Police quotes

“- Professor Plum: Is there gonna be a cover up?
- Wadsworth: Isn't that in the public interest? What could be gained by exposure?
- Professor Plum: But is the FBI in the habit of cleaning up after a multiple murder?
- Wadsworth: Yes. Why do you think it's run by a man called Hoover?”
Chris Lloyd - Professor Plum
Tim Curry - Wadsworth

“- Dr. Gonzo: [spills the cocaine] Jesus! You see what God just did to us, man?
- Raoul Duke: God didn't do that, you did it. You're a fucking narcotics agent, I knew it! That was our cocaine, you fucking pig swine whore.”
Benicio del Toro - Dr. Gonzo
Johnny Depp - Raoul Duke

“- Sgt. Al Powell: What's the matter? You don't think jockeying papers around a desk is a noble effort for a cop?
- John McClane: No.”
Reginald VelJohnson - Sgt. Al Powell
Bruce Willis - John McClane

I don't play "good cop, bad cop" - requires too much patience. I go straight to "bad cop, worse cop". Now behave!
Jennifer Esposito - Daphne

“To a cop the explanation is never that complicated. It's always simple. There's no mystery to the street, no arch criminal behind it all. If you got a dead body and you think his brother did it, you're gonna find out you're right.”
Kevin Spacey - Verbal

“That's how they got me. It was the one time I didn't run. I just got tired of runnin'. Somethin' had to change. So be it. I'd take the time they gave me. I could handle it.”
Shar-Ron Corley - Jason Petty

“Did you know your daddy grew vegetables Raphael? Your daddy was a farmer before he became a po-lice-man.”

Charles Bronson - Mr. Roberts

“- Ordell Robbie: What the fuck you doing knockin' on the door like the goddamn police? You wanna die?
- Max Cherry: I thought you might be asleep.
- Ordell Robbie: You keep fucking with me, you're gonna be asleep forever.”
Samuel L. Jackson - Ordell Robbie
Robert Forster - Max Cherry

“There are more police on the street tonight than whores.”
Paul Kemp - Pickpocket with Six Watches

“There's about as much chance of me getting behind a desk as there is of me getting a new girlfriend.”
Warren Beatty - Dick Tracy

You remember when we were in training? They always told us, "You can't be a good cop if you're a dead cop". Here's your chance to prove them wrong. You're good and you're dead.
Joe Piscopo - Doug Bigelow

“- Chief Harry Shannon: You remember my son Blair?
- Mark Kaminsky: Yeah. We went to a few ball games together. He joined the bureau, didn't he?
- Chief Harry Shannon: Yeah.
- Mark Kaminsky: How is he?
- Chief Harry Shannon: Dead.”
Darren McGavin - Harry Shannon
Arnold Schwarzenegger - Mark Kaminsky

“- Angel: I got my wings.
- Michael Alig: Then fly away home. The police are coming!”
Wilson Cruz - Angel
Macaulay Culkin - Michael Alig

“The following day I asked her to wait for me, I never saw her again; I was arrested a few moments later. No doubt believing it was all another lie, she'd slit her wrists with a knife. As Charlie would say, the gods are on my side; the police found her, saving her life just in time.”
Adrien Brody - Jack Grace

“- Det. Barzak: Freeze! Police! Freeze! I don't know why I tell 'em to freeze - they never freeze.
- Det. Hazeltine: He should've froze.
- Det. Barzak: Well, it's not like we didn't tell him, man.”

Robert Carradine - Det. Barzak
Billy Dee Williams - Det. Hazeltine

“Ya'll cant fuck wit tha police! Ya'll cant fuck wit tha police.”
Mike Epps - Day-Day

“My memory is like a policeman. It is never there when you want it.”
Tom Courtenay - Norman

“Arm your agents, and not just with revolvers. If these gangsters want to use machine guns, then give your special agents machine guns, shot guns, tear gas, everything else! This is war!”

Addison Richards - Bruce J. Gregory

“You are very gray today, Barley. My father was sent to prison by gray men. He was murdered by men who wore gray uniforms. Gray men ruined my beautiful profession and take care or they will ruin you too.”
Klaus Maria Brandauer - Dante

“I'll tell you how this game works, Daniel. We're the cops, we get to ask the questions. You're the suspect, you get to complain about your civil liberties, perhaps get shot, maybe even killed. And it has to stay like that Daniel, otherwise everything falls out of balance.”

Robert Morgan - Melbourne Detective 2

“- Verna McLaughlin: What'd your father do?
- Roy Parmenter: Cop.
- Verna McLaughlin: Good cop or bad cop?
- Roy Parmenter: Bad cop... Wouldn't kiss ass. Good father.”
Loretta Devine - Verna McLaughlin
Sir Sidney Poitier - Roy Parmenter

“- Brian O'Conner: Nice crib, sarge. It's a lot better than that last place you confiscated.
- Sgt. Tanner: Eddie Fisher built it for Elizabeth Taylor back in the fifties.
- Brian O'Conner: See? Even the cops in Hollywood are Hollywood.”
Paul William Walker IV - Brian O'Conner
Ted Levine - Sgt. Tanner

“I know. It's a free country, I ain't got the right. But I got a badge. What do you got? Things are tough all over. Beat it.”

Simon Oakland - Schrank

“- Farva: Give me a double bacon cheeseburger.
- Dimpus Burger Guy: [into mic] Double bacon cheeseburger. It's for a cop.
- Farva: What the hell's that all about? You gonna spit in it now?
- Dimpus Burger Guy: No, I just told him that so he makes it good.
[into mic]
- Dimpus Burger Guy: Don't spit in that cop's burger.
- Farva: Yeah, thanks.”
Kevin Heffernan - Farva
Charlie Finn - Dimpus Burger Guy

“- Ed Hocken: They can't kick you off the force, Frank! It's just not fair!
- Frank Drebin: I know, Ed. Life isn't always fair. Just think. The next time I shoot someone, I could be arrested.”
George Kennedy - Ed Hocken
Leslie William Nielsen - Frank Drebin