Emily Meade Quotes

I have friends that tease me about 'Without a Trace;' they say, 'You're really good at saying, 'Have you seen this person?'

I've always felt if you followed a real private detective around, it would be boring.

In the same way he's fascinated by crosswords, the puzzle of solving the murder is what drives him on.

I often keep my eyes open for bodies. I do. Ever since I was a kid. I think I read too many 'Nancy Drew' books.

I read a lot of 'Nancy Drew' books as a kid and considered myself a bit of an amateur detective.

I play a detective, very close to myself actually.

I used to work as a private detective years and years ago.

If you're reading a mystery novel, you kind of want the character to solve the crime instead of completely bumble their way through it.

I'm very good at solving mysteries.

Midsomer' is a throwback to the old detective tradition, in which everything happens in the head of one man. Everything depends on his intuition and experience.

I think there's part of me that's longing to play a Sherlock Holmes or sort of a House character, like a real detective. Like a real, moody detective. Like a real, sarcastic, mentally ill detective. I think it would be really fun to do something like that.

He just waited until I stopped talking and said, 'Jesus, kid, you're almost a detective. All you need now is a gun, a gut, and three ex-wives. So what's your theory?

Every man at the bottom of his heart believes that he is a born detective.

To be a good researcher is to be a good detective, and I enjoy ferreting out tidbits of information. For a diary book like 'A Coal Miner's Bride,' newspapers come in handy for small everyday details such as weather reports.

But the first published thing I did was a detective story, detective novel, and I did that on my own.

Forensics I've always found absolutely fascinating. Anything to do with clues. And checking things out and solving.

It means working harder to do the research but I don't really mind - I don't think I have what it takes to chase criminals through back alleys and wade through blood at crime scenes.

If you think about it, the historian's task is like that of the detective.

'Castle' isn't really affected emotionally by murder. He's thrilled about, 'Oh, my God, I wonder how this happened?'

You know the thing that interests me about 'Unsolved Mysteries?' It's because there are people out there, people who know something, who may have the one final clue.

My college senior thesis was going to be on the American private investigator.

The detective genre is not easy because you've got to get to a conclusion that is unexpected.

I think, very often, we're addicted to procedurals, those good guy/bad guy shows, and the 'problem' with procedurals is they all follow the same formula: The bad guy does his thing, the good guy goes after him, and in most cases, the good guy figures out who did it and catches him.

I've always wanted to play a hard-boiled gumshoe, as they say.

When I was younger, I watched all the detective shows.