“Street Kings” quotes

“- Tom Ludlow: So you know who I am, and I know who you're not.
- Coates: Who are we? We straight nightmares. We the walking, talking exigent circumstances.”
Keanu Reeves - Tom Ludlow
Common - Coates

“- Tom Ludlow: Everyone's out for theirs. The way of the world.
- Fremont: Cops are like weeds. You pull one out, and two more fucking grow back.”
Keanu Reeves - Tom Ludlow
Cle Sloan - Fremont

“Everyone comes here, they have a complaint. They sit down. I do waiting for five hours and you're gonna ask me do I have a complaint?”
Kami Jones - Black Woman

“- Grace Garcia: What about the truth? You have to honor your friend. Don't turn your back on him. Good can come from bad.
- Tom Ludlow: Bad breeds more bad.”
Martha Higareda - Grace Garcia
Keanu Reeves - Tom Ludlow

“I'm sick of this shit. It's the same damn song for three years. Crying about your wife. She's gone. What's it going to take to bring you back from Mars?”

Forest Whitaker - Captain Jack Wander

“This thing you want that you think you want, you don't want.”

Keanu Reeves - Tom Ludlow

“She was a waitress at a jazz bar. I'd sit in her section, wouldn't let anybody else serve me. She's change sections, I'd change tables. Persistance that's the key.”

Hugh Laurie - Captain James Biggs

“- Detective Paul Diskant: So we're just gonna go in there and kill them?
- Tom Ludlow: No, I'm going to ask them some questions. Then we're going to kill them.”
Chris Evans - Detective Paul Diskant
Keanu Reeves - Tom Ludlow

“If you're going to do something, do it now.”

Keanu Reeves - Tom Ludlow

“You went toe-to-toe with evil, and you won.”
Forest Whitaker - Captain Jack Wander

“- Grace Garcia: How can they just wave a pen and change what happens?
- Tom Ludlow: We're the police. We can do whatever the hell we want. It doesn't matter what happens; it's how we write it up.”
Martha Higareda - Grace Garcia
Keanu Reeves - Tom Ludlow

“I know how not knowing hurts.”

Keanu Reeves - Tom Ludlow

“You hate me, but you need me.”

Keanu Reeves - Tom Ludlow

“- Tom Ludlow: What do they call you?
- Quicks: They call me fucking Quicks.
- Tom Ludlow: Quicks? Not quick enough.”
Keanu Reeves - Tom Ludlow
Noel Gugliemi - Quicks

“- Tom Ludlow: You married, Diskant?
- Detective Paul Diskant: Engaged. And I'd like to see her again.”

Keanu Reeves - Tom Ludlow
Chris Evans - Detective Paul Diskant

“- Tom Ludlow: You were my best friend.
- Captain Jack Wander: You were family.”
Keanu Reeves - Tom Ludlow
Forest Whitaker - Captain Jack Wander

“I can't afford to lose you. Who would do what you do? You are the tip of the fucking spear. Who's going to hold back the animals?”

Forest Whitaker - Captain Jack Wander

“How can you shoot a guy taking a dump? That's sacred. That's like shooting a man in church.”

Amaury Nolasco - Detective Cosmo Santos