151 Movie Quotes about Cops (+ Sound Clips) - page 4

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.

31 Well, I'm not much of a cop, really. More like a civilian trapped in a cop's body.

Paul Soter as Carl Foster in Super Troopers

32 Why no guns? -We have every policeman on the area on us. We'll use bows and arrows. Silent and efficient.

Quote from The Green Hornet (1966)

33 It's a term you use, baby. Screw you is a cop term.

Martin Lawrence as Marcus Burnett in Bad Boys (1995)

34 We're calling all cars here, baby. Only I don't know where we need them.

Joe Pantoliano as Conrad Howard in Bad Boys (1995)

35 Experience has taught me never to trust a policeman. Just when you think one's all right, he turns legit.

Quote from The Asphalt Jungle (1950)

36 I don't want a gun, thank you. I haven't carried a gun since my 20s. You carry a gun, you shoot a policeman.

Quote from The Asphalt Jungle (1950)

37 I can't read or write, you know that. -Listen, you don't read and write a man into jail.

Walter Pidgeon as Will Cantrell; George Gabby Hayes in Dark Command (1940)

38 Officer. I swear I'm clean. I'm just waiting here for a friend. You gonna bust me for nothing, man?

Harvey Keitel as Sport in Taxi Driver (1976)

39 What's more important to you, Officer? Arresting me or the life of a human being?

Tobin Bell as John Kramer "Jigsaw"; John Kramer Jigsaw in Saw (2004)

40 I told you, he's not a cop. He's a bottom feeder, just like you!

Cary Elwes as Lawrence Gordon in Saw (2004)