Top 100 Quotes About Cop
#1. You gotta love the cops. They start the night ready to shoot someone's eyes off and at the same time ready to carry a child with a grandmother's tenderness. Ready to shatter and ready to soothe at the touch of a trigger, a good cop is an amazing animal.
Marc Parent
#2. The beautiful thing about driving was that it stole just enough of his attention - car parked on the side, maybe a cop, slow to speed limit, time to pass this sixteen-wheeler, turn signal, check rearview, crane neck to check blind spot and yes, okay, left lane.
John Green
#4. I'll tell you what I really enjoy. We all go to the movies, we all watch television, we know what they're about, how they work. When the main character is a cop or a spy, it's very exciting, but I also very much enjoy when the main characters are nobodies - a trucker.
Nathan Fillion
#5. A chef who doesn't wash his hands is like a cop who steals. It's a cry for help.
Jerry Seinfeld
#6. Long time ago, I was going to be a New York cop, then got involved with this girl who was into acting, then got bit by the acting bug myself.
Erik Estrada
#7. New York cops are very specific in terms of the way they talk and the way they handle themselves. All these cliches that, as an Englishman, I thought were from a bygone era or were a bit of poetic license with cop shows - the more you hang out with them, the more you realize how real that jargon is.
Theo James
#8. I never went through a period were I wanted to be a doctor, a cop or even a rock star. All I wanted to do was play short stop for the Yankees from the time I was about 5. Then I turned 15 and realized how silly that was and just gave up on it.
Artie Lange
#9. I'm just a journalist. I shine a mirror to the culture. I give the cop-out answer.
Mark Leibovich
#10. 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
#11. Morning, ma'am. I'm looking for Tommy Mason. Is he around?" Polite and professional, that was Senior Agent Broussard.
"Lord, what's that no-good sonofabitch done now? Wait, you ain't a cop; you're a game warden. "What'd he do, run over a fish?
Susannah Sandlin
#12. Gloucestershire police must be the envy of the human rights-abusing cop world. From Turkey to Indonesia they will say, 'Kidnapping peace protestors! How did they get away with that one?'
Mark Thomas
#13. The problem is not cop killers ... it's killer cops.
Tom Morello
#14. Cop-out excuses and catch-phrase dismissals can only work so long before the holes in the religious argument cannot be ignored any longer.
Steve Dustcircle
#15. If I call him back here," Cooper whispered in her ear, "will you crawl up my body again?
Jill Shalvis
#16. Whenever I've had to make a major decision as a doctor, cop or for a company I've worked for, I ask myself: What is the value proposition here? Will my decision bring added value to the population I have the privilege to serve?
Richard Carmona
#17. Cops today are nothing but an armed tax collector
Frank Serpico
#18. If you're driving, and a cop is behind you, you automatically think they're going to pull you over, but cops have so much more going on than to think about pulling you over. The last thing a real cop wants to do is write a ticket. That's the truth.
Manny Montana
#19. 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
#20. 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
#21. When I did 'Bird,' it was a surprise to some people, first because I wasn't in it and second because most of the films I'd been doing were cop movies or westerns or adventure films, so to be doing one about Charlie Parker, who was a great influence on American music, was a great thrill for me.
Clint Eastwood
#22. I waver between a cop-out agnostic and principled atheism
Dan Savage
#23. 'Pride' is my first film with a happy ending. Before, I naively thought they were a cop-out, but now I've come to believe that happy endings and wish fulfilment are an incredibly important part of our cultural life.
Joe Wright
#24. You were a cop?" Sarah remarked, surprised. She couldn't imagine this elegant woman posted on duty anywhere. Well, Lord and Taylor, maybe.
Martha Reed
#25. 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
#27. The perfectly measured burr of a dispassionate detective had suddenly changed into the explosive boom of a take-no-shit street cop.
Suffice it to say, I froze.
Cleo Coyle
#28. A good cop, a smart cop, closes cases and locks up the bad guys.
J.D. Robb
#29. He smiled. "I bet the paper ran something about you once your hiring was confirmed. A new cop is big news in a small town. People were probably admonished to make you feel at home."
She shook her head with some amusement. "I would have felt more at home if they shot at me,.
Dana Marton
#30. He held up his hand, and in it was ...
Oh, God.
The neon-pink vibrator, glowing in the dark now. It was following her, stalking her, all the way down the yellow brick road to hell.
Jill Shalvis
#31. I can remember when anything further downtown New York than Canal Street was risky and the whole area still looked like a '70s cop movie location; when the original loft-owners were more dash-than-cash, artistic types.
Peter York
#32. It would be nice to report she lived happily ever after till the end of her days. But such cheap, cop-out one-liners belong to other uncomplicated fairy tales.
