It is a different genre - a show about something other than doctors, lawyers and cops. Teachers are something completely different. I think it makes for very interesting television.
Elvis was the only man from Northeast Mississippi who could shake his hips and still be loved by rednecks, cops, and hippies.
Civilization is a youth with a molotov cocktail in his hand. Culture is the Soviet tank or L.A. cop that guns him down.
We get picked up in these Rolls Royces and get three miles down the highway and five cop cars pull us over.
I rode with four street-clothes cops in the East Village. I spent six weeks riding with them every day - in street clothes, with a vest underneath.
Every one of my books is written from the viewpoint of cops, with the exception of my book Killer on the Road, which is written from the viewpoint of a serial killer.
I was born here in the city, born in the Bronx. Son of a cop. One grandfather was a taxi driver; the other was a firefighter. New York is in my DNA.
Max Cherry: You know, a good cop will never let you know he knows you're full of shit.
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.
People want a cop-out, listen I'm a realist and I talk about motivation, talk about all the things it takes to be greater or are important to win and people want to use excuses all the time.
Vincent: Get with it. Millions of galaxies of hundreds of millions of stars, in a speck on one in a blink. That's us, lost in space. The cop, you, me... Who notices?
Nick Fury: [sees cops staring at him] Wanna see my lease?
Sonny: [to a cop with his gun drawn] You see that? [points his finger like a gun] Sonny: Put it in your holster!
Fitzy: She didn't notice us, she must be a cop. Delahunt: Yeah, she's probably the fucking Police Commissioner.
Will: I didn't ask for this. Sean: No, you were born with it. So don't cop out behind "I didn't ask for this".
Keung: Remember this, if you see someone doing something but at the same time watching you... then he is a cop.
Lau Kin Ming: [raising his hands to police officers] I'm a cop.
Bad Cop: You were found at the construction site convulsing with a strange piece. Emmet: That's disgusting!
Max Rockatansky: Once, I was a cop. A road warrior, searching for a righteous cause.
Captain Richard O'Malley: Look, kid, we can't always save the day. All right? We're just cops. Janitors.
Leonard Smalls: You want to find an outlaw, hire an outlaw. You want to find a Dunkin' Donuts, call a cop.
