Police quotes

- Sergeant Clifton Sleigh: I'm investigating...
- Prof. Auguste Balls: Of course you're investigating! You're a policeman. I knew that the moment you walked into my emporium: your courage, your alertness, the way your eyes take in everything. I immediately said to myself "Balls, this is a policeman's policeman".
Ted Wass - Sergeant Clifton Sleigh
Harvey Korman - Prof. Auguste Balls

“- Lyman: Dooley, what is it about me that makes you so passionate?
- Dooley: Well, it's not your looks, Lyman. I guess it's your job.
- Lyman: And knowing your methods of law enforcement, I don't suppose that you have a search warrant?
- Dooley: Dog ate it. You can hang around his tail for an hour.”
Kevin Tighe - Lyman
Jim Belushi - Dooley

“- Earl Mott: Did you just shoot at me?
- Ken Kessler: No, you moron! There's police all over the place! Hundreds of them!
- Earl Mott: Do I look that stupid?
- Ken Kessler: Yes, you do!”
Bill Pullman - Earl
Judge Reinhold - Ken Kessler

“- Clouseau: The good-cop/bad-cop routine is working perfectly.
- Ponton: You know, usually two different cops do that.”
Steve Martin - Clouseau
Jean Reno - Ponton

“An on-the-job shooting is still considered a homicide. It's never an easy ride. If you do the right thing, I'll always have your back. Do the wrong thing and cross me - I will personally throw you under the bus.”
Jaime FitzSimons - Captain Reese

“- Robocop: Book him!
- Sergeant Warren Reed: What's the charge?
- Robocop: He's a cop killer.”

Peter Weller - Robocop
Robert DoQui - Sergeant Warren Reed

“The three Nite Owl suspects, while guilty of kidnapping and rape, were innocent of the multiple homicides at the Nite Owl. The actual gunmen were most likely Los Angeles Police Department officers Michael Breuning and William Carlisle, and a third man who may or may not have been Captain Dudley Smith.”
Guy Pearce - Ed Exley

“- 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

“- Surplus Store Owner: Why don't they call you guys officer-esses?
- Sandra: I beg your pardon?
- Surplus Store Owner: Like actress. Something to signify... you know.
- Sandra: I guess they feel a police officer is a police officer. Not a... you know.
- Surplus Store Owner: Okay then. Sorry I couldn't have been helpful, officer-ess.”
Frederic Forrest - Surplus Store Owner
Rachel Ticotin - Sandra

“Where's a goddamn cop when you need one?”

Stanley Brock - Counterman

“I shot a kid. He was 13-years-old. Oh, it was dark, I couldn't see him. He had a ray gun, looked real enough. You know, when you're a rookie, they can teach you everything about bein' a cop except how to live with a mistake.”
Reginald VelJohnson - Sgt. Al Powell

“They got their fingers into real estate, started making a lot of money taking over people's homes. The more money they got, the greedier they got. The greedier they got, the crazier they got. All sorts of rumors about what's going on in that place. Never proved it because the police never took it serious. But believe me, when I was a kid, none...” (continue)(continue reading)

Bill Cobbs - Grandpa Booker

“- Roman: You need to go to hell.
- Bryan: And you need to go back to Barstow!”
Tyrese Gibson - Roman Pearce
Paul William Walker IV - Brian O'Conner

“- Abel Turner: It's alright, I'm an officer.
- Officer #1: [holding a gun on him] I don't care if you're the Pope, asshole, get your hands up!”
Samuel L. Jackson - Abel Turner
Paul Terrell Clayton - Officer #1

“You know I'm a better cop when I get some in the morning, I feel lighter on my feet.”
Martin Lawrence - Marcus Burnett

- Insp. "Tequila" Yuen: Which year did you graduate? Who was your teacher?
- Alan: Are you testing me?
- Insp. "Tequila" Yuen: I'd just like to ask your teach how he managed to produce such a stubborn cop.
Chow Yun-Fat - Insp. "Tequila" Yuen
Tony Leung Chiu-Wai - Alan

“- Leon B. Little: I wanna get a hundred of those coppers.
- Harry Doyle: There's only fifty Leon.
- Leon B. Little: So? I'll shoot 'em all twice!”
Eli Wallach - Leon B. Little
Burt Lancaster - Harry Doyle

“- Cop: I gotta make an arrest here. I had a complaint.
- Valo: Wait, I got this sports watch, you can have it, here.”
Tony Hawk - Cop
Bam Margera - Valo

“- Coop: You're getting some serious shit for that. Cops are gonna be all over us.
- Gil Renard: Boy, all of a sudden you lost your sense of humor.”

Charles Hallahan - Coop
Robert De Niro - Gil Renard

“Being a cop gave me a chance to make a difference.”
Stephen Baldwin - Bo Dietl

“You were a cop, Joe. Now you're a garbage! You are nothing!”

Andy Garcia - Sean Casey

“Those assholes are cops. Who the fuck are you to judge 'em? Shit, man, you got a green dick. Those two guys have been risking their asses on the street for years.”

Michael Massee - Newton

“The FBI car antenna's are half inch matte black about three quarters way down the rear windshield. Statie a pigtail, BPD half and half. Every pewee in town knows what an FBI rear antenna looks like. So in the future you guys need try to be slick, be slicker than a six year old.”

Ben Affleck - Doug MacRay

“- Eliot Ness: Hey, wait a minute! What the hell kind of policemen you got in this god damn city? You just turned your back on an armed man.
- Jim Malone: You're a treasury officer.
- Eliot Ness: How do you know that? I just told you that.
- Jim Malone: Who would claim to be that who was not? Hmm?”
Kevin Costner - Eliot Ness
Sir Sean Connery - Jim Malone

“- Policeman: I wouldn't go in there. There's a big skunk in there.
- The Inspector: [flashes his badge] We know about that. It's a Toronto skunk. My jurisdiction.”
David Rigby - Policeman
Tom Harvey - The Inspector