Policeman Quotes

I have never seen a situation so dismal that a policeman couldn't make it worse.

When I was young and we got caught pinching apples, we got a smack from the local policeman. Today if that happened he would be sued. There is a tendency to punish the victim, not the criminal. If someone broke into my house or my mum's house, I worry that the burglar has more rights than me.

The policeman isn't there to create disorder; the policeman is there to preserve disorder.

When he realized who he'd pulled over, the policeman shook his head in disbelief. He told me of all people I should know better. He gave me a real dressing down, but let me go.

All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.

There is nothing more unaesthetic than a policeman.

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.

I wanted to be a leading man - the black lawyer, the black doctor, the black policeman.

One night I was standing on Third Avenue playing my guitar, when this big Irish policeman came strolling by, and stopped to listen to my singing and playing. When I was done, he politely handed me a ticket for disturbing the peace, while at the same time telling me how much he liked my voice. I wish I still had that ticket.

A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

Publicity is justly commended as a remedy for social and industrial diseases. Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants; electric light the most efficient policeman.

I'm from Chicago. My grandfather was a policeman, and my aunts are married to policemen.

A director must be a policeman, a midwife, a psychoanalyst, a sycophant and a bastard.

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.

A holding company is a thing where you hand an accomplice the goods while the policeman searches you.

The time has come to stop beating our heads against stone walls under the illusion that we have been appointed policeman to the human race.

The interesting thing about Hain is that he's not a very interesting character. He's not fabulously clever. He's not a great policeman. He's not hugely charismatic. I'd describe him as a kind-of Chekhovian character. He's an ordinary bloke, to whom extraordinary things have happened. Which is quite hard to play, I have to say.

Confronted with the choice, the American people would choose the policeman's truncheon over the anarchist's bomb.

I rank myself no higher in the scheme of things than a policeman - whose utility would disappear if there were no criminals.

Experience has taught me never to trust a policeman. Just when you think one's all right, he turns legit.

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.

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.

You'd never have a motorcycle policeman out on the Indian reservation.

I think Morse's thing about being a poor policeman but a good detective is a very good description of him.

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.

Surely the fact that a uniformed police officer is wearing his hair below his collar will make him no less identifiable as a policeman.

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.

When the penalty for a policeman's mistake is to put a criminal back out on the street, then we are hurting America; we are hurting our law-abiding citizens.

What you do as a policeman might be the right thing to do, but it's not entertaining. I left that behind me.

If you don't have a policeman to stop traffic and let you walk across the street like you are somebody, how are you going to know you are somebody?