Cop Quotes - Page 18

• I always wanted to be a fireman, a cop, an Indian chief, a doctor, a lawyer. I always wanted to be all these things, so I am drawn to these kinds of characters.

  Morgan Freeman

  Character, Doctors, Lawyer

  "Morgan Freeman - part two". The Gardian Interview at the BFI, www.theguardian.com. July 14, 2000.

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• Holdsworth is so damned good that I can't cop anything. I can't understand what he's doing. I've got to do this [does two-hand tapping], whereas he'll do it with one hand.

  Eddie Van Halen

  Hands, Two, Doe

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• When I was 13, Eddie Murphy was to me what Chris Tucker was to 13-year-olds when I made 'Rush Hour.' And 'Rush Hour' really came out of the fact that I grew up watching 'Beverly Hills Cop' and '48 Hrs.'

  Brett Ratner

  Years, Beverly Hills, Facts

  "The GQA: Brett Ratner". Interview with Devin Gordon, www.gq.com. October 31, 2011.

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• Now scarcely a week goes by without a news story about the cops swooping down on some adolescent prowler who is as skilled at breaking into computer systems as defense contractors are at breaking into the Federal budget.

  Russell Baker

  News Stories, Modern Life, Defense

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• Gimmicks come and go; the cop show seems one genre that will never leave - not as long as people like to sit at home in the suburbs and see what awful things go on in the cities.

  Tom Shales

  Home, Cities, Long

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• Everybody I hang with - the ranchers, the farmers, the cops, the teachers, the plumbers, everybody I hang with - they've got an alarm clock. They get up, they put their heart and their soul into being the very best that they can be. They want to be an asset to their families and their neighborhood. They want to be productive members of society.

  Ted Nugent

  Teacher, Heart, Soul

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Being accused of making money by selling sex in Hollywood, home of the casting couch and the gratuitous nude scene, is so rich with irony that it's a better subject for a comic novel than a column.... On one coast the cops are busting sex workers on Eighth Avenue, dragging them downtown to night court where they pay the fine and go right back to their corner; on another they're charging Heidi Fleiss with pandering in a town in which the verb is an art form.

  Anna Quindlen

  Art, Sex, Home

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• In America uniformed cops eat in coffee shops, diners and restaurants and I always feel safer having them around.

  Elizabeth Hurley

  Coffee, America, Diners

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I'd just like to know what a cop WOULD have to do to get indicted - and what good are cop cameras since Eric Garner IS on tape?

  Bill Maher

  Cameras, Eric, Tape

  Twitter post from Dec 04, 2014

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• 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

  Boys, Stories, Share

  "Ruby Rose says she doesn’t identify as female or male, after releasing a gender-bending short film" by Shannon Molloy, www.news.com.au. January 14, 2015.

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• What I'm trying to tell people is that police brutality in the 'hood is nothing new. And the thing is that whether this guy, the cop killer in my song, is real or not, believe it, there are people at that point.

  Ice T

  Song, Real, Believe

  Source: articles.latimes.com

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• There's a point where a cop pulls you out of that car and starts abusing you or beating on you and at that moment he is no longer within the law.

  Ice T

  Law, Car, Moments

  Source: articles.latimes.com

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• If you have a problem in mass society, you call the cops. The experts. You no longer have any operative connection with yourself or others, or with a functioning community.

  John Zerzan

  Community, Connections, Experts

  "'We don't know what's going to happen. If we say we're doomed, we are, full stop.' A Q&A with John Zerzan and Zander Sherman". logger.believermag.com. December 4, 2015.

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• Sometimes guns really matter. Protecting those who need protection - children, women, minorities in rough parts of town, old folks living in places where cops aren't nearby. Guns are true empowerment for the powerless.

  Maya Angelou

  Children, Gun, Empowerment

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• A Jewish man pulls up to the curb and asks the policeman, "Can I park here?" "No" says the cop. "What about all these other cars?" "They didn't ask!"

  Henny Youngman

  Funny, Humor, Men

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• My wife drives the wrong way on a one way street. The cop pulled her over and asked, "Where are you going?" My wife said, "I must be late, everyone is all coming back!"

  Henny Youngman

  Funny, Humor, Wife

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• Music meant more to me than a social life and just hangin out. haha just being tired of repacking my suit case every couple of days, and anytime i wanted to cop some new clothes i would have to throw away something I had to make room in the suitcase.

  G-Eazy

  Couple, Tired, Clothes

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• Once I became a cop. I dived into that career. I never wanted to be an LAPD officer because I thought 'LA is super dangerous, not the place I'd want to be a cop'. But as a boy of course I was into guns, cops and robbers, so that's why it was cool to me and thought 'Yeah I could do this job'.

  Eric Hernandez

  Jobs, Gun, Boys

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• 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

  Focus, Drumming, Ifs

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• My lawyer's opinion is that the cops might not actually be able to charge me with criminal damage any more - because theoretically my graffiti actually increases the value of property rather than decreasing it. That's his theory, but then my lawyer also believes wearing novelty cartoon ties is a good look.

  Banksy

  Believe, Ties, Cartoon

  Source: www.timeout.com

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• I've been training in Jiu-jitsu for about six years and I'm very fortunate to live in that world. All the fighters hang out and have lunch together just about every day and trade stories. And I've always been fascinated how in the world of Jiu-jitsu in L.A. everybody in the fight world - cops, special forces, bouncers, stuntmen - connected across different lines.

  David Mamet

  Fighting, Years, Lunch

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• Angie, I've seen my mom wrestle two cops to the ground with a taser dart in her neck, and you cry when your shoes pinch. Good luck, Bambi!

  George Lopez

  Funny, Mom, Humor

  "George Lopez". TV Series, www.imdb.com. 2002-2007.

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• Setting goals that have already been achieved is a cop-out.

  Gerry Lindgren

  Goal, Settings, Setting Goals

  Interview with Mick Grant, John Molvar, www.youthrunner.com. January 12, 2011.

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• I just want to keep the diversity and the options open. In terms of what I'm looking for, I'd like to do a lead action role. Whilst I'm still young and I still have the looks, I want to take the helm and be a renegade cop, or something like that. He's got to have a bit of an edge, but that would be nice.

  Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje

  Nice, Diversity, Would Be

  Source: collider.com

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• I'd defend myself. But I don't go around shoving people around; that's not me at all - that's for a cop. I'm not into that type of behavior at all.

  Henry Rollins

  People, Behavior, Type

  Source: oustedproductions.net

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