Jennifer Silverwood
#33. If you believe that I'm a cop killer, you believe David Bowie is an astronaut.
Ice-T
#34. Three weeks hadn't changed Cop Central. The coffee was still poisonous, the noise abominable, and the view out of her stingy window was still miserable.
She was thrilled to be back.
J.D. Robb
#36. Where I'm from the dopeboys is the rockstars, but they can't cop cars without seeing cop cars. I guess they want us all behind bars. I know it.
Kanye West
#37. When I watch cop shows, I really enjoy them because you can really follow the story and get involved, and the characters are always really interesting.
Vicky McClure
#38. Cop shows are by definition melodramatic; they're larger than life. They create very stark contrasts and conflicts emotionally. They're provocative, assuming they grapple with - to the extent that cop shows are mirrors of the culture.
Steven Bochco
#39. Do you like being a cop?"
"I love it, when it doesn't suck, sir.
Edward Conlon
#40. I hate that," I said. "It's like there's no human beings in the chain of responsibility, just things-that-happen. It's the ultimate cop-out. The system did it. The company did it. The government did it. What about the person who pulls the trigger?
Cory Doctorow
#41. Being a regular in a television series, for me - if I wanted to be a cop, I woulda went to cop school. If I wanted to be a doctor, I would've gone to medical school. You get trapped in your normal episodic television shows, basically doing the same thing.
Michael Hogan
#42. I threw in the obligatory "if it be Your will" at the end. That tagline may sound spiritual, but it was less a submission to God's will and more a profession of doubt. If you aren't careful, the will of God can become a cop-out if things don't turn out the way you want.
Mark Batterson
#43. There is no tougher job in America than being a cop on the beat in a major city in this country, big and brawling.
Mark Shields
#44. 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
#45. In motherhood, where seemingly opposite realities can be simultaneously true, the role of nurturer invariably conflicts with the role of socializer. When trouble came as it surely must, was I the good cop who understood, the bad cop who terrorized, or both?
Mary Blakely
#46. I'm not a fan of justifying bad behavior or justifying why people are the way they are. I think that's a cop out. I don't have a lot of empathy for that.
Charlize Theron
#47. As a cop, I dealt with every kind of bum and criminal. They all have more integrity than some Hollywood people.
Joseph Wambaugh
#48. Cos a cop asking a guy for a discount on his crack, that's screwed up.
Sign of the goddamn apocalypse is what it is.
Warren Ellis
#49. 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
#50. I'm not a cop. I'm just a tattoo artist. I'm just a guy who used to be in love with a girl. I'm just a fool who's been fooled too many times before. I'm just a man who's finally getting his revenge.
Karina Halle
#52. The TSA's airport body scanners have been shown to be so ineffective, the Homeland Security chairman suggested using traditional metal detectors. While LaGuardia will continue to just have a scarecrow dressed as a cop.
Jimmy Fallon
#53. In the beginning Remo is a very New York street cop who changes and is changed as he moves along.
Fred Ward
#54. The very first time I got to drive by myself, I took a bunch of my friends to school and was caught by a motorcycle cop going 90 miles an hour on a back street.
Cheech Marin
#55. One fine day, in the middle of the night, two dead boys got up to fight. Back to back they faced each other. They pulled out their swords and shot one another. One deaf cop, on the beat heard the noise, and came and shot the two dead boys.
Holly Black
#56. If you're playing a cop in a modern film, you don't have to walk with your spine straight up and bow before a fight. There's a lot of free form of expressing yourself as an actor.
Donnie Yen
#57. Avoid being seized by the police. The cops are not your friends. Don't tell them anything.
Hunter S. Thompson
#59. Her eyes were clear; she hadn't been crying. She was a cop's wife first, a woman second; she wouldn't give in to tears as long as Wyatt was fighting for his life because she was fighting with him in spirit.
Dean Koontz
#60. 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
#61. And eat lots of mints, it fools the cops.
Greg Proops
#62. 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
#63. Great. First the anonymous call. Now letters. Body parts all over town. It was like a scavenger hunt for psychos. Running after clues with a half-deranged, serial-killer-obsessed, recovering-addict cop was not a good idea. Then again ...
Chelsea Cain
#64. I'm LEP. A captain. No rent-a-cop gnome is going to stand in the way of my orders.
Eoin Colfer
#65. I never write metropolis for seven cents because I can get the same price for city. I never write policeman because I can get the same money for cop.
Mark Twain
#66. I hate cops. You're either a cop or a reporter. And I hate cops and newspapermen.
James Kaplan
#67. Strictly cop and go's until we laid in the Galapagos
Eating tacos, higher than an opera note
Action Bronson
#68. Message to all rioters: put down your brick, put away the spray paint, and leave the cop cars alone; you're acting like soccer fans! It's embarrassing.
