“- Mona Stangley: You ain't never gonna be no more than you are right now: a chicken-shit sheriff in a chicken-shit town!
- Sheriff Ed Earl Dodd: You may be right, but it's a hell of a lot better than being a whore.”
Dolly Parton - Mona Stangley
Burt Reynolds - Sheriff Ed Earl Dodd

“Not to go after criminals because they might try to harm you is really not a policy of the FBI.”
Richard Jenkins - Robert Grace

“I was off-duty one day in this bar in Washington Heights where cops didn't have to pay for their drinks. And a couple of guys came in to rob the place. I chased them into the street, shot two dead, got a third one in the leg. He'll never walk right again. Yeah. I quit drinking that day. It just wasn't as much fun after that.”

Liam Neeson - Matt Scudder

“There are five basic contaminants in a crime scene. I'll skip to the worse one. Other cops.”
Denzel Washington - Lincoln Rhyme

“- Lori: What are you? C.I.A., Mafia?
- Wallace Ritchie: Both.”
Joanne Whalley - Lori
Bill Murray - Wallace Ritchie