“- Peoples Hernandez: You're not a cop anymore.
- John Shaft: Do you think that makes me less dangerous, or more dangerous?”
Jeffrey Wright - Peoples Hernandez
Samuel L. Jackson - John Shaft

“- Gillian Bromley: It doesn't trouble you that blackmail is, in fact, against the law?
- Chief Insp. Cyril Willis: Policemen are constantly breaking the law. It's one of the many ways we have of upholding it.”
Lesley-Anne Down - Gillian Bromley
David Niven - Chief Insp. Cyril Willis

“- Cynthia Webb: Isn't this breaking and entering?
- Divinci: I don't know, I'm homicide, we don't learn that stuff.”

Lela Rochon - Cynthia Webb
Jim Belushi - Det. Frank Divinci

“- Rusty Griswold: Dad wasn't speeding. The cop stopped us because Dad forgot to...
- Ellen Griswold: He was speeding, Rusty!
- Rusty Griswold: No he wasn't, Mom. He...
- Clark Griswold: Rusty! Listen to your mother. I was speeding. I was driving like a maniac. We can all be grateful for this man for stopping us.”
Anthony Michael Hall - Rusty Griswold
Beverly D'Angelo - Ellen Griswold
Chevy Chase - Clark Griswold

“- Sheriff Loomis: I've been waitin' to catch you guys in the act. Been waitin' and watchin'.
- Packard Walsh: Congratulations. You caught us talking. There's no law against that, is there officer? Unless of course I got my wires crossed and you caught us speaking without a permit.”
Randy Quaid - Sheriff Loomis
Nick Cassavetes - Packard Walsh