Police quotes

“I ain't never been glad to see the cops before. But I was sure happy then. Happier than a runaway slave, papers and all.”
Faizon Love - Robin Harris

“When I'm a Triad, the cops want to kill me and when I'm a cop, everyone wants to kill me! I'm a scared man.”
Tony Leung Chiu-Wai - Alan

“A quick lesson in lying. See, this is what us real cops do: We study liars. Example: If I ask you a question about something visual, like your favorite color, your eyes go up and to the left. Neurophysiology tells us your eyes go in that direction, because you're accessing the visual cortex. So you're telling the truth. If your eyes go up and...” (continue)(continue reading)
Samuel L. Jackson - Danny Roman

“This case is dirty, I feel it in the cojones you know?”
Luis Guzmán - Luis Valentin

- Investigator Fujitsuka Natsuo: Isn't someone going to hear that and call the police?
- Detective Tony Costas: No, you see in this neighborhood they don't call the police, they just yell "Turn that shit off".

Pat Morita - Investigator Fujitsuka Natsuo
Jay Leno - Detective Tony Costas

“- Jeff Blue: I never get to be the bad cop.
- Jane Blue: That's because you could never keep a straight face.”
Dennis Quaid - Jeff Blue
Kathleen Turner - Jane Blue

“- Sgt. Al Powell: I think he's a cop. Maybe not LAPD, but he's definitely a badge.
- Deputy Police Chief Dwayne T. Robinson: How do you know that?
- Sgt. Al Powell: A hunch, things he said. Like being able to spot a phony ID.
- Deputy Police Chief Dwayne T. Robinson: Jesus Christ, Powell, he could be a fucking bartender for all we know.”
Reginald VelJohnson - Sgt. Al Powell
Paul Gleason - Deputy Police Chief Dwayne T. Robinson

“What you are gonna do gentlemen, is you're gonna make my word good. The target is cops, the weapon is indictments. And I don't give one infinitesimal fuck if they are indictments that will stick or not. Because to a cop any indictment means a departmental trial, which is a euphemism for finished. End of gun, badge, pension, and pals. So I want...” (continue)(continue reading)

Bobby Alto - Mr. Kanter

“- Lou Peckinpaugh: Are you sure the police didn't follow you here?
- Georgia Merkle: I'm positive. They came with me.
- Lou Peckinpaugh: This is definitely our last date, Georgia.”
Peter Falk - Lou Peckinpaugh
Marsha Mason - Georgia Merkle

“- N.Y. Traffic Control Cop: Excuse me! What are you doin' to that boy?
- Remo Williams: Oh, uh, unnecessary use of the horn, Officer.
- N.Y. Traffic Control Cop: Well, it'll be unnecessary use of my nightstick on your thick skull if you don't let him go!
- Remo Williams: Whatever happened to police courtesy and that kind of stuff, huh?
- N.Y....” (continue)(continue reading)

Davenia McFadden - N.Y. Traffic Control Cop

“- Arresting Officer: [to Man] Sir, what's your name?
- Pedro: Whut? I told you my name, man!
- Arresting Officer: [to Man] Sir... what's your name?
- Pedro: [to Man] Hey man! The dude wants to know your name, man!
- Pedro: [Man vomits onto the floor of the car] Uuhhh - His name is Raalllph, man!”
Arthur Roberts - Arresting Officer
Cheech Marin - Pedro De Pacas

“- Skank: Man, I smell a cop! Do you smell a cop?
- Gutterboy: Uh, I smell french fries, Skank, but that don't make no sense, huh?”
David Sherrill - Skank
Jamie Bozian - Gutterboy

“Most cops' ethics are like the car they drive... black and white.”
Jack Nicholson - Jake Gittes

“- Sheri: You know what the best part about making it with a cop is?
- Jack Grimaldi: No.
- Sheri: You got two guns. One for me and one for them.”
Juliette Lewis - Sheri
Gary Leonard Oldman - Jack Grimaldi

“- Jack Traven: Stop! L.A.P.D! Get out of the car!
- Jaguar Owner: Hey man, this is my car, I own this car, it's not stolen.
- Jack Traven: [pulls gun out and points it at him] It is now. Move over.”
Keanu Reeves - Jack Traven
Glenn Plummer - Jaguar Owner

“- Captain Tweedy: Find anybody around there, throw 'em out.
- Smitty: Single-handed?
- Captain Tweedy: Oh, use both hands, I don't care.”
Frank Orth - Captain Tweedy
George Guhl - Smitty

“- Judge Flatt: Now is it true that you discharged your weapon, Officer?
- Officer Raymer: Your Honor, it was a warning shoot.
- Judge Flatt: Um hmm, you know who you warned? A little old lady sitting on her commode 2 blocks away.”
Philip Bosco - Judge Flatt
Philip Seymour Hoffman - Officer Raymer

“- Ron White: Are you really a policeman?
- Village People: Policeman: You don't know Black Irish when you see it?”
Caitlyn Jenner - Ron White
Ray Simpson - Village People: Policeman

“- Chief Sterns: You expect me to waste precious manpower because some immigrants are reminded of something that supposedly happened, years ago in Japan!
- April O'Neil: Have you got anything else?”
Raymond Serra - Chief Sterns
Judith Hoag - April O'Neil

“- Dr. Margo Green: So, what did you do?
- Lt. Vincent D'Agosta: Took the gun away from him and beat the shit out of him. Anyway, the forensics told me later that the bullet's perfect. It should have fired. I should be dead.
- Dr. Margo Green: So in other woods, a miracle of physics?
- Lt. Vincent D'Agosta: Maybe just plain, old-fashioned good luck.”

Penelope Ann Miller - Dr. Margo Green
Tom Sizemore - Lt. Vincent D'Agosta

“- Barney Coopersmith: You don't tip FBI men!
- Vincent 'Vinnie' Antonelli: Sure you do!”

Rick Moranis - Barney Coopersmith
Steve Martin - Vincent 'Vinnie' Antonelli

“He's no fed. Fed's are neat. Whoever this guy is, he wouldn't last a week with the feds.”
Frank Military - Bobby Burns

“- Dr. Feelgood: Hey man, these handcuffs are too tight.
- Danny McGavin: Well they ain't built for comfort, pal.”
T. Rodgers - Dr. Feelgood
Sean Penn - Danny McGavin

“- RoboCop: You are under arrest. You have the right to remain silent. Anything you say can and will be used against you in a court of law.
- Anne Lewis: He's dead, Murphy.
- RoboCop: You have the right to an attorney...
- Anne Lewis: You're reading Miranda to a corpse!
- RoboCop: I'm having... trouble.”
Peter Weller - Robocop
Nancy Allen - Anne Lewis

“A good cop will never let you know he knows you're full of shit.”
Robert Forster - Max Cherry