Telling everyone I wanted to go into forensic anthropology was my form of rebellion.

- Bryce Dallas Howard

I don't necessarily have friends who are forensic scientists, but I have tons of friends who are cops.

- Carmine Giovinazzo

There are corporate private investigators, companies doing very forensic background checks on people. They buy data, they get their own data... They don't want their industry publicised.

- Heather Brooke

All work and no play make any forensic pathologist a dull boy.

- Hill Harper

The long, forensic interview really matters.

- Jonathan Dimbleby

Certainly going back to Sherlock Holmes we have a tradition of forensic science featured in detective stories.

- Jeffery Deaver

I think if I weren't so squeamish, I would have been some sort of forensic analyst. And I can't do anything with a microscope, because then I start thinking about the world of germs around us.

- Octavia Spencer

I didn't invent forensic science and medicine. I just was one of the first people to recognize how interesting it is.

- Patricia Cornwell

I remember when I was 12, talking with my friends about what we wanted to do with our lives, astronauts, forensic detectives, all these different jobs. And the only thing I could think was an actor.

- Tony Revolori

The thing is that quite a few of my books have ended up as they are because of conversations I've had over the years with forensic scientists.

- Val McDermid