Roger Allam Quotes

I am coming back to that which has most affected me. I'm coming back to Law & Order: Special Victims Unit.

I've been a police officer for over 20 years, and I've investigated murders and all kinds of different crimes.

I've always been a big fan of 'Law & Order: SVU.' I think Mariska Hargitay and Chris Meloni are just incredible.

I had a great time on The Shield. From working on it I have a totally different view of law enforcement.

The most credible police shows I've ever seen were 'Barney Miller' on TV and 'The French Connection' movie. They showed the tedious side of police work.

'Law & Order' has the same plot every single episode.

I never saw myself as being a cop on TV.

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

'Dark Blue' is ultimately a gritty crime drama, at its core. I don't think that is ever going to change.

'Law & Order' was so very interesting to me because what I got to do was explore New York along with getting to work with some of the best actors New York City had to offer.

I enjoyed being a police officer; I enjoyed the investigations.

Gimmicks come and go; the cop show seems one genre that will never leave - not as long as people like to sit at home in the suburbs and see what awful things go on in the cities.

'The Glades' is a light cop procedural about a cop from Chicago who got shot in the bum by his captain and made a change down to Florida, so he's a bit of a fish out of water.

I had a dream, when I was little, to become a police officer and a crime investigator.

I have always been a big fan of the BBC program 'Luther' with Idris Elba.

If a police officer is looking for a criminal, he or she might stop a number of people in that particular area and ask to see their driver's license. No one bellyaches about civil rights or privacy issues. We're just happy the cops are trying to find the bad guy.

'Criminal Intent' scripts are very good. Like others involved in 'Law & Order' stuff, I've come to appreciate the lack of 'soap,' if you will. The story dominates. You don't spend a lot of time with the psychological underpinnings of the police.

Joseph Wambaugh did not invent the police novel, but no one had seen anything like 'The New Centurions' when it was published in 1971. Here was a working, living, breathing cop with a decade of experience on the beat.

I think I have made too many cop films.

We're all used to seeing a lot of cop shows, some of them brilliant, some of them very generic.

I didn't watch a lot of cop shows growing up, but I am a huge fan of 'Southland' now.

I have a big, long episode [in Full Circle] with Calista [Flockhart], and then my character actually carries out through a lot of it because he was a cop investigating this crime. But it is almost hard to remember, even though it wasn't that long ago. We shot it so fast. We literally shot that whole episode in one day.

I've been watching detective shows, like 'Wallander' and the Danish 'The Killing.' I'm like, 'That would be kind of fun to do.'

It's a different kind of acting, this 'Law & Order' thing. They want two partners who can play off each other well and are fun to watch, but depth of character is not necessary in this job. Too much character gets in the way of the story. This is a very specific gig.

I've played a lot of cop parts.