Police quotes

“- Maryann: How did you find me?
- Ray Hughes: I'm a detective. I find people all the time.”
Tracy Reed - Maryann
Gregory Hines - Ray Hughes

“- Moreno: So tell me something. How long have you been a pig, I mean, a police officer?
- Jake: I've been a pig for 19 months.
- Moreno: 19 months? You like it?
- Jake: I should have been a fireman.”
Noel Gugliemi - Moreno
Ethan Hawke - Jake

“- State Trooper: Pullover!
- Harry Dunne: No, it's a cardigan, but thanks for noticing.”

Harland Williams - State Trooper
Jeff Daniels - Harry Dunne

“- Gillian Bromley: It doesn't trouble you that blackmail is, in fact, against the law?
- Chief Insp. Cyril Willis: Policemen are constantly breaking the law. It's one of the many ways we have of upholding it.”
Lesley-Anne Down - Gillian Bromley
David Niven - Chief Insp. Cyril Willis

“- Gru: I have accepted a new job.
- Margo: Whoa. Really?
- Gru: Yes, I have been recruited by a top secret agency to go undercover and save the world.”
Steve Carrell - Gru
Miranda Cosgrove - Margo

“- Todd Bowden: Bergen-Belsen, January '43 to June '43. Auschwitz, June '43 to June '44. Then you went to Patin. After that you disappeared, but then in 1965 you were spotted in West Berlin.
- Kurt Dussander: Listen, boy... I don't have time for this game. Now get out of here before I call the police.
- Todd Bowden: Call them if you want. I'm...” (continue)(continue reading)
Brad Renfro - Todd Bowden
Sir Ian McKellen - Kurt Dussander

“Very strange city. The crime is organized; the police is not.”

Arnold Schwarzenegger - Ivan Danko

“- Lieutenant Thaddeus Harris: What the hell are you doing here?
- Cadet Laverne Hooks: I wanna be a police officer.
- Lieutenant Thaddeus Harris: What? I can't hear you-u?
- Cadet Laverne Hooks: [whispering] I wanna be a police officer.
- Lieutenant Thaddeus Harris: Don't unpack.”
G.W. Bailey - Captain Harris
Marion Ramsey - Laverne Hooks

“- Captain Briggs: In more than 30 years of police work, this is the single, most outrageous transgression of authority I ever heard about. What the hell did you think you were doing?
- Harry Callahan: My job.”

Bradford Dillman - Captain Briggs
Clint Eastwood - Harry Callahan

“When I first heard the name Clouseau, he was a little nothing. Just another police officer in a small village far from Paris. He was the village idiot, I think.”

Kevin Kline - Dreyfus

“- Nora McPhee: Can't you stop being a cop for five minutes and just be a friend?
- Brian Costello: No, that's why I don't have too many friends.
- Nora McPhee: Well, if it's one less you want, you're doing a terrific job..”
Marsha Mason - Nora McPhee
Donald Sutherland - Brian Costello

“I put evil men behind bars, but the law has miles of red tape and loopholes for these cocksuckers to slip through.”

Willem Dafoe - Paul Smecker

“Have you ever dialed 9-1-1? It's like trying to get a mortgage.”
Woody Allen - David Dobel

“- Lt. Gen. Joseph Campbell: You're going to have to decide on this one, Paul - Are you a soldier or a policeman?
- Brenner: I'm a soldier, sir.
- Lt. Gen. Joseph Campbell: I'm counting on it.”
James Cromwell - General Campbell
John Travolta - Paul Brenner

“Interpol? Fucking Interpol? I'm not going to fucking prison! I'm not cut out for that shit. Have you seen these fucking arms, man? These wet noodles will prevent very few prison rapes.”
Jay Baruchel - Francie Tobin

“I am the police, and I'm here to arrest you. You've broken the law. I did not write the law. I may even disagree with the law but I will enforce it. No matter how you plead, cajole, beg or attempt to stir my sympathies, nothing you do will stop me from placing you in a steel cage with gray bars. If you run away I will chase you. If you fight me...” (continue)(continue reading)
Jake Gyllenhaal - Brian Taylor

“There are three things cops never do. They don't vote democrat, they don't drive Cadillacs, and they never use personal vehicles.”
Tom Cruise - Jack Reacher

“- Franck Dotzler: If you go down this road, the LAPD, the FBI, the CIA ... they're all gonna come for you. They'll find you. And they'll stop you.
- Bryan Mills: Good luck.”
Forest Whitaker - Franck Dotzler
Liam Neeson - Bryan Mills

“There's some good and there's some bad news. The good news is you're right - I'm a cop and I've gotta take you in. The bad news is I've been suspended and I don't give a fuck.”
James Woods - Lloyd Hopkins

“- Carey Mahoney: Thompson, why you do want to be a cop?
- Cadet Karen Thompson: I like to dress as a man.
- Carey Mahoney: Me too.”
Steve Guttenberg - Carey Mahoney
Kim Cattrall - Karen Thompson

“- Brian Taylor: I don't want to die here, dude.
- Mike Zavala: You're not gonna die here. You're not gonna die. God loves cops.”
Jake Gyllenhaal - Brian Taylor
Michael Peña - Mike Zavala

“- Frances Carlson: You know, I can't imagine you guys teaching. I mean, is it the same old stuff we got?
- Mike Donnelly: Well, I start the year with the Boston Police Strike.
- Irene Rosenblue: They let you teach that?
- Mike Donnelly: They let you teach just about anything, so long as you keep the students from knifing each other.”
Maggie Cousineau - Frances
Bruce MacDonald - Mike
Jean Passanante - Irene

“That's the second rule of police work. If you want to keep a secret, don't tell the boss.”
Sir Sean Connery - Jim Malone

“- Mr. Pink: You kill anybody?
- Mr. White: A few cops.
- Mr. Pink: No real people?
- Mr. White: Just cops.”

Steve Buscemi - Mr. Pink
Harvey Keitel - Mr. White

“They call me Harry. Or Detective Boyd. Or the over-bearing one the other cops can't stand. Depends on who you talk to, I guess.”
Michael Paré - Harry