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

“- 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

- 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 DEA problem.”

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

Denzel Washington - Alonzo
Ethan Hawke - Jake

“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

“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

“- 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

“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