Crime quotes

“- Steve: This is like grave robbing - grave robbing. Or worse.
- Ernie: I don't see any graves. Do you see any graves?
- Tommy Spinelli: There's going to be two fresh ones right now if you don't start looking for heads.”
Todd Louiso - Steve
David Spade - Ernie
Joe Pesci - Tommy

“Criminals thrive on the indulgence of society's understanding.”
Liam Neeson - Ducard

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

“- Fletcher: Damn you, Senator. You promised me those men would be decently treated.
- Senator Lane: They were decently treated. They were decently fed and then they were decently shot. Those men are common outlaws, nothing more.”
John Vernon - Fletcher
Frank Schofield - Senator Lane

“- R.J. Norringer: You're involved in something you know nothing about.
- Frank Daly: Doesn't matter what it is... if you've broken the law you've got to pay for it.”
Guy Boyd - R.J. Norringer
Brian Dennehy - Frank Daly

“- Chief Insp. Cyril Willis: Of all the crimes of which man is capable, the one that really rankles me is the violation of property. Oh, there's your murder, of course - rape, kidnap, wife beating...
- Mrs. Willis: Don't be ridiculous.
- Chief Insp. Cyril Willis: But life - however precious, life perishes. It's only property that lives on and on....” (continue)(continue reading)
David Niven - Chief Insp. Cyril Willis
Isabel Dean - Mrs. Willis

“You're still breathing 'cause I'm in a good fuckin' mood. When you start talkin' to somebody else's whores, when you start pokin' your nose into other people's shit, you got to pay the man. That's the rules. Old-time homicide roach oughta know that.”

Don Stark - Eddie Keats

“- Frollo: My conscience is clear.
- Archdeacon: You can lie to yourself and your minions, you can claim that you haven't a qualm, but you never can run from nor hide what you've done from the eyes!”
Tony Jay - Frollo
David Ogden Stiers - Archdeacon

“- Tommy Cotter: This I guarantee: that fuckin' Randolph has seen his last rainbow. We're going to find him, cut off his balls, and shove 'em up his ass.
- Sheldon Mopes: Well, maybe we should leave that for the cops, Tommy.
- Roy: Cops won't do the ball thing, it's against procedure.”

Pam Ferris - Tommy Cotter
Edward Norton - Sheldon Mopes
Bruce McFee - Roy

“These men act quickly. You don't know how clever their chief is. He has a dozen names, and he can look like a hundred people, but one thing he cannot disguise: part of his little finger is missing, so if ever you should meet a man with no top joint there, be very careful, my friend.”

Lucie Mannheim - Miss Smith

“Thoughtcrime is death. Thoughtcrime does not entail death. Thoughtcrime is death. I have committed even before setting pen to paper the essential crime that contains all others unto itself.”

Sir John Hurt - Winston Smith

“I realize that homicides and splashy robberies get most of the headlines, but it's about time this crime gets the attention it deserves.”
Clint Eastwood - Nick Pulovski

“I'm a relatively respectable citizen. Multiple felon perhaps, but certainly not dangerous.”
Johnny Depp - Raoul Duke

“- Edward Lewis: I don't sell the whole company, I break it up into pieces, and then I sell that off, it's worth more than the whole.
- Vivian Ward: So, it's sort of like, um… stealing cars and selling 'em for parts, right?
- Edward Lewis: Yeah, sort of. But legal.”
Richard Tiffany Gere - Edward Lewis
Julia Roberts - Vivian Ward

“- Don Canneloni: The Rigatonis, the Tortellinis, the Fettuchinis, and even the Raviolis are bigger than we are. And why?
- Tony: High interest rates.
- Sonny: Acid rain.
- Slim: Japanese imports.”
Dom DeLuise - Don Canneloni
Alex Rocco - Tony
Michael V. Gazzo - Sonny
Henry Silva - Slim

“- Paul Varjak: Sally Tomato?
- Holly Golightly: Oh, don’t look so shocked. They couldn’t prove he was even part of the mafia, much less head of it. My dear, the only thing that they did was prove that he cheated at his income tax. Anyway, all I know is that he’s a darling old man. He was never my lover or anything like that. In fact, I never...” (continue)(continue reading)
George Peppard - Paul Varjak
Audrey Hepburn - Holly Golightly

“- Jack Grace: Some nights I go out with Charlie and I rip off foreign business men. You should turn me into the police, you'd be doing the world a favor.
- Claire Harrison: It's too late. Someone already did. I'm an undercover agent for the RICO squad.”
Adrien Brody - Jack Grace
Charlotte Ayanna - Claire Harrison

“- Ethan Hunt: How does it feel to be a solid citizen again?
- Luther: Man, I don't know. I'm gonna miss bein' disreputable.
- Ethan Hunt: Well, Luther, if it makes you feel any better, I'll always think of you that way.”
Tom Cruise - Ethan Hunt
Ving Rhames - Luther

“- Paris: Paris P. Olgilvie. Antiquities dealer, entrepreneur.
- Riddick: Richard B. Riddick. Escaped convict. Murderer.”
Lewis Fitz-Gerald - Paris P. Ogilvie
Vin Diesel - Richard B. Riddick

“I'm scared, Fifi. You know why? It's that rat circus out there, I'm beginning to enjoy it. Look, any longer out on that road and I'm one of them, you know? A terminal crazy, except I've got a bronze badge that says I'm one of the good guys.”
Mel Gibson - Max

“If this guy's a dope dealer, then... like we're talking about, then that means we're like Robin Hood.”

Billy Bob Thornton - Jacob

“- Don Canneloni: In the past, the Canneloni family was the most powerful of the families. We controlled drugs, prostitution, extortion, prostitution, gambling...
- Slim: Uh, you said 'prostitution' twice.
- Don Canneloni: Well, I like it.”
Dom DeLuise - Don Canneloni
Henry Silva - Slim

“I once asked Moore what's worse than rape. Now I know. Betrayal.”
John Travolta - Paul Brenner

“- Frank: The FBI thinks it's organized crime.
- Jane Blue: Ah, the FBI thinks everything is organized crime.”
Richard Jenkins - Frank
Kathleen Turner - Jane Blue

“People who commit these acts are, in many ways, no different from you and me. But they are no longer able to control their urges. They disassociate themselves from their own actions also experiencing an hysterical blindness. They're blind to the darkness within themselves.”
Linda Fiorentino - Trina Gavin