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The best car safety device is a rear-view mirror with a cop in it. -- Dudley Moore
If you haven't seen your wife smile at a traffic cop, you haven't seen her smile her prettiest. -- Kin Hubbard
If your neighbors think you're a detective because a cop always brings you home, you might be a redneck. -- Jeff Foxworthy
A recent police study found that you're much more likely to get shot by a fat cop if you run. -- Dennis Miller
Dirty Harry, for example. Clint Eastwood was not a rogue cop. He was a maverick cop, but he was a good guy. -- Charlton Heston
Civilization is a youth with a molotov cocktail in his hand. Culture is the Soviet tank or L.A. cop that guns him down. -- Edward Abbey
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
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
Justice is expensive in America. There are no Free Passes... You might want to remember this, the next time you get careless and blow off a few Parking Tickets. They will come back to haunt you the next time you see a Cop car in your rear-view mirror. -- Hunter S. Thompson
Cop families have guns in their houses. -- Amy Carlson
I'm an L.A. girl who became a tough New York cop. -- Mariska Hargitay
I've never been a cop nor hope to be a cop, thanks. -- Ed McBain
Negotiating with Disney isn't like good cop/bad cop; it's like bad cop/Antichrist. -- Bill Plympton
Know my feelings about traffic laws? Cop didn't see it? I didn't do it. -- George Carlin
Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think... -- Richard Dawkins
I think every actor wants to be an FBI or cop at one point. -- Aaron Eckhart
Cop comes down the street crazy as a loon, he throws us in jail for carrying harpoons. -- Bob Dylan
It wouldn't interest me to try to sound like Cop or something. It would be silly and soul-crushing. -- Michael Gira
We get picked up in these Rolls Royces and get three miles down the highway and five cop cars pull us over. -- Johnny Thunders
Elvis was the only man from Northeast Mississippi who could shake his hips and still be loved by rednecks, cops, and hippies. -- Jimmy Buffett
Arnold Schwarzenegger announced he's running for governor. He's got a great slogan - 'Vote for me, or I'll make 'Kindergarten Cop II -- Craig Kilborn
I would love to do something like 'Beverly Hills Cop'. I'd get to be funny and cool and heroic all in the same breath. -- Ja Rule
I roll with Ladies just as tropic as the chronic in my pocket Cop it, Crush it, Roll it, Spark it, and mix it in with the chocolate -- Lloyd Banks
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
I've been a character actress right from the beginning. I was no more like 'Cinderella' in my real life than I was like the neurotic poet in 'Cop.' -- Lesley Ann Warren
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
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. -- Nora Roberts
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
I think that one of the strengths of Cop Shoot Cop lay in the different, and at times, clashing personalities, Ideally, I want to have both ways of working in my life. -- Jim Coleman
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
[Nikola] Tesla is great! Tesla I actually deal with - I have this thing called the Cop Stopper that deals with Tesla's technology. It's like a PokÃ©mon ball and you push the button. -- Kellan Lutz
Anybody see 'Cop Land'? I went to go see it, but I got stoned in the parking lot. And then on the way in, I read the marquee, and I got paranoid and went home. -- Arj Barker
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
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
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
Never quit. It is the easiest cop-out in the world. Set a goal and don't quit until you attain it. When you do attain it, set another goal, and don't quit until you reach it. Never quit. -- Bear Bryant
Cop families have guns in their houses. It's a bigger question for mothers. When is the right time to introduce to your children the things that could hurt them? But not having the knowledge could hurt them. -- Amy Carlson
First, I'm trying to edit down about 7 hours of material which I made prior to the Cop days and find some way to get it out. This stuff is pretty out there, mostly sonic collages and tape manipulations. -- Jim Coleman
Star Trek wouldn't die. There were a whole lot of young people who were touched by the thought process of science fiction. If you watched a cop show, there wasn't anything that was going to stimulate your mind. -- Gary Lockwood
