151 Movie Quotes about Cops (+ Sound Clips)

Updated: Feb 17, 2026

Memorable quotes about cops, selected from famous or less known movies by Movie-Sounds.org's visitors, accompanied by short mp3 and wav audio samples.

1 Who's the popinjay?

Peter Ustinov as Captain Blackbeard in Blackbeard's Ghost (1968)

2 How can an idiot be a policeman? Answer me that. -It's very simple. All he has to do is enlist.

Peter Sellers as Inspector Jacques Clouseau; Herbert Lom as Chief Inspector Charles Dreyfus in The Return of the Pink Panther (1975)

3 You see, I got this problem. Cops don't like me, so I don't like cops.

Kurtwood Smith as Clarence Boddicker in RoboCop (1987)

4 You know, if I wasn't in uniform, I'd split your skull with the butt of this revolver faster than you could say police brutality.

Quote from Vacation (1983)

5 Nobody talks to us like that when we been drinkin', especially no dust-covered country cop.

George Peppard as Col. John Hannibal Smith in The A-Team

6 Cops? You're not cops. You're killers. You're murderers killing for money.

Quote from The A-Team

7 You policemen are always in such a hurry. As if dead men hadn't all eternity.

Claude Rains as Sir John Talbot in The Wolf Man (1941)

8 Yeah. 9:00. And listen... No guns, no cops, no tricks.

Ted De Corsia as Joseph Rico in The Enforcer (1951)

9 How do I know you're the last cop I'm gonna have to grease?

Al Pacino as Tony Montana in Scarface (1983)

10 Supposin' the cops finger us for a job and they start asking us questions about a murder in the area.

Quote from Home Alone (1990)