181 Movie Quotes about Crime (+ Sound Clips) - page 15

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.

141 Hold it. Now let me explain. I make a good livin' by stealin' and cheatin' and shopliftin', anything at all that brings in some money. And what's wrong with that, huh?

Quote from Mysterious Footworks of Kung Fu

142 Something about human nature. It happens all the time. Men show up and confess to crimes they committed five, ten, twenty years ago. -No kidding? -Sure. All of a sudden they get a conscience. Starts to get them down and a kind of corrosion sets in.

Cornel Wilde as Griff Marat in Shockproof (1949)

143 What racket you two in? Badger game? With a smart-looking tomato like her, it'd be a cinch.

Quote from Shockproof (1949)

144 Oh, it gets worse. Next week, your daughter attempts to break him out of jail, and she gets sent up for 20 years.

Christopher Lloyd as Dr. Emmett Brown in Back to the Future Part II

145 Mobster, for instance, as applied to me, is more colorful than accurate. I've always had a preference for legitimate enterprises. -With a little gambling racket on the side.

Humphrey Bogart as Capt. Warren "Rip" Murdock in Dead Reckoning (1947)

146 One to five, they gave me. One to five years, that is. -That's a long jolt. -It's forever.

Lizabeth Scott as Antonia "Toni" Marachek in The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946)

147 We caught up with Larry before he got to the airport. He was in such a hurry, it took a couple of slugs to stop him. What's left of him is on the way to the river.

Lee Marvin as Vince Stone in The Big Heat (1953)

148 Why do you think we've allowed the casino to stay open? Because a smart cop doesn't arrest a purse snatcher if the little thief will lead him to the bigger crime.

Quote from Gilda (1946)

149 I held him in my arms and kissed him. -Oh, I see. Then it was murder.

Groucho Marx as Rufus T. Firefly; Margaret Dumont as Mrs. Gloria Teasdale in Duck Soup (1933)

150 He's a hoodlum. -Because I have lunch with him, that is not a crime.

Quote from The Big Combo (1955)