I get it,' said the prisoner. 'Good Cop, Bad Cop, eh?'If you like.' said Vimes. 'But we're a bit short staffed here, so if I give you a cigarette would you mind kicking yourself in the teeth? -- Terry Pratchett
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
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
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
I was such a huge Bruce Willis fan because of all the Die Hards and Arnold Schwarzenegger was like 'the guy.' Kindergarten Cop was filmed in my home state and I was like, "He's awesome! Now he gets his hair cut next to me, it's fantastic. " -- Katee Sackhoff
I remember being at the premiere of 'Beverly Hills Cop II' and the tremendous reaction from the crowd outside, then going to a party at a hotel afterwards where the speakers were blasting 'Shakedown,' a song from the movie. That felt like a show biz moment to me. -- Gilbert Gottfried
I definitely support cop acting more than cops, but all of them ain't bad, just some of them. -- Ice Cube
I think where men are credited for being strong, women are divas. I just think it's such a cop out. -- Natalie Imbruglia
I like strong women. I think a lot of women relate to strong characters, and a cop is still a strong character. -- Ally Walker
In my career, I have played a gangster, an ex cop, a journalist and a film director. Yet, the label of a serial kisser refuses to leave me. -- Emraan Hashmi
An honest cop still can't find a place to go and complain without fear of recrimination. The blue wall will always be there because the system supports it. -- Frank Serpico
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
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
Persistence and determination are incredibly important. But sometimes you need to analyze the situation and understand when you're wrong. You need to be able to cop to being wrong, learn to change, and continue to grow as a human being. -- Sasha Grey
On 'The Messenger,' just imagining playing the part of a soldier in that movie was kind of hard for me. And in 'Rampart,' the idea of playing a cop was even harder. It was hard to imagine myself as a cop. -- Woody Harrelson
I felt like hip-hop was my music, it was like my outsider music... but then my mom started answering our phone, 'Yo, what's up.' She was hearing me talk to my friends. I was like, 'No, mom, don't cop the hip-hop talk.' -- Jenny Lewis
I was familiar with that and 'Rio Bravo.' 'Rio Bravo' was what John Carpenter did, that brilliant move of taking a western and turning it into an urban flick. And from there you got, you know, all the cop genre movies of the time. -- John Leguizamo
Maybe it's stress or anger or adrenaline or disillusionment or a bullying nature or simple fear of getting killed themselves, but there is a problem if a cop cannot tell the difference between a menacing gangster and the far more common person they encounter whose life is a little frayed and messy. -- David Horsey
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
To play a cop's wife - there's so much in that world, the wives or partners of anyone who is a first responder - it's not an easy job. It's not an easy way to live, to say goodbye to someone in the morning and not know what's going to happen throughout the day. -- Amy Carlson
Coming up in the Bay Area and being African American in a city that has a history of complex issues of violent crime, interaction with the police is always intense. That's something you have to learn. My mom taught me at a young age that if ever a cop stops you, you put your hands up and freeze - don't move. -- Ryan Coogler
I'm not a model; hence I don't see the reason to have a six-pack abs. I can pull off a tough and rugged look of a cop in 'Dhoom' series without taking my shirt off. Cops don't have to move around without a shirt to flaunt their machismo. What makes the character of a cop stand out is his attitude and not his six-pack abs. -- Abhishek Bachchan
I've always thought live albums were cop-outs. -- David Coverdale
You're a cop. I need a doughnut. -- Jim Butcher
I am not anti-cop, I am pro-cop. -- Nancy Grace
G.I. humor is similar to cop humor. -- Nelson DeMille
I'm the furthest thing away from a cop. -- Boyd Holbrook
I've never played anybody like a cop before. -- Leelee Sobieski
I waver between a cop-out agnostic and principled atheism -- Dan Savage
Vadalism: beautiful as a rock in a cop's face. -- Kurt Cobain
The problem is not cop killers...it's killer cops. -- Tom Morello
I carry a gun cause a cop is too heavy. -- John Steinbeck
