Undercover Quotes - Page 2

• Maybe today you could have shot anybody and get away with it. So there's many times, I could have killed people. Legally, I could have killed many people, especially working undercover.

  Joe Arpaio

  People, Today, Shots

  "Off Message" with Glenn Thrush, www.politico.com. June 20, 2016.

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• I think Brad [Furman] crafted an amazing film [The Infiltrator]. It's so complex, it's incredibly thrilling, incredibly touching and it's what people have been trying to do for years in Hollywood, is to try to capture what it's like to be undercover, what is that duality of life? And I think that Brad really caught that.

  John Leguizamo

  Thinking, Years, People

  Source: collider.com

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• Undercover investigations threw back the curtain on the systemic exploitation of animals on factory farms. The response by agribusiness interests has been to back laws that ban animal advocates from taking pictures or videos at these facilities, and ban the media from publishing any that are taken. The laws also make it a crime for animal advocates to seek employment at animal enterprises without disclosing their intentions.

  Wayne Pacelle

  Taken, Animal, Media

  "Making Progress Against Animal Cruelty: An interview with Wayne Pacelle". Interview with Karen Dawn, progressive.org. July 20, 2016.

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• People were encouraged to snitch. [South Africa] was a police state, so there were police everywhere. There were undercover police. There were uniformed police. The state was being surveilled the entire time.

  Trevor Noah

  People, Police, Snitch

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Doing 'White Collar,' quite often my character goes undercover, so therein lies the compounding of the imagination. I get to play Peter Burke and then someone else when Peter Burke goes undercover.

  Tim DeKay

  Lying, Character, Play

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• I have my own method [of acting]. I come from, I've interrogated people; I come from an undercover background, so it's hard to teach an old dog new tricks.

  Mekhi Phifer

  Dog, People, Acting

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• I have fantasy jobs like working in retail at a department store just selling rich housewives outfits and saying 'this looks fabulous on you! Let me find a matching handbag!' Then, the other is being like some sort of Vice or taskforce, law enforcement, undercover [person]. Or possibly someday becoming a guerilla activist - I'm kind of in-training for that now anyways. So, maybe my retirement will be jumping on ships, kidnapping, and [participating in] espionage. I still fantasize.

  Mike Ness

  Retirement, Jobs, Jumping

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• I've always been fascinated by Baretta and Donny Brasco, and other undercover cops in movies.

  Dylan McDermott

  Cop, Fascinated

  "Dylan McDermott Interview DARK BLUE Season 2". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. August 2, 2010.

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• In the current socio-political climate, he said to himself, committing suicide is absurd and redundant. Better to become an undercover poet.

  Roberto Bolano

  Suicide, Political, Climate

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• I want to go to police academy, I want to actually go out and make a couple of arrests. I want to go undercover.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, Couple, Police

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• The regime of control tightens inexorably in our schools, many of which now have video cameras, police patrols, chain-link fences, random unannounced locker searches, metal detectors, drug-sniffing dogs, networks of informants, undercover police posing as students, and a comprehensive system of passes so that there is a record of each student's authorized whereabouts at all times. What a perfect preparation for life in a prison or a totalitarian society!

  Charles Eisenstein

  Dog, School, Perfect

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• Boyfriend huh? I didn't realize we had taken things to that level." "Oh, I'm sorry--this is my first undercover operation," Jordan said. "I'm a little unclear about the rules. Are we seeing other people in this fake relationship?

  Julie James

  Sorry, Taken, People

  Julie James (2011). “A Lot Like Love”, p.50, Penguin

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• I’d like to know more about this undercover agent who posed as my daughter’s date. The ubiquitous Tall, Dark, and Smoldering.' Nick put on his best meet-the-parent smile. 'I generally prefer to go by Nick.

  Julie James

  Daughter, Dark, Parent

  Julie James (2011). “A Lot Like Love”, p.178, Penguin

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• The Love Undercover series features two cops, a street rat, and a construction worker as the lead heroes.

  Lori Foster

  Hero, Two, Construction Workers

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