Dylan McDermott Quotes

I concluded that infiltration of the Klan was the only way to get evidence that would stand up in court. There was no one else around to do it.

I was Donnie Brasco, the Mafia guy, in character. But in my head, I was a special agent. I never lost sight of who I was or why I was there.

I'm the number-one fan of gangster movies.

Drug people are the very vermin of humanity.... Occasionally we must adopt their dress and tactics.

There are more FBI undercover agents in the ranks of the Communist Party than there were actual communists.

I spent a whole career infiltrating places.

When I became a cadet, I immediately decided I wanted to be an undercover cop because I don't like uniforms.

I love so many different genres. I love crime films - and unusual coming-of-age pieces.

Police can only act on intelligence.

Organized crime is the dirty side of the sharp dollar.

Our country has been overtaken by murderous thugs... gangsters who lust after fortunes and power.

Some of your worst gangsters are guys who were very low-key.

We need spies that look like their targets, CIA officers who speak the dialects terrorists use, and FBI agents who can speak to Muslim women who might be intimidated by men.

'The Godfather' was the glorification of a bunch of bums who never existed.

Bookmaking is the most menacing racket in the entire field of organized crime.

The lifeblood of organized crime is gambling, and although I have no scruples about a couple of fellows making a wager, the fact of the matter is that organized crime thrives on illicit income from gambling.

The veil deprives women of the possibility of earning their livelihood, the custom is well known to be unsanitary, and it tends to hinder the work of the police by enabling criminals to conceal their identity. After ten days any women wearing a veil will be arrested

'The Godfather' changed the way gangsters acted.

I like crime thrillers. I like heist movies.

Gangsters lived in the neighborhood. They weren't apart from it. Their relationships with people were both benevolent and scary.

The CIA in real life, we know, is looking for new kinds of cover. It's looking for new platforms, as they like to say, and it's trying to use the revolution in communications technology, the ability to use all sorts of corporate entities in ways that are hard to detect to get our spies in the places where they need to be.

The Mafia exists in the American imagination because we want it to exist.

Most cop movies and TV shows are fantasies.

I rarely carried a gun undercover.

A couple of my favourite cop movies are 'I Love a Man in Uniform' and 'The Long Goodbye.'