Best 153 quotes in «cop quotes» category

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.

I'm still picking pockets--I just do it as legally as I can. Being married to a cop limits certain activities.

I'm sure I took some licks at the system, and at trials and lawyers in general. I've seen enough of them for so many years both as a cop and a defendant in defamation cases.

I'm super-obsessed with law enforcement. I'm what you'd call a 'cop fan.

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.

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

I never worried about becoming typecast. People have said that to me, but I never worried about it. As long as the part is three dimensional, I'm okay with it, whether the role is to play the heavy, the cop.

It's a great feeling to know that 100 cops want to stop you doing something and they can't.

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.

In the domain of cops and robbers, an interdiction serves to structure a black market and a shadow economy.

In the middle of the night, when you're ambiguously ethnic, like me, when you're brown, beige, mauve, siena, one of those lighter browns in the Crayola box. You have to be careful of the cops and robbers, because nobody's quite sure what you are, but everybody has assumptions.

It is time to put more cops on the beat and remove our most violent repeat offenders from our neighborhood streets.

I took a learjet to cop some lipstick Yeah Imma risk it I'm optimistic

It really bothers me when some people say that all cops are racist. Of course that's not true. Most of you are just [expletive] to everybody.

It's a lot of crooked cops out there. They manipulate the system.

It's always fun to play cops and robbers.

I've always been fascinated by Baretta and Donny Brasco, and other undercover cops in movies.

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.

I've always had a desire to play a cop or FBI agent.

I’ve made upwards of a million bucks in the cops and robbers business.

I've never been a cop hater. You know, when I was breaking the law, the cops were the opponent. I just thought I could outsmart them.

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

I waver between a cop-out agnostic and principled atheism

I've only played gangsters and cops, and I always have to be serious.

I would have to commit a crime and have cops chase me. That would be the only way to get me to jog five miles.

I would have played street cop number three if it meant getting to work with Chris Nolan.

Karma is not a cop-out. The esoteric meaning of karma is that you are who you are, because of what you have done and who you have been.

I would like to fire every cop in America and start from scratch. We don't need as many of them, and the whole model of policing is completely off the rails. For the most part, the police are engaged in very little protection of the public. That's probably 5 percent of what they do. The rest of it is writing tickets.

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.

Kristin Gwynne has been writing some great stuff about the sexually violent element of "stop-and-frisk." This isn't just "turn out your pockets." This is young people being groped. That form of power - using sexuality for power and control - seems pretty straightforward to me. When are we going to just say that the cops are the enemy here?

Know my feelings about traffic laws? Cop didn't see it? I didn't do it.

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.

[Mel Gibson] played this kind of sadistic motorcycle cop. He was terrific. And he had this great sense of visual comedy.

Morelli beeped his truck unlocked. “If you’re looking for your rent-a-cop, I told Ranger you’d be with me this morning.” “Did he make you take a blood oath that you’d protect me?” “He asked me if I had adequate health insurance.

My rhymes are like shot clocks, interstate cops and blood clots, my point is your flow gets stopped.

Murder is such a charged word. You know how some people fixate and won't let things go? They're called cops.

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.

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.

No cop was ever born who wasn't a sucker for a finely-executed high-speed Controlled Drift all the way around one of those clover-leaf freeway interchanges.

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.

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.

See you told me I would lose but I won. I might cop a million Jimmy Choos just for fun.

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.

...Right now there's a pair of bad cops on their way out here to shoot me." "You don't know that." "Yeah, you're right," Stranahan said. "They're probably just collecting Toys for Tots. Now go.

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

She shook her head slowly. “I don’t believe you. You can’t be a cop.” “Not a cop.” “Federal agent?” “FBI.” “Even more unlikely.” “J. Edgar rolls over in his grave every day, but that’s the way it is.

Society had a crime problem. It hired cops to attack crime. Now society has a cop problem.

The Nixon administration kept a nasty eye on our show... Cops would come by - often just in time to see the act they wanted to see.

Strictly cop and go's until we laid in the Galapagos Eating tacos, higher than an opera note

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.