Police quotes

“- Walter Neff: What do the police figure?
- Barton Keyes: That he got tangled up in his crutches and fell off the train. They're satisfied. It's not their dough.”

Fred MacMurray - Walter Neff
Edward G. Robinson - Barton Keyes

“Here is my badge, here is my gun, and here is me, leaving!”

Richard Stephen Dreyfuss - Chris Lecce

“- Rusty Griswold: Dad wasn't speeding. The cop stopped us because Dad forgot to...
- Ellen Griswold: He was speeding, Rusty!
- Rusty Griswold: No he wasn't, Mom. He...
- Clark Griswold: Rusty! Listen to your mother. I was speeding. I was driving like a maniac. We can all be grateful for this man for stopping us.”
Anthony Michael Hall - Rusty Griswold
Beverly D'Angelo - Ellen Griswold
Chevy Chase - Clark Griswold

“- Ernesto Escobedo: Someone has been talking to the drug police.
- Felix Cortez: Now that's impossible. If anyone spoke to the police, I would be the first to know.”

Miguel Sandoval - Ernesto Escobedo
Joaquim de Almeida - Felix Cortez

“- Harold: [referring to police officer] He's following us.
- Maude: Is he? Police always want to play games!”
Bud Cort - Harold
Ruth Gordon - Maude

“- Liu Jian: I am a cop.
- Jessica Kamen: I am Santa Claus.
- Liu Jian: Who is Santa Claus?”
Jet Li - Liu Jian
Bridget Fonda - Jessica Kamen

“I can't do anything... I'm a cop.”
Ed Lauter - Richard Shriker

“- 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

“- Trish: What are you doing?
- Orin Boyd: I'm a cop, it's alright.
- Trish: Since when do cops make things okay?
- T.K. Johnson: Since when do cops make... Man, that shit hurts.”
Eva Mendes - Trish
Steven Seagal - Orin Boyd
Anthony Anderson - T.K. Johnson

“- Julie James: Somebody tried to kill you last night; we have to go to the police.
- Barry William Cox: No he wasn't trying to kill me last night. If he wanted me dead he could've done it, he's just fucking with us.”
Jennifer Love Hewitt - Julie James
Ryan Phillippe - Barry William Cox

“- Kaplan: I don't like it any more than you do, Reed, but listen.
- Sergeant Warren Reed: You listen to me, you asshole! You're talking about shutting down a major metropolitan police force! Without cops, this city would tear itself apart!”
Del Zamora - Kaplan
Robert DoQui - Sergeant Warren Reed

“- Jack Vincennes: Why in the world do you wanna go digging any deeper into the Nite Owl killings, Lieutenant?
- Ed Exley: Rollo Tamasi. Rollo was a purse snatcher. My father ran into him off duty, and he shot my father six times and got away clean. No one even knew who he was.”
Kevin Spacey - Jack Vincennes
Guy Pearce - Ed Exley

“I hate in-house funerals. I write all the music each time. A cop dies, and I have to play a tune for him. I really don't want to do that for you.”

Chow Yun-Fat - Insp. "Tequila" Yuen

“All the lowlifes in quiet city Boston start dropping dead and you think it's unrelated! Greenly, the day I want the Boston Police to do my thinking for me, I will have a fucking tag on my toe!”
Willem Dafoe - Paul Smecker

“Rollo Tamasi is the reason I became a cop. I wanted to catch the guys who thought they could get away with it. It's supposed to be about justice. Then somewhere along the way, I lost sight of that.”

Guy Pearce - Ed Exley

“- Esperanza: Who are you?
- John McClane: A cop.
- Esperanza: A cop?
- John McClane: Yeah. One of the good guys. You see, you're one of the bad guys, and now that I got your sorry ass, I'm gonna trade it for my wife.”
Franco Nero - Esperanza
Bruce Willis - John McClane

“- 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

“- Jack Traven: Tell me again Harry, why did I take this job?
- Harry: Oh come on, thirty more years of this, you get a tiny pension and a cheap gold watch.
- Jack Traven: Cool.”

Keanu Reeves - Jack Traven
Jeff Daniels - Harry

“- Martin Riggs: What I wouldn't give for a siren right now!
- Roger Murtaugh: Aawwwww!”

Mel Gibson - Martin Riggs
Danny Glover - Roger Murtaugh

“- Capt. Harris: Not exactly a four star hotel, is it?
- Lt. Talinsky: Well, we spend our police budget on fighting criminals, not on pampering out of town visitors.
- Capt. Harris: It was your government that brought us here!
- Lt. Talinsky: They also bring in monkeys for zoo, but we don't put them in four star hotel either!”
G.W. Bailey - Capt. Harris
Gregg Berger - Lt. Talinsky

“In Germany, one does not bring police into matters which concern the past.”
David Byrd - Obermann

“- Torchy's Patron: What kind of cop are you?
- Reggie Hammond: You know what I am? I'm your worst fuckin' nightmare, man. I'm a nigger with a badge which means I got permission to kick your fuckin' ass whenever I feel like it!”
Nick Dimitri - Torchy's Patron
Eddie Murphy - Reggie Hammond

“- Joe Cabot: You don't know jack shit! I do! The cocksucker tipped off the cops and had Mr. Brown and Mr. Blue killed.
- Mr. Pink: Mr. Blue is dead?
- Joe Cabot: Dead as Dillinger.”

Lawrence Tierney - Joe Cabot
Steve Buscemi - Mr. Pink

“- Marty McFly: What about the police, Biff? They're gonna match up the bullet with that gun.
- Biff Tannen: Kid, I own the police! Besides, they couldn't match up the bullet that killed your old man.”
Michael J. Fox - Marty McFly
Thomas F. Wilson - Biff Tannen

“- Gianelli: I'm a police officer. Drop the gun!
- Billy Caufield: I'm a mental patient. I'm not impressed.
- Gianelli: You're not this crazy, are you?
- Billy Caufield: Actually, this is my idea of a good time.”
James Remar - Gianelli
Michael Keaton - Billy Caufield