Police quotes

“- 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

- 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

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

“- 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 need practice.
- Jake: They look like college kids.
- Alonzo: They're gonna get their education today.”

Denzel Washington - Alonzo
Ethan Hawke - Jake

“- Christopher Cross: Hey, did you read this?
- Adele Cross: Read what?
- Christopher Cross: This murder in Queens. A man killed his wife with the window weight, put her body in the trunk, shipped her to California. It says here...
- Adele Cross: I've read the paper, thank you. He didn't get away with it, did he? He'll go to the chair, as he...” (continue) (continue reading)
Edward G. Robinson - Christopher Cross
Rosalind Ivan - Adele Cross

“- Marie: You made one mistake.
- Hank: It wasn't one mistake. I've been... unraveling, y'know? I don't sleep at night anymore. I freeze, I freeze up. My chest gets all tight, I can't breathe. Just...I panic. Ever since that Salamanca thing. Tuco Salamanca, if ever a scumbag deserved a bullet between the eyes... It changed me and I can't seem to...” (continue) (continue reading)

Betsy Brandt - Marie Schrader
Dean Norris - Hank Schrader

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

Bryan Cranston - Walter White

“We must protect the weak. The police represent strength. Men like me always defend the weak, whoever they are, whatever their situation. Never forget that, little one.”
Fernando Rey - Don Lope

“- Stella Atkins: But then you're not a marshal or a sheriff.
- Jeff Castle: He's a town tamer.
- Clint Tollinger: The difference is there are no rules in my end of the business except maybe one - never stay in one town too long.”
Karen Sharpe - Stella Atkins
John Lupton - Jeff Castle
Robert Mitchum - Clint Tollinger

“- Orange Bird Bartender: Are you a cop?
- Tony Lip: Do I look Irish?”
Ninja N. Devoe - Orange Bird Bartender
Viggo Mortensen - Tony Lip

“- Veronica: I'm not involved in Harry's business. I work for the teacher's union.
- Jamal Manning: I understand. Criminals are like cops. They don't bring their shit home.”
Viola Davis - Veronica
Brian Tyree Henry - Jamal Manning

“- Sherlock Holmes: Thank you, Lady Margaret. We'll be as unobtrusive as possible.
- Lady Margaret Carstairs: That would be a novelty from a policeman.”
Basil Rathbone - Sherlock Holmes
Mary Forbes - Lady Margaret Carstairs

“- John Hunt: I figured out who he is.
- Maureen: And?
- John Hunt: He's a guy... who is old... but used to be young... and he just really loves robbing banks.
- Maureen: That's it?
- John Hunt: That's it.
- Maureen: Just like you're a guy... who's a cop... who's gonna catch him.”

Casey Affleck - John Hunt
Tika Sumpter - Maureen

“We got the whole good cop/bad cop thing going on; except we're hookers.”
Sherri Shepherd - Lula

“- Jim Stone: [looks inside cylinder] This is full of cocaine.
- Mechanic: [laughing] Yeah.
- Jim Stone: This needs to be submitted to evidence.
- Mechanic: [stops laughing] Yes, and it will, I'm sorry.”
Nicolas Cage - Stone
Jeff Howard - Mechanic

“- Jim Stone: [indicating bail statement for $200,000 cash] What do you think?
- Jim's Father: Well, I think there's a lot more to making a cop than just paper.
-Jim Stone: Yes, but I just thought it was unusual.
- Jim's Father: It is ... You know, a good cop is going to look at it and know exactly what to do.”
Nicolas Cage - Stone
Jerry Lewis - Stone's Father

“- 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 homicide cop?
- Fletcher: How many?
- Danny Witwer: None.”
Colin Farrell - Danny Witwer
Neal McDonough - Fletcher

“It's true what they say: cops and women don't mix. It's like eating a spoonful of Drano; sure, it'll clean you out, but it'll leave you hollow inside.”
Leslie William Nielsen - Frank Drebin

“- Hansen: Couldn't we get this thing resolved quicker with F.B.I. or state help?
- Jesse Stone: The F.B.I. and state police bring the national media. You won't like this town when they're through with it.”

Jeremy Akerman - Hansen
Tom Selleck - Jesse Stone

“- Lookout: What's up man, you po-po nigga, what's up.
- Jeff Cole: I'm no fucking po-po.”

K.C. Collins - Lookout
Omar Epps - Jeff Cole

“You wanna be a big cop in a small town? Fuck off up the model village.”
Rafe Spall - DS Andy Cartwright

“It's not cool that you start showing up around here in your cop uniform, then people will start getting the impression that we're in trouble!”

Jeremy Sisto - Larry Pogue, Sr.

“We run from the cops, we run from Radames, we run from security guards, we run from old man Quiles in a fucking bullshit’s store when he comes at us with a bullshit gun. All we do is fuckin’ run, feel like I'm on a goddamn track team.”
2Pac - Bishop