Police quotes

“You have the right to remain silent... and all that other shit.”

Joe Don Baker - Deputy Sheriff Thomas Jefferson Geronimo III

“If you shoot someone in the head with a .45 every time you kill somebody, it becomes like your fingerprint, see? But if you strangle one, stab another, and one you cut up, and one you don't, then the police don't know what to do. They think you're four different people. What they really want, what makes their job so much easier, is pattern. What...” (continue)(continue reading)
Michael Rooker - Henry

“- Chief Sterns: We are presently executing a plan of redeployment that will minimize response time while maximizing coordination between patrol units and a decentralized networking scheme.
- April O'Neil: I'm not sure I understood all of that, Chief Sterns. Would you mind repeating it, in English, perhaps?”
Raymond Serra - Chief Sterns
Judith Hoag - April O'Neil

“- Tony: You won't hurt me.
- John McClane: Oh, yeah? Why not?
- Tony: Because you're a policeman. There are rules for policemen.
- John McClane: Yeah. That's what my captain keeps telling me.”
Andreas Wisniewski - Tony
Bruce Willis - John McClane

“Now Jack, a cop is a guy, and sometimes a guy steps on his dick. Is that what happened here? Were you pressing too hard and stepped on your dick?”
Kevin Tighe - Blake Wilson

“- Arresting Officer: Sir, have you been drinking?
- Ernest Dalby: Drinking? No, no, no. It was poured all over me.
- Arresting Officer: Sheriff, pour him into the backseat.”
Ronn Carroll - Arresting Officer
Donald Symington - Ernest Dalby

“- Paul McDaggett: How may I help you, officer?
- Robocop: By resisting arrest.”
John Castle - Paul McDaggett
Robert John Burke - Robocop

“- Tony Carlson: I play detective. You play lady in distress.
- Gloria Mundy: Hey, wait a minute. It's my ass they're after.
- Tony Carlson: I'm sorry. You're right. That was a stupid, glib, chauvinist remark and I apologize. It is your ass they're after, and it's my job to see to it that... I get there first.”
Chevy Chase - Tony Carlson
Goldie Hawn - Gloria Mundy

“I know we're Valley detectives so we're not all that bright, but how stupid does he think we are?”

Keith Carradine - Detective Creighton

“I don't like creeps any more than you do. But I can't do anything about them. See, I'm a cop. But you, you shoot 'em.”

Ed Lauter - Richard Shriker

“- Mrs. Bickerman: Murders and rapes in the city, people bomb planes, can the police stop 'em? No! But feed one little cow to a crocodile...
- Sheriff Hank Keough: You're gonna stay right here until the police show. You're under full house arrest.
- Mrs. Bickerman: Thank you, officer fuck-meat!”
Betty Marion White - Mrs. Delores Bickerman
Brendan Gleeson - Sheriff Hank Keough

“- Watty Watts: Well, I've been livin' the straight and narrow so why don't you take your chicken-fried, crypto-fascist ass, out of my fuckin' house before I call the cops.
- Ranger X: We are the cops, shit brain.”
Gil Bellows - Watty Watts
Michael Bowen - Ranger X

- Norman Spencer: I'm going to have the police check on the house while I'm gone.
- Claire Spencer: Oh great! "Could you check in on my wife? She's hearing voices!". Yeah, wait until that gets around.
Harrison Ford - Norman Spencer
Michelle Pfeiffer - Claire Spencer

“I'm the chief of police, sport. I can do whatever I want. Like for example if I were to run a blood test on you tonight and the results made you look like Christian Slater on New Year's Eve, do you think anyone would question me?”

John Ritter - Chief Warren Kincaid

“I'm not gonna bullshit you, all right? I don't give a good fuck what you know, or don't know, but I'm gonna torture you anyway, regardless. Not to get information. It's amusing, to me, to torture a cop. You can say anything you want cause I've heard it all before. All you can do is pray for a quick death, which you ain't gonna get.”

Michael Madsen - Mr. Blonde

“Twenty-five years I'm a cop in the worst goddamn precinct in Cleveland. Niggers shoot arrows at me and the hillbillies throw dogs off the roofs at me and I'm even shot at on two separate occasions by my own men, but none of these bastards ever come as close to killing me as my own goddamn wife and her goddamn road maps and her wrong turns and...” (continue)(continue reading)
Russ Grieve - Big Bob Carter

“You see these little oak leaves? They're silver. That means I'm a lieutenant colonel. If they were gold, then I'd be a major! You understand?”

Sir Sean Connery - Lt. Col. Alan Caldwell

“Hey, this is the police. Move your busted-ass vehicle. Move, move, move, move. This is the LAPD. We'll pop one in your ass. We got guns and shit.”
Martin Lawrence - Miles Logan

“They got married, and the cops found out and... well, you know cops. That kinda ended it. They still write, though. Well, he writes. She's still learnin'. Ah, it's no big deal, you know, it's over. He's not allowed into Mississippi anymore, and she wanted to raise the kid there, and... between you and me, I think that's for the best.”

Kevin Heffernan - Grogan

“- Jake Lo: Great, more cops.
- Agent Stuart: We are with the FBI, this is agent Wesley and I am agent Stewart.
- Jake Lo: Ohh cops in suits.”
Brandon Lee - Jake Lo
Raymond J. Barry - Agent Stuart

“- Matthew Bennell: I'll get the police.
- Telephone Operator: Police.
- Matthew Bennell: Officer, I'd like to report four bodies in my backyard.
- Telephone Operator: Wait right there Mr. Bennell.
- Matthew Bennell: How do you know my name?”
Donald Sutherland - Matthew Bennell

“- Dr. Feelgood: You ain't got nothing on me!
- Danny McGavin: I got handcuffs on you.”
T. Rodgers - Dr. Feelgood
Sean Penn - Danny McGavin

“- Charlie Chan: Wait here, observe closely.
- Lee Chan: Observe what?
- Charlie Chan: Don't know. Good detective never ask what and why until after he see.”
Warner Oland - Charlie Chan
Keye Luke - Lee Chan

“For a second I thought I was dead. But, when I heard all the noise, I knew they were cops. Only cops talk that way. If they'd been wiseguys, I wouldn't have heard a thing. I would've been dead.”

Ray Liotta - Henry Hill

“- Hitchhiker: Just asking if you're going to be a policeman like your old man here?
- Martin: Yeah, yeah, a policeman or a violinist.”
Saul Rubinek - Hitchhiker
Justin Henry - Martin