number of cop shows and lawyer shows and forensics shows... I think there could be room for two quite different examinations of the same political office.

  Geena Davis

  Thinking, Two, Numbers

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• The Violence Against Women Act is so important. It provides money to train the cop on the beat, to train the judges that this is a new day, that we won't tolerate this violence and to know how to deal with it.

  Patricia Ireland

  New Day, Judging, Important

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• Now I know why guys like to hug girls. You guys just want to cop a feel. I can't believe that I've fallen for it all these years!

  Sherilyn Fenn

  Girl, Believe, Years

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• Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence.

  Richard Dawkins

  Faith, Atheist, Thinking

  Richard Dawkins' Speech at the Edinburgh International Science Festival (April 15, 1992); quoted in "EDITORIAL: A scientist's case against God", "The Independent"(London), (p. 17), April 20, 1992.

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