- Chief of Police: If I see you two back in here under arrest again, then I seriously will charge you with disturbing the law!
- Felix Ungar: Don't you mean "disturbing the peace"?
- Chief of Police: No, it's only the law you're disturbing.

Richard Riehle - Chief of Police
Jack Lemmon - Felix Ungar

“The street is the only thing that matters. Court is for uptown people with suits, money, lawyers with three names. If you got cash you can buy court justice. But on the street, justice has no price. She's blind where the judge sits but she's not blind out here. Out here the bitch got eyes.”
Frank Medrano - Fat Mancho

“I lived outside the law, but only outlaws didn't judge me.”
Robert De Niro - Fred Blake

“- Greta: He knocked over another ATM. This time at knife point. He needs your legal advice.
- Fletcher Reede: [picking up phone and shouting] Stop breaking the law, asshole!”
Anne Haney - Greta
Jim Carrey - Fletcher Reede

“I appreciate your concern for the dignity of the court 007. Unfortunately, the man is a tax-paying citizen and entitled by our constitution to try and manipulate the legal system like everybody else.”

Joe Spano - Judge Pincus