“- Motorcycle Cop: Where's the fire?
- Dallas: [lying] This kid fell off his motorcycle, I'm taking him to the hospital.
- Motorcycle Cop: Is he hurt bad?
- Dallas: How should I know? I ain't no doc.
[Motorcycle Cop goes away]”

Ed Jackson - Motorcycle Cop
Matt Dillon - Dallas Winston

- Walter Crow Horse: License and registration?
- Ray Levoi: Kiss my ass.
- Walter Crow Horse: Hey, this is my jurisdiction now. And you were going 59 in a 55 zone.
- Ray Levoi: Let me see the radar.
- Walter Crow Horse: I don't need no radar, I can tell! I just listen to the wind; it said, "fifty-nine, nail him!".
Graham Greene - Walter Crow Horse
Val Kilmer - Ray Levoi

“- Cynthia Webb: Isn't this breaking and entering?
- Divinci: I don't know, I'm homicide, we don't learn that stuff.”

Lela Rochon - Cynthia Webb
Jim Belushi - Det. Frank Divinci

“- Sheriff Loomis: I've been waitin' to catch you guys in the act. Been waitin' and watchin'.
- Packard Walsh: Congratulations. You caught us talking. There's no law against that, is there officer? Unless of course I got my wires crossed and you caught us speaking without a permit.”
Randy Quaid - Sheriff Loomis
Nick Cassavetes - Packard Walsh

“- 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