Police quotes

“- Book Man: You! You're a cop, you gotta help me!
- Larry Doyle: Sorry, mein fuhrer, I'm off duty.”
Don Perry - Book Man
Kevin Pollak - Larry Doyle

“If you got rid of every cop with vaguely racist leanings, then you'd have three cops left, and all o' them are gonna hate the fags, so what are ya gonna do, y'know?”
Woody Harrelson - Willoughby

“- Lt. Bender: Give the bag to Bozo, drop the gun and put your hands in the air!
- Earl Mott: Who said that?
- Lt. Walters: This could very well be the stupidest person on the face of the earth. Perhaps we should shoot him.
- Lt. Bender: It's the police department!”
Art Evans - Lt. Bender
Bill Pullman - Earl
Clarence Felder - Lt. Walters

“- Streebek: You know, Friday, we're allowed to go 55... On some occasions, even faster.
- Friday: I'm well aware of the federally mandated speed limit, Streebeck. But, did it ever occur to you that, by going eight miles an hour slower, we might save some gasoline and ease the burden on the poor taxpayers out there who pay our salaries?
-...” (continue)(continue reading)
Tom Hanks - Streebek
Dan Aykroyd - Friday

“- Chief Insp. Charles Dreyfus: The beggar was the lookout man for the gang.
- Insp. Jacques Clouseau: That is impossible. How can a blind man be a lookout?
- Chief Insp. Charles Dreyfus: How can an idiot be a police officer?”
Herbert Lom - Chief Insp. Charles Dreyfus
Peter Sellers - Clouseau

“There's a reason you separate military and the police. One fights the enemies of the state, the other serves and protects the people. When the military becomes both, then the enemies of the state tend to become the people.”
Edward James Olmos - Admiral William Adama

- 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

“Listen, we got a problem. A DEAproblem.”

Bryan Cranston - Walter White

“- Carter: This ain't no democracy.
- Lee: Yes, it is.
- Carter: No, it ain't. This is the United States of James Carter. I'm the president, I'm the emperor, I'm the king. I'm Michael Jackson, you Tito. Your ass belongs to me.”

Chris Tucker - Carter
Jackie Chan - Lee

“The freak with the top hat is leaving with the basketball.”
Stacy Keach - The Narcs: Sergeant Stedenko

“- Danny Witwer: I worked homicide before federal. This is what we call an orgy of evidence. You know how many orgies I had as a homicidecop?
- Fletcher: How many?
- Danny Witwer: None.”
Colin Farrell - Danny Witwer
Neal McDonough - Fletcher

“- Officer Allen: Put your hands high in the air where we can see them! Your hands up!
- Policeman: He's got something in his hands. Looks like knives.
- Officer Allen: Drop your weapons! I repeat: drop your weapons! I'm asking you one more time this is your last warning, drop your weapons! If you fail to do so, we'll have to open fire! Don't...” (continue)(continue reading)
Dick Anthony Williams - Officer Allen

“- Detective Belsik: There were people who saw him.
- Lorenzo: Well, they're wrong. He don't know nothin'.
- Detective Belsik: Listen, Mr. Anello, we could do things the nice way or we could do things the hard way. Alright?”

Mitch Kolpan - Detective Belsik
Robert De Niro - Lorenzo

“- Alonzo: All right, when's the last time you did a felony stop?
- Jake: Uh, couple weeks ago?
- Alonzo: Good, you needpractice.
- Jake: They look like collegekids.
- Alonzo: They're gonna get their education today.”

Denzel Washington - Alonzo
Ethan Hawke - Jake

“- Feathers: How does a... how does a man get to be a sheriff?
- John T. Chance: Gets lazy. Gets tired of selling his gun all over. Decides to sell it in one place.
- Feathers: I'd say you made a poor sale.
- John T. Chance: A lot of people around here'll agree with you.
- Feathers: But... it's still a sale and it's too late to back out.”
Angie Dickinson - Feathers
John Wayne - Sheriff John T. Chance

“Who is the boss? The cop or the law?”
Charlton Heston - Mike Vargas

“A policeman's job is only easy in a police state.”
Charlton Heston - Mike Vargas

“- Pete Menzies: You're a killer.
- Hank Quinlan: Partly. I'm a cop.
- Pete Menzies: Yeah, yeah, yeah. Drunk and crazy as you must have been when you strangled him. I guess you were somehow thinking of your wife, the way she was strangled.
- Hank Quinlan: I'm always thinking of her, drunk or sober. What else is there to think about, except my job...” (continue)(continue reading)
Joseph Calleia - Police Sergeant Pete Menzies
Orson Welles - Police Captain Hank Quinlan

“- Michael: I trust you.
- Andre Davis: Why's that?
- Andre Davis: Because you're the only cop who hasn't tried to shoot me first.”
Stephan James - Michael
Chadwick Boseman - Andre Davis

“- Johnny Clay: A friend of mine will be stopping by tomorrow to drop something off for me. He's a cop.
- Joe Piano: A cop? That's a funny kind of a friend.
- Johnny Clay: Well, he's a funny kind of a cop.”
Sterling Hayden - Johnny Clay
Tito Vuolo - Joe Piano

“We're not just black, we're cops too! We'll pull ourselves over later!”
Martin Lawrence - Marcus

“Pearl Harbor is the greatest intelligence failure in American history.”
Patrick Wilson - Edwin Layton

“Experience has taught me never to trust a policeman. Just when you think one's all right, he turns legit.”
Sam Jaffe - Doc Erwin Riedenschneider

“People are being cheated, robbed, murdered, raped. And that goes on 24 hours a day, every day in the year. And that's not exceptional, that's usual. It's the same in every city in the modern world. But suppose we had no police force, good or bad. Suppose we had... just silence. Nobody to listen, nobody to answer. The battle's finished. The...” (continue)(continue reading)
John McIntire - Police Commissioner Hardy

It's always "somebody tipped them". Never "the cops are smart".
Virginia Mayo - Verna Jarrett