181 Movie Quotes about Crime (+ Sound Clips) - page 10

Updated: Apr 8, 2026

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

91 You know what probation is? -Yeah, sure. A knife sticking in your back.

Van Heflin as Sam Masterson; Lizabeth Scott as Antonia "Toni" Marachek in The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946)

92 Sounds just like a poem. If it rhymed, it would rhyme with murder.

Kirk Douglas as Walter O'Neil in The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946)

93 Prisons are bulging with dummies who wonder how they got there.

Quote from The Big Heat (1953)

94 Would you like to examine the body? -I would be delighted. -This way, sir.

Peter Sellers as Inspector Jacques Clouseau; George Sanders as Monsieur Benjamin Ballon in A Shot in the Dark (1964)

95 Maria Gambrelli did not kill those four people. -Which four people? -The last four people. Someone else killed those four people. I was with her all the time. And whoever he is, he's the same man who killed the first four people.

Peter Sellers as Inspector Jacques Clouseau in A Shot in the Dark (1964)

96 Watch out for that dolly. She's a hardened criminal, I hear.

Mickey Rooney as Kris Kringle in Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town (1970)

97 It's my hypotenuse that Owl turned to a life of crime because he grew up misunderstood.

Paul Winchell as Tigger in The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh

98 Oh, Pooh Bear, why did you do it? -I give up, Piglet. Why did I do it? By the way, what exactly is it that I did, exactly?

Jim Cummings as Winnie The Pooh in The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh

99 Said anything yet? -Yeah. We're innocent. -Till the DA offers them a deal. -He already has: Regular or extra crispy. He was either referring to fried chicken or the electric chair.

Quote from Clear and Present Danger

100 Jack. -Yeah. -Computer theft is a serious crime. -So are crimes against the Constitution.

Harrison Ford as Jack Ryan in Clear and Present Danger