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I play a detective, very close to myself actually.

The thing I don't like about detective stories is looking for criminals.

I'm not a great student, so I don't know that I would have been a great detective. Part of my brain sort of works that way, like wanting to figure out puzzles and figure out what happened and why people do the things they do and who they are and how it happened.

I think Morse's thing about being a poor policeman but a good detective is a very good description of him.

People are fascinated by the darker sides of human nature, and I think they're also interested in seeing the ability that a particular detective or group of detectives might have to solve the crime and put the world right again.

I read a lot of detective novels.

You're right on the money with that. We're all like detectives in life. There's something at the end of the trail that we're all looking for.

Every man at the bottom of his heart believes that he is a born detective.

You need a crime, a detective, and the solution.