20 Movie Quotes about Detectives (+ Sound Clips)

Updated: Oct 26, 2025

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

1 Famous detective solves baffling disappearance.

Barrie Ingham as Basil The Mouse Detective in The Great Mouse Detective

2 The greatest detective in all mousedom!

Barrie Ingham as Basil The Mouse Detective in The Great Mouse Detective

3 You're the private detective. You figure it out.

Bob Hoskins as Eddie Valiant in Who Framed Roger Rabbit

4 I'm Detective John Kimble.

Arnold Schwarzenegger as Detective John Kimble in Kindergarten Cop

5 This must be the sloppiest bust I've ever seen in my entire career on the force. Detective Howard Lang - undercover.

Arnold Schwarzenegger as Howard Langston in Jingle All the Way (1996)

6 A private ear? Now I've heard everything.

Rabbit From Winnie The Pooh in The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh

7 I'll just check with the boys down at the crime lab. They got four more detectives working on the case. They got us working in shifts!

Jeff Bridges as Jeffrey "The Dude" Lebowski in The Big Lebowski

8 Thanks to that miserable second-rate detective, Basil of Baker Street.

Barrie Ingham as Basil The Mouse Detective in The Great Mouse Detective

9 You're a detective. You're supposed to be able to tackle anything. Detect!

Harry H. Corbett as Sergeant Sidney Bung in Carry On Screaming!

10 I never met a detective before.

Sean Connery as James Bond in Dr. No

20 Movie Quotes about Detectives (+ Sound Clips)

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