Detective Drama Quotes

Laura from The Mysteries Of Laura is the most different from me personally that I've ever played. I'm a very thoughtful, forward-thinking, planner kind of person. I love Excel spreadsheets and five-year-plans, and I love to review every year how my New Year's resolutions went. I'm like that, and that is not Laura at all.

[on BBC's Sherlock] It's a rare challenge, both for the audience and an actor, to take part in something with this level of intelligence and wit. You have to really enjoy it. It's a form of mental and physical gymnastics.

I'm really into the detective drama genre.

All the plays that have ever been written, from ancient Greece to the present day, have never really been anything but thrillers... Drama's always been realistic and there's always been a detective about... Every play's an investigation brought to a successful conclusion.

I never have liked detective dramas. I try to watch all of them to see what's going on, but I don't like them.

If Sherlock Holmes can survive the Reichenbach Falls, then surely we have not seen the last of Detective Sergeant John Munch.

(In) most cop shows, every cop in the squad speaks exactly the same and the same kind of short clipped film noir-ish talk.

In the case of Five-O, I believe it was a combination of many ingredients - timing, chemistry, Hawaii.

I have enormously fond memories of working on 'Bergerac.'

I want people of my generation who've never seen 'Endeavour' before to enjoy this series.

I'm a big fan of John Nettles.

With 'True Detective,' you have a lot of time. How I like to describe it... it's like you're filming a theater piece.