Setting goals that have already been achieved is a cop-out. -- Gerry Lindgren
Bisexuality is not so much a cop-out as a fearful compromise. -- Jill Johnston
You can't separate the two, being a parent, being a cop. -- Raymond Kelly
Well, for one thing, you know my dad was a cop. -- Edward Burns
Wherever there's a cop beatin' up a guy, I'll be there. -- John Steinbeck
Graffiti is beautiful; like a brick in the face of a cop. -- Hunter S. Thompson
Drop them or let them drop you. I chose droppin' that cop. -- Tupac Shakur
I've always had a desire to play a cop or FBI agent. -- Tricia Helfer
Few people understand the psychology of dealing with a highway traffic cop. -- Hunter S. Thompson
I'm super-obsessed with law enforcement. I'm what you'd call a 'cop fan. -- Pauley Perrette
'The system made me do it' is the perfect cop-out for today's managers. -- Pankaj Ghemawat
An anarchist is someone who doesn't need a cop to make him behave. -- Ammon Hennacy
Gomez is a by-the-book cop. He's the only character not to break bad. -- Steven Michael Quezada
Anybody who thinks talk is cheap has never argued with a traffic cop. -- Henny Youngman
When your dad's a cop, calling 911 is really just like calling Dad at work. -- Ryan Reynolds
Do you like being a cop?""I love it, when it doesn't suck, sir. -- Edward Conlon
I took a learjet to cop some lipstick Yeah Imma risk it I'm optimistic -- Nicki Minaj
The cop wanted to know what was in the bag. I said, Another cop. -- Jarod Kintz
There's a reason there are 50,000 cop shows and firefighter shows: Watching them is cool. -- Alec Berg
I'd love to do a cop film in America. That's a genre I absolutely adore. -- Danny Boyle
How'd it go with Leesha?" "It was great! We were bad cop and bad cop! -- Cinda Williams Chima
With all these great (guitar teachers) around here, don't cop their licks, COP THEIR ATTITUDE. -- Leo Kottke
I don't watch cop movies much. I TiVo shows. I watch every Larry David show. -- Raymond Kelly
If you believe that I'm a cop killer, you believe David Bowie is an astronaut. -- Ice T
If you believe that I'm a cop killer, you believe David Bowie is an astronaut. -- Ice T
A really good uniformed cop has tremendous people skills, and they learn how to read people. -- Titus Welliver
I'm just a journalist. I shine a mirror to the culture. I give the cop-out answer. -- Mark Leibovich
The last thing a real cop wants to do is write a ticket. That's the truth. -- Manny Montana
I think it's a cop-out to say I'm a Christian but I don't ever do anything . . . -- Joel Osteen
A real cop fights real crime. A vice cop's only job is to ruin the party. -- Doug Stanhope
I don't believe in reincarnation. That's a cop-out, I know. I don't really want to be reincarnated. -- Rod Serling
I'm LEP. A captain. No rent-a-cop gnome is going to stand in the way of my orders. -- Eoin Colfer
If you're going to hit a car, try to be sure that it's not a cop car -- Judy Gold
Strictly cop and go's until we laid in the Galapagos Eating tacos, higher than an opera note -- Action Bronson
I don't think there's anything quite as dashing as a cop on horseback. To me it's wonderful. -- Mary Tyler Moore
I would have played street cop number three if it meant getting to work with Chris Nolan. -- Anne Hathaway
Society had a crime problem. It hired cops to attack crime. Now society has a cop problem. -- Tom Robbins
If Anderson was the good cop, and Blake was the bad cop, Jamaal was the complete psycho cop. -- Jenna Black
Any street cop knows you will be sued or involved in some type of litigation throughout your career. -- Mark Fuhrman
I love cop shows and crime books and thrillers, and before I die I'm gonna play a cop. -- Amy Sedaris
Being a Berlin cop in 1942 was a little like putting down mousetraps in a cage full of tigers. -- Philip Kerr
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
...Jake, a homosexual cop buried so deep in the closet he didn't know where to look for himself. -- Josh Lanyon
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
A chef who doesn't wash his hands is like a cop who steals. It's a cry for help. -- Jerry Seinfeld
I would like one day to play an FBI cop, just so I can hold the gun and shoot. -- Shanola Hampton
No, the seventies was a totally different sensibility and that allowed us to break new ground as a cop show. -- Paul Michael Glaser
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
I'm still picking pockets--I just do it as legally as I can. Being married to a cop limits certain activities. -- Nora Roberts

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