Police quotes

603 police quotes, film quotes, movie lines, taglines
  • “- Lee Harvey: Is your old lady happy?
    - Lieutenant Gerke: Is my old lady happy?
    - Lee Harvey: Yeah, because if your fuckin' is anything like your police work then you couldn't hit the G-spot on a twelve pound pussy.”

    Mongo Brownlee - Lee Harvey
    Chris Cooper - Lieutenant Gerke
    [Tag:happiness, police, wife]
  • “- Lt. Hollis: You don't happen to know this lady, do you?
    - Joel Campbell: No, never. Why? What's happened? She's dead?
    - Lt. Hollis: I have made no reference to homicide... Why would you hasten to such a conclusion?
    - Joel Campbell: Well, you've got half the block taped off and about a dozen cops in there fucking up your crime scene... Doesn't...” (continue)
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    Chris Ellis - Hollis
    James Spader - Campbell
    [Tag:crime, murder, police]
  • “- Paul: I'll be treated with care if you take me to the police. If they don't know you're special, they kill you.
    - Ouisa Kittredge: Oh, I don't think they kill you.
    - Paul: Mrs. Louisa Kittredge, I am black.
    - Ouisa Kittredge: I will deliver you to them with kindness and affection.”

    Will Smith - Paul
    Stockard Channing - Ouisa
    [Tag:kindness, police, racism]
  • “I like London. You know I did my research before I came. I came because I found out it was my kind of town. I mean the cops don't carry guns. Now the cops still try and chase the bad guys; but they don't find it necessary to kill him when they catch him. I call that civilized. That's one of the reasons I left New York to come here.”
    Ed Lauter - Smoke
    [Tag:london, new york, police]
  • “- Cop: You think someday you're gonna organize the cops?
    - Jimmy Hoffa: Hey, that's easy. Someday I'm gonna organize the crooks.”

    Nicholas Giordano - Cop
    Jack Nicholson - James R. Hoffa
    [Tag:ambition, fraud, police]
  • “- Jake: I've heard about the charge of the body count. What the hell happened Frank?
    - Frank Castle: Frank is dead! Alright?
    - Jake: I see. So, you decided that everybody else had to be dead too, is that it?
    - Frank Castle: No. If you're guilty, you're dead.
    - Jake: Courts decide whose guilty. Not cops. We hereby swear to uphold the law, remember?”

    Louis Gossett Jr. - Jake Berkowitz
    Dolph Lundgren - Frank Castle, The Punisher
    [Tag:court, guilt, police]
  • “Few people understand the psychology of dealing with a highway traffic cop. A normal speeder will panic and immediately pull over to the side. This is wrong. It arouses contempt in the cop heart. Make the bastard chase you. He will follow.”
    Johnny Depp - Raoul Duke
    [Tag:chase, police, understanding]
  • - Anthony Fait: You read Chinese?
    - Archie: No, but I know "cop" in every language.

    DMX - Anthony Fait
    Tom Arnold - Archie
    [Tag:language, police, words]
  • - Mac: All right, how about "Cat Game"?
    - Foster: Cat Game? What's the record?
    - Mac: Thorny did six, but I think you can do ten.
    - Foster: Ten? Starting right 'meow'?

    Steve Lemme - Mac
    Paul Soter - Foster
    [Tag:game, police]
  • “- Paul Miller: You were born to be a detective!
    - Donald Wilson: I was?
    - Paul Miller: You reek of detective!
    - Donald Wilson: I reek?”

    Lorin Dreyfuss - Paul Miller
    David Landsberg - Donald Wilson
    [Tag:investigation, police]
  • “I don't know nothing. I don't see nothing. I don't hear nothing. When I do, I don't tell the cops.”
    Paul Muni - Tony
    [Tag:conspiracy, police, silence]
  • “- Jake: Who are you?
    - Alonzo: I'm the zig-zag man, who the fuck are you?
    - Jake: I'm a cop.
    - Alonzo: Watch out... don't shoot nobody.”

    Ethan Hawke - Jake
    Denzel Washington - Alonzo
    [Tag:killing, police]
  • “- Nick Lassiter: What happens if they catch me? You gonna bring on the cavalry?
    - Peter Breeze: Well... if they catch you in the embassy there's nothing we can do. That embassy is Germany, you might as well be in Berlin.”

