It does annoy me when I walk into a room and there are six men over the age of 40 with, let's just say, a major gut problem, and they're saying 'hang on there Dervla, don't eat your chocolate cake at dessert.'

Yoga is great for easing my back pain. It also helps me keep stress at bay, which is something I can suffer from.

My kids will never need a bodyguard because they'll have me.

I love people.

I'm a bit of a clotheshorse, and having a tailor-made suit is a big deal.

This isn't the most handsome face in the world, and there are a lot of younger guys out there, but I keep hanging in there.

I live my life. And the best place to do that is Chicago.

I like working. I like getting up every morning and going somewhere. Where I do it or what form doesn't matter.

I've probably played more non-police roles than people realize.

Maybe it's because I was too much reality, but I'm not interested in seeing too much reality anymore. I'd rather watch a Dean Martin concert and let the world go by.

Everybody wants to look in the mirror and see Cary Grant looking back at them, but that's just not the case.

You can't act for the editing. You have to leave that to him. So you just go in and do the scene the way you think is right or whatever you're directed to do, and leave the rest of that technical stuff up to the director.

I had seen 'Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels' and I thought that was a different kind of film than I'd seen before, with that kind of editing and slick camera movements.

I have - and you gotta believe this - hardly ever met anybody in Hollywood who's not nice. There are some people I don't like, but everybody has been very nice.

Am I a good actor? I don't think about it. But I'm working on it.

You really have to act on the force, too. You're involved in a hundred things a day, and you have to react in a hundred different ways, depending on what's going on. And you learn that as you go through your career, how you handle certain situations, interrogations, how you carry yourself. There's a kind of acting to it.

I think my high-school acting career lasted a day.

If you did something, and it wasn't right, you definitely found out about it. And they were pretty smart people, both my parents, so you didn't get too much by them.

My parents, I don't know about 'strict,' but I would say they were fair and judicious, you know?

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

There's not too many offers that come my way about being in a musical.

I like being in the '60s.

I even played a part in 'Miami Vice.'

Most cop movies and TV shows are fantasies.