Police quotes

“How many cops you know, huh? Got nothing. Divorced, alcoholic, kids won't talk to them anymore, can't get it up. Sitting there in their little apartments, alone in the dark, playing lollipop with a service revolver?”
Richard Tiffany Gere - Dennis Peck

“- Undercover Brother: You know what they say, behind every great black man...
- Conspiracy Brother: is the police.”
Eddie Griffin - Undercover Brother
Dave Chappelle - Conspiracy Brother

“- Anne Osborne: Why don't you believe that the killers were cops?
- Remy McSwain: Because if they were cops, they would've stayed right here. And when we arrived, we would've found plants, guns, knives, all kinds of evidence that they resisted arrest. That's somethin' every cop in the world knows how to do.”

Ellen Barkin - Anne Osborne
Dennis Quaid - Remy McSwain

“I'm bouncing from toy to toy like I'm some sort of drunk dude. Mom's smiling. My father's smiling. It's all good, right? Then around 8:30, cops show up. Take the toys, take my father. But for about two and a half hours I had a very, very happy childhood.”
Jamie Foxx - Alvin

“- Marvin: There's a cop over there, man.
- Joe Braxton: That ain't no cop!
- Marvin: How do you know?
- Joe Braxton: He don't piss like no cop.”
Paul Mooney - Marvin
Richard Pryor - Joe Braxton

“- Jack Travern: We have an injured man here. The driver's been shot.
- Howard Payne: Jack, tell me that you haven't been shooting the passengers. I thought it was customary for a police officer to shoot the bad guys.”
Keanu Reeves - Jack Traven
Dennis Hopper - Howard Payne

“- Nora McPhee: I don't have it anymore, it was stolen in the parking lot. But I told the police. I'm surprised they didn't tell you.
- Brian Costello: They tell me when other vehicles are stolen. They don't tell me when it's mine.”

Marsha Mason - Nora McPhee
Donald Sutherland - Brian Costello

“- Ren: You like Men at Work?
- Willard: Which man?
- Ren: Men at Work.
- Willard: Well where do they work?
- Ren: No, they don't, they're a music group.
- Willard: Well what do they call themselves?
- Ren: Oh no! What about the Police?
- Willard: What about 'em?
- Ren: You ever heard them?
- Willard: No, but I seen them.
- Ren: Where, in...” (continue)(continue reading)
Kevin Bacon - Ren
Chris Penn - Willard

“Of all the guys who I thought were gonna make it, Hightower was the one. I mean, if all the cops looked like him there'd be no crime at all.”

Donovan Scott - Leslie Barbara

“- Harry Callahan: Do you like cops?
- Samantha Walker: As long as they're not in my rearview mirror.”
Clint Eastwood - Harry Callahan
Patricia Clarkson - Samantha Walker

“- Mark: To me, Hollywood is about death.
- Sidney: Excuse me?
- Mark: I'm a homicide cop. When you see what I see day in and day out, the violence that people do to each other, you get haunted.”
Patrick Dempsey - Detective Mark Kincaid
Neve Campbell - Sidney Prescott

“Buster was my partner. We went all the way back to a squad car, for Christ's sake. He was the toughest badge I'd ever seen. Turn more collars than a Chinese dry cleaner.”
James Gandolfini - Det. Charles Hilderbrandt

“- Dr. Jack Griffin aka The Invisible Man: I give you a last chance to leave me alone.
- Constable Jaffers: Give me a last chance? You've commited assualt, that's what you've done, and you can come along to the station with me.”
Claude Rains - Dr. Jack Griffin aka The Invisible Man
E.E. Clive - Constable Jaffers

“- Mikhail Yaskov: I'm offering to put you right back into the game.
- Miles Kendig: Yaskov, Yaskov. I'd make a useless double agent.
- Mikhail Yaskov: Of course you would.
- Miles Kendig: Double agents must be drab little people. Colorless.”
Herbert Lom - Mikhail Yaskov
Walter Matthau - Miles Kendig

“- Isobel von Schmidt: When did you join the police force?
- Miles Kendig: It's the only car I could find that had any gas in it.”
Glenda May Jackson - Isobel von Schmidt
Walter Matthau - Miles Kendig

“Man, I love cops. If there were no hot shit cops like Gentry around, the competition would be so heavy there'd be nothing left to steal.”
Matt Dillon - Bob

“To be truly effective, a good narcotics agent must know and love narcotics. In fact, a good narcotics agent should have narcotics in his blood.”
Denzel Washington - Alonzo

“- Corky Romano: I never thought I'd live to see the day that an FBI agent would be peddling smack.
- Agent Brick Davis: Don't act so surprised. J. Edgar Hoover used to wear a dress.
- Corky Romano: Just tell me why, Brick.
- Agent Brick Davis: I don't know. I suppose it made him feel sexy.
- Corky Romano: Not Hoover. You!”
Chris Kattan - Corky Romano
Matthew Glave - Agent Brick Davis

“- David Stephens: It's a sick idea Alex. It's sick.
- Alex Law: Go ahead then, telephone. Telephone the police. Tell them it's a suitcase full of money and you don't want it.”

Christopher Eccleston - David Stephens
Ewan McGregor - Alex Law

“- Highway Patrolman: Get out of there! It's against the law to ride in the trunk in this state. I don't suppose you've got any I.D., either?
- Marlene: Idee? Idee 'bout what?”

Tim Thomerson - Highway Patrolman
Alexa Kenin - Marlene

“- James Ritchie: Am I talking to an actor now, or a human being?
- Chief Ins. Cockburn: Neither sir, I'm a policeman.”
Peter Gallagher - James Ritchie
Malcolm Storry - Chief Ins. Cockburn

“- Gordon: They've arrested Jonathan.
- Ben: Again? What for?
- Gordon: There is big trouble in the townships. They're killing our children! I saw the bodies, Mr. Ben. Many have been detained. I went to the hospital. To the mortuary. Everywhere! The police deny they have Jonathan.”
Winston Ntshona - Gordon
Donald Sutherland - Ben

“I admire you as a policeman - particularly your adherence to violence as a necessary adjunct to the job.”
James Cromwell - Dudley Smith

“A million guys in this town, and you have to knock off the crime commissioner!”

Stanley Fields - Sam Vettori

“- Mrs. White: Are you a cop?
- Mr. Green: No, I'm a plant.
- Miss Scarlet: A plant? I thought men like you were usually called a fruit.”

Madeline Kahn - Mrs. White
Michael McKean - Mr. Green
Lesley Ann Warren - Miss Scarlet