Captain Dudley Smith: Hold up your badge, so they'll know you're a policeman.
Elisabeth Winkler, Beckert's landlady: Could you speak louder please, I'm a bit hard of hearing. Policeman: As if I couldn't tell.
At eight, I made a commitment to poetry. Until then, I thought I'd be a policeman. But I went a whole night without sleeping, and the next day the world had changed. It needed a different language.
Policeman: I'm not that much older than you, so don't call me pops or you'll find yoursef polishin' my boots with your tongue!
A policeman, as you discover, has to put up with a hell of a lot of abuse. A man in any other line of work would nail a guy who laid that kind of abuse on him. I know I would.
They think something's gone wrong, but in Don't Look Now, for instance, one scene was made by a mistake. It's the scene where Donald Sutherland goes to look for the policeman who's investigating the two women.
Folks who talk about no violence are always the ones who are first to call a policeman and usually they are sure there is one handy.
POLICEMAN. Good luck. (She finds it easiest just to nod in reply) I wish I was a Prince.
My father...was a man who understood all dogs thoroughly and treated them like human beings.
Surely the fact that a uniformed police officer is wearing his hair below his collar will make him no less identifiable as a policeman.
I hope it will be set in California. In a way, I made a mistake, because a New Jersey policeman can't operate that way in New York. But in California, he can move between different counties.
Kids are always asked, What are you going to be when you grow up? I needed an answer. So instead of saying, a fireman, or a policeman, I said, a reporter.
Policeman in Arizona house: What did the pyjamas look like? Nathan Arizona Sr.: I don't know - they were jammies! They had Yodas 'n' shit on 'em!
Inspector Lestrade: You know, in another life, you'd have made an excellent criminal. Sherlock Holmes: Yes, and you, sir, an excellent policeman.
When I was younger I was always big; I was a fat boy at school. I had an early growth spurt, and when I went to secondary school I was tall enough to be a policeman.
It still would be years before I understood the seriousness of my change of view. Much later, I recognized it in "Revolution," the essay of Polish journalist Ryszard Kapuscinski, who describes the moment when a man on the edge of a crowd looks back d...
I think that although we say we don't want to be the policeman of the world and et cetera, when 911 is dialed, it's the United States that has to answer the call.
We met in Cracker. I played a maniac fan who murders a policeman and she did my makeup. I thought anyone interested in me looking like that must have genuinely liked me.
As international support for Obama's decision to attack Syria has collapsed, along with the credibility of government claims, the administration has fallen back on a standard pretext for war crimes when all else fails: the credibility of the threats ...
I've always liked police-blotter kind of writing, or the writing of a policeman, right to the point and hardboiled. That's how I see at least the prose elements of scriptwriting.
So there's no such thing as one too many this, one too many that. I remember, you're reminding me of early in my career, somebody said to me: why are you taking so many roles as a policeman.