    Tom Selleck - Nick Lassiter
    Joe Regalbuto - Peter Breeze
    [Tag:country, police]
  • “- Big Baby Sweets: Who the fuck is this Sugar Bear?
    - Phat Tittie Kittie: He's a cop from Frisko. He's the baddest cop on the force. I heard he took the entire Frisko cartell on by himself. I heard that motherfucker swallowed a hand granade to save a bunch of refugees and shit. He's one bad motherfucker.”

    Violent J - Big Baby Sweets
    Kayla Kleevage - Phat Tittie Kittie
    [Tag:courage, police, strength]
  • “You know Chinese don't trust whites or cops, and you send me a white cop?”
    Chow Yun-Fat - Nick Chen
    [Tag:ethnicity, police, trust]
  • “Let me give you a piece of advice here, Beck. You're a big city cop. If I was in the big city I'd listen to you. But this ain't the big city, this is Cottonwood, population twenty two thirty one. I'm the chief of police. This is my town, my territory. I'll make it real simple, nobody is gonna fuck with me here.”
    Brad Sullivan - Chief Hillard
    [Tag:city, commanding, police]
  • “I'm the law, I ain't gotta do nothing.”

    Pruitt Taylor Vince - Ballard
    [Tag:law, police]
  • “- Lincoln Rhyme: I want you to work the case with us.
    - Amelia Donaghy: It's not my area.
    - Lincoln Rhyme: Are you being modest or are you... a little uneasy about doing some real police work?”

    Denzel Washington - Lincoln Rhyme
    Angelina Jolie - Amelia Donaghy
    [Tag:modesty, police, working]
  • “- Hedra Carlson: Okay. Come on. The police will be here soon.
    - Allison Jones: But... But you shouldn't run. It'll only make it worse. I know you weren't yourself when you did this, Hedy.
    - Hedra Carlson: I know. I was you. Who is this Hedy, anyway? No one's seen her. She's not on the lease. There's not even a fingerprint of hers here. I've been...” (continue)
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    Jennifer Jason Leigh - Hedra Carlson
    Bridget Fonda - Allison Jones
    [Tag:deceit, escape, police]
  • “- 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
    [Tag:crime, police, torture]
  • “- CID Officer: We believe foul play was involved.
    - Tommy Patel: Surely you don't think I...
    - CID Officer: I don't think anything, sir. I'm a police officer.”

    Cal MacAninch - CID Officer
    Eric Idle - Tommy Butterfly Rainbow Peace Patel
    [Tag:police, thinking]
  • “Then, by God, you've been sent here by providence! Tortured in prison, then thrown out to be tortured by the police. My heart goes out to you, poor, poor boy. Oh, you are not the first to come here in distress. The police are fond of bringing their victims to the outskirts of this village. But it is providential that you, who are also another...” (continue)(continue reading)
    Patrick Magee - Mr. Alexander
    [Tag:police, victims]
  • “- Jesse Stone: How quickly can your people match the bullets to the ones from the first victim?
    - Captain Healy: I'm the state homicide commander. I'm not God.
    - Jesse Stone: I thought they were the same thing.”

    Tom Selleck - Jesse Stone
    Stephen McHattie - Captain Healy
    [Tag:god, police, victims]
  • “- Arresting Officer: Sir, could I please see your license?
    - Pedro: Whuut?
    - Arresting Officer: Your license. Where's your license?
    - Pedro: It's back there on the bumper, man!
    - Arresting Officer: No, I mean your DRIVER'S license.
    - Pedro: Oh yeah, I got the bullshit back here man... [gets license with great difficulty].
    - Pedro: Hey I...” (continue)
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    Arthur Roberts - Arresting Officer
    Cheech Marin - Pedro De Pacas
    [Tag:drugs, mistake, police]
  • “- Glasses: Can't get over the mistake you made. You've been set up, you know.
    - The Driver: By a cop.
    - Glasses: That's right. He's waiting for you right now at the wrong place. Me and my buddy don't want to show up. You two hot-shots have both been set up, haven't you? You know what always amazed me about you? A guy with your attitude - never...” (continue)
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    Joseph Walsh - Glasses
    Ryan O'Neal - The Driver
    [Tag:mistake, police, weapons]
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