The notion of being on a cop show was appealing, just because it's one of those tick boxes in a career.

- Dallas Roberts

So, through playing with Cop I realized that there is a potentially interested audience out in the world.

- Jim Coleman

I definitely support cop acting more than cops, but all of them ain't bad, just some of them.

- Ice Cube

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.

- Henry Rollins

You have to always try to think about them like real people first, and not just heroes. They have to be real characters. As people do more and more superhero stuff, the characters are what distinguish it, just like in cop shows.

- Greg Berlanti

When Joseph Wambaugh writes about the LAPD, you listen because you know he knows the scene. Lots of people write cop novels, but they don't have that authenticity.

- Gregory Benford

I've played a lot of cops. In fact, my father was a cop.

- Erik King

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

- Evan Hunter

I wanted to be a New York City cop before I became an actor.

- Erik Estrada

Well, for one thing, you know my dad was a cop.

- Edward Burns

I was an infantry Marine, and there are only so many things you can do when you get out of the military that you can apply your job to. Either a janitor or a cop. I tried to do both of those things because what else are you going to do?

- Adam Driver

I'm a cop at heart - it's in my blood.

- David A. Clarke, Jr.

I'd love to do a cop film in America. That's a genre I absolutely adore.

- Danny Boyle

I like the yin-yang of a cop's life, where he's part fascist and part saint. That's where the good dramas are.

- Clark Johnson

I never saw myself as being a cop on TV. I come from theatre, and I always go back every couple of years.

- Ciaran Hinds

I never saw myself as being a cop on TV.

- Ciaran Hinds

Depending on the show, I've played a cop, a criminal, or a victim. So there's a range.

- Brent Sexton

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

Cop families have guns in their houses.

- Amy Carlson

I think every actor wants to be an FBI or cop at one point.

- Aaron Eckhart