151 Movie Quotes about Cops (+ Sound Clips) - page 5

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.

41 I saw the commotion here the other day. You're either a cop or public enemy number one. -Some people might say both.

Clint Eastwood as Inspector "Dirty" Harry Callahan; Sondra Locke as Jennifer Spencer; Inspector Dirty Harry Callahan in Sudden Impact (1983)

42 So many cops, you'd think they were giving away donuts.

Ernie Hudson as Sgt. Albrecht in The Crow (1994)

43 I guess that's all those guys have to do. Give out tickets. Why aren't they out chasin' burglars?

George O'Hanlon as George Jetson in The Jetsons

44 You know what he's doing? He's good-cop, bad-coppin' us. He knows I'm old guard. You're fringe. He's gonna bear down on me and soft-soap you.

Philip Seymour Hoffman as George Willis Jr. in Scent of a Woman (1992)

45 What would the cops want with my money? -They thought it was heroin.

Quote from Harlem Nights

46 Yeah? Well, there are a couple of storks waiting for you. -What? -C-o-p-s. Did I spell it right?

Lionel Stander as Curly in The Last Gangster

47 You know, a good cop will never let you know that he knows you're full of _.

Robert Forster as Max Cherry in Jackie Brown

48 Cops can't locate him, huh? -They don't have your winning personality.

Robert Forster as Max Cherry; Tommy Lister in Jackie Brown

49 They want us to look big so they can look big when they catch us.

Warren Beatty as Clyde Barrow in Bonnie and Clyde (1967)

50 You want to take a lesson from Junior. He doesn't worry. He doesn't even know what a policeman is.

Quote from Dimension X