Crime quotes

“- Inspector Burgess: We used to talk about the criminal type. Criminal type my eye. It's not how a man looks, it's how his mind works that makes him a killer.
- Jack Marlow: You mean that all great murderers have been... insane?”
Thomas Gomez - Inspector Burgess
Franchot Tone - Jack Marlow

“Take a look around. The majority of the youth roam the streets... dealing in drugs, sex and violence, thinking these things have no real effect on life.”
Ben Chavis - Rev. Saviour

“- Ducard: When you lived among the criminals, did you start to pity them?
- Bruce Wayne: The first time I stole so that I wouldn't starve, yes. I lost many assumptions about the simple nature of right and wrong. And when I traveled, I learned the fear before a crime and the thrill of success. But I never became one of them.”
Liam Neeson - Ducard
Christian Bale - Bruce Wayne

“I can't believe I woke up this morning wondering if my daddy would loan me his overcoat, and here it is just past midnight and I've already robbed a railroad train and I'm sitting in a rocking chair chatting with none other than Jesse James.”
Casey Affleck - Robert Ford

“- A.N. Official: We think we can deal with General Bison. You're instructed to call off the assault. Contact him. Request an extension of his deadline. We are prepared to pay the ransom demand.
- Colonel Guile: Twenty billion dollars? What will prevent him from taking more hostages next month and asking for fifty billion?”
Simon Callow - A.N. Official
Jean-Claude Van Damme - Colonel Guile

“If I ran, they'd chase me. And they'd catch me. Everybody here, and each person I talk to for a long time to come would have a story to tell. With Gene, for the first time I broke both my rules. Rule 1: don't give a drink to someone you know. Rule 2: don't do anybody who lives in the same town as you. Why did I? I'm not one who believes people...” (continue)(continue reading)

Owen Wilson - Vann

“God, I love being a bad guy.”
Rand Kingsley - Snyder

“I'm not talking about a life of crime, just a momentary shift in lifestyle.”
Vincent Gallo - Russell Pataki

“The pain, I can assure you, will be exquisite. As for our deaths, there is nothing to fear. Our names will be written on a thousand walls. Our crimes told and retold by our faithful believers. We shall die together in front of their very eyes and give them something to be haunted by. Come with me and be immortal.”

Tony Todd - The Candyman

“- Mays Gilliam: If we had laws on the Destiny's Child Video, we'd have less crime.
- Brian Lewis: I think we should let the people decide.
- Mays Gilliam: The people can't decide! The people are too busy gettin shot in the ass!”
Chris Rock - Mays Gilliam
Nick Searcy - Brian Lewis

“Some men are broken by the laws that they break, unable to resist the forces that are pulling them down. Other men live by the rules that society sets down. You're not one of them.”

Gary Leonard Oldman - Milton Glenn

“If you hurt my girl, you will answer directly to me, and whatever crimes I commit against you, remember, I have diplomatic immunity in 46 countries, including Puerto Rico.”

Héctor Elizondo - Joe

“You're half-way up a mountain. Crime is the easy path to the bottom. Responsibility is the hard path to the top. But when you get there it's a great view.”
Steve Coogan - Simon Garden

“- Sam Sleaze: What seems to be the problem, officer? What's the charge?
- State Trooper: What about counterfeiting, extortion, fraud, impersonating a dentist, stealing an apple from a kid?
- Sam Sleaze: Oh, about that apple, officer, I can explain that. We was just holding it for a friend.
- State Trooper: You can tell that to the judge.”
Dave Thomas - Sam Sleaze
John Candy - State Trooper

“- Van Helsing: Dr. Jekyll, you're wanted by the Knights of the Holy Order...
- Mr. Hyde: It's Mr. Hyde, now!
- Van Helsing: For the murder of twelve men, six women, four...
- Mr. Hyde: Four children, three goats, and a rather nasty massacre of poultry!”
Hugh Jackman - Abraham Van Helsing
Robbie Coltrane - Mr. Hyde

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

“You can obtain the confidence of criminals when one is branded a criminal.”

Peter Lorre - Mr. Moto

“The pirate Yellowbeard captured many other galleons, killing over five-hundred men in cold blood. He would tear the captains hearts out and swallow them whole. Often forcing his victims to eat their own lips, he was caught and imprisoned... for tax evasion.”

“- Kovu: I humbly ask to join your pride.
- Simba: No! You were banished, along with the outsiders.
- Kovu: I have left the outsiders. I'm a rogue, judge me now, for who I am. Or am I to be blamed for a crime I didn't commit?”
Jason Marsden - Kovu
Matthew Broderick - Simba

“- Browning: Are you in organized crime?
- Bart: I'm in Parliament.
- Browning: Six of one.”
Chevy Chase - Browning
Omar Sharif - Bart

“- Capt. Amazing: You're... you're all superheroes.
- The Shoveller: Well, we fight crime. Call it what you will.”
Greg Kinnear - Captain Amazing
William H. Macy - Shoveler

“- Sister Superior: You stole money because you want to get out of organized crime?
- Brian Hope: Oh, it was stolen already.”
Janet Suzman - Sister Superior
Eric Idle - Brian Hope

“Guilt or innocence, that's not my job. It's my duty to pick up scum-sucking punks like yourself who are accused of a crime. A jury of twelve really stupid people who are easily swayed by rich, fat-cat, slimy lawyers, who'll do anything but tell the truth, will sit in judgment of you. It's as American as a burrito.”
Richard Crenna - Lieutenant Fergus Falls

“- Captain Briggs: I ought to bust your ass down to traffic. Or better yet, kick it off the force! You're a dinosaur, Callahan. Your ideas don't fit today.
- Harry Callahan: Just what ideas are these? That murder's a crime? That it shouldn't be punished?”
Bradford Dillman - Captain Briggs
Clint Eastwood - Harry Callahan

“These are the best security men in the world. The used to work for J.C. Penney... in Detroit!”
Richard Libertini - General Garcia