Zitat des Tages über Polizist / Policeman:
Confronted with the choice, the American people would choose the policeman's truncheon over the anarchist's bomb.
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.
A holding company is a thing where you hand an accomplice the goods while the policeman searches you.
I just fooled around in front of the camera and earned money for it. Every policeman, every soldier, every nurse - they all do more for society. I just rent my face.
We were raised in the black community not to trust the police, and I believe, in the white community, they were raised to actually be a policeman.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Australia - not western in geography, of course, but in every other respect for sure (it certainly doesn't want to be regarded as Asian, God forbid) - loves nothing more than to throw its weight around in South-East Asia by playing peacekeeper, carrying out its role as the United States' regional policeman.
A director must be a policeman, a midwife, a psychoanalyst, a sycophant and a bastard.
It's not easy being the world's policeman. No one thanks you for it.
I'm from Chicago. My grandfather was a policeman, and my aunts are married to policemen.
I rank myself no higher in the scheme of things than a policeman - whose utility would disappear if there were no criminals.
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.
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.
It's hard to describe yourself as a hero - I just like to think of myself as a policeman. People can look to you like that, as a good guy who can help people.
I wanted to be a leading man - the black lawyer, the black doctor, the black policeman.
What is a policeman made of? He, of all men, is once the most needed and the most unwanted. He's a strangely nameless creature who is 'Sir' to his face and 'Fuzz' to his back.
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.
U.S. society doesn't want to play the role of international policeman.
The policeman must be a minister, a social worker, a diplomat, a tough guy, and a gentleman. And, of course, he'd have to be a genius... For he will have to feed a family on a policeman's salary.
I have never seen a situation so dismal that a policeman couldn't make it worse.
I think Morse's thing about being a poor policeman but a good detective is a very good description of him.
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 policeman isn't there to create disorder; the policeman is there to preserve disorder.
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.
There is nothing more unaesthetic than a policeman.
Being a rock & roll star has become as legitimate a career option as being an astronaut or a policeman or a fireman.
When we need a policeman, God bless 'em, they're there. But, if you're in the wrong place at the wrong time, everything seems suspicious.
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 successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.
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.
I don't want to be the policeman of Lebanon. It's not the business of Israel. Israel was not created to serve as a policeman of the region.
Since I was 14, I wanted to make music, but I think I would also have made a good policeman. When I was eight, I wanted to be one so I could tell people off.