Manny Montana Quotes

I get too involved with my job. If I was to do anything besides acting, I would be a fireman or a beat cop. I'd do a regular job.

My father was a police officer before he retired. One of my brothers is also a police officer, and I think they kind of expected I would do something along those lines, like become a fireman or something.

Even in the best of times, there is no tougher calling than serving as a police officer.

I always wanted to be a cop or a fireman or do something dangerous.

When your dad's a cop, calling 911 is really just like calling Dad at work.

My dad was a New York City cop. His father was a New York City fireman. And my mother's dad was a city taxi driver.

I have some cops in my family. I understand the predicament that they're in. Sometimes they go into it just to pay the bills or because they don't have other choices, or sometimes they just want to get the gun.

I'm from Chicago. My grandfather was a policeman, and my aunts are married to policemen.

My father was a sergeant with the Connecticut state police. My mother was a hairstylist.

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

I grew up in a family of firemen and cops.

I love acting - I love doing it. It's a lot of fun, but for the longest time, I wanted to become a firefighter. I still do want to become a firefighter.

It was a great time, and I liked the guys. I liked getting up every morning and being a cop.

I couldn't be a police officer. It's a very difficult job to put your life in the face of danger for someone else, and that is extremely selfless. To now vilify cops is not really the way I think it should be looked at.

I was a fireman very early on in my life and a police officer, so I'm very militaristic, clean.

I joined the police force with one motivation in mind: to become a high school PE teacher. After a year of working, I realized that a) I was making twice as much money as I would in the teaching profession, and b) I was having too much fun. I stuck it out for 32 years and no regrets.

My father was a cop.

Being a good police officer is one of the most difficult, dangerous, idealistic jobs in the world.

Being a police officer in America is a tough job.

The police are not entrusted with a mission which differentiates them from those they serve. Being unconcerned with ultimate purposes, they are inseparable from the persons and interests of their masters, and shine with their reflected glory.

I grew up like every young kid I know, who wants to be a cop and wants to be a firefighter, so this lifestyle that I've chosen happens to offer that in small doses in front of the camera. I want to take advantage of that. Hopefully I can play many, many different occupations.

My godfather was a Chicago policeman, and I've always looked at law enforcement as a challenging and interesting job.

A lot of small towns in Texas have only volunteer fire departments. And even though they're called volunteer fire departments, they are usually very professional and have great training and usually have good equipment.

I rarely carried a gun undercover.

Unlike other professions - doctor, lawyer, teacher, journalist, sales clerk, stock broker - when a cop makes a bad mistake, it could mean someone is dead. They take home mental baggage unlike anything carried in almost every other job.