Jim Rome
#69. I love crime procedurals. I always have. I love cop shows.
Jonathan Nolan
#70. 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
#71. The United States always seems to have a way of playing the international cop of the world.
Jason Medina
#72. They're all the same
the cop, the criminal, the defense, the prosecutor
they all share a fundamental belief in the malleability of truth
Louise Erdrich
#73. In comedy, I hate that cop-out where you say, "Just kidding." I know you're just kidding. Don't insult my intelligence by spelling it out for me that much.
Anthony Jeselnik
#74. Pigpen slides into the man's space and goes nose to nose. To the cop's credit, he doesn't flinch.
Katie McGarry
#75. When I was a kid watching "The Blues Brothers," I could not think of a better thing than watching 300 cop cars crash into each other.
Will Forte
#76. I would like one day to play an FBI cop, just so I can hold the gun and shoot.
Shanola Hampton
#77. I'm a cop, and cops talk. They called me the day he did it, but did you ever hear me say anything about it? I played ball, because that's how I am. I'm true.
Shaquille O'Neal
#78. There's a reason there are 50,000 cop shows and firefighter shows: Watching them is cool.
Alec Berg
#79. You are who you are. I know you. You believe that?
"Yea but
"
"You're Eve Dallas. You're the love of my life. My heart and Soul. You're a cop, mind and bone. You're a woman of strength and resilience. Stubborn, hardheaded, occassionally mean as a badger, and more generous that you'll admit.
J.D. Robb
#80. broke a few speed laws, but if a cop doesn't see you, is it really illegal? That is the million-dollar question.
Alycia Taylor
#81. Apparently, an undocumented side effect of dope is a gross overestimation of one's own intelligence. Dopers become convinced they've hidden their stash so well a cop won't find it. They're always wrong.
Alafair Burke
#82. My grandfather was a cop in Long Island. I often try to draw on things that I've heard about him.
Yancy Butler
#83. No groom.
No electricity.
Stuck in a house with a naked guy.
Screwed.
Jill Shalvis
#84. I don't believe in depression. There's no such thing. It's an invention. It's bullshit, it's a cop out.
John Waters
#85. It doesn't matter if a character is a lawyer, a cop or a geography teacher. If there's a story in there, where the character has a passion and a fire in his belly and story to tell, then it's enough for an actor to get excited about.
Clive Standen
#86. 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
#87. I hope to do multiple characters throughout my life that are separate from me. I think it's a cop-out if you play yourself in everything.
Kat Graham
#88. One time a cop pulled me over for running a stop sign. He said, "Didn't you see the stop sign?" I said, "Yeah, but I don't believe everything I read"
Steven Wright
#89. John pointed at me to get my attention. He circled his finger in the air to tell me to wrap it up, then pointed to his cop car. I made a series of baseball catcher's signs.
Jennifer Echols
#90. In a flash, he was on his feet, running towards Michaels. But the hotshot cop had fired three perfect shots, strategically hitting both rear tires and taking out the back window. A sniper. The truck swerved in the street and hit the guardrail hard. Judge
A.E. Via
#91. Drop them or let them drop you. I chose droppin' that cop.
Tupac Shakur
#92. It's the ratings, stupid, don't you know? They've got us putting more fuzz and wuzz on the air, cop-show stuff.
Dan Rather
#93. I find it depressing that people think you have to be on drugs to watch [my stuff], that's a cop out, use your brain, use your imagination.
Noel Fielding
#94. 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
#95. Doubt is to me the handmaiden to faith, its cop, the one that keeps faith straight. To doubt is an indication of freedom and a guard against fanaticism.
Nora Gallagher
#96. I think my wife and my kids are incredibly good to allow me to stay in public life given that they have to cop a whole lot of collateral attention that, being human, they'd rather not get.
Tony Abbott
#97. One more thing."
"What."
"I think we're dating now." As V barked out a laugh, the cop shrugged. "Come on ... I got you naked. You wore a damn corset. And don't get me started about the sponge bath afterward."
"Fucker."
"To the end.
J.R. Ward
#98. It's a tribal state, and it always will be. Whether we like it or not, whenever we withdraw from Afghanistan, whether it's now or years from now, we'll have an incendiary situation. Should we stay and play traffic cop? I don't think that serves our strategic interests.
Jon Huntsman Jr.
#99. Please don't let it be another cop. I'm outta bail money. Wait a minute ... I could sell you on eBay and make a killing. (Mark)
Not in my current condition. You'd have to sell Caleb or Madaug. I'm sure there's someone willing to buy two perfectly good white boys. (Nick)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#100. I would have played street cop number three if it meant getting to work with Chris Nolan.
Anne Hathaway
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