18 Movie Quotes about Detectives (Sound Clips) - page 2

Last updated on: September 1, 2025

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

11 Are you being loyal or dumb? Or are you just covering up for him? -You say you're a detective. Find out.

Quote from Revenge of the Zombies (1943)

12 But of course, all great detectives have one thing in common. And you know what that is? Instinct. That rare ability to know immediately without having to stop and reason. And in my business, it can easily mean the difference between life and death.

Peter Sellers as Inspector Jacques Clouseau in The Return of the Pink Panther (1975)

13 I hope you locate the trouble, monsieur. -Madame, it is my business to locate trouble.

Peter Sellers as Inspector Jacques Clouseau in The Return of the Pink Panther (1975)

14 Yes. This is the New York City Police Department, Lieutenant Kojak, Manhattan South Detective Squad.

Telly Savalas as Lt. Theo Kojak in Kojak

15 That's no reason to make a great mystery out of it. You talk like a detective in a novel.

Quote from The Wolf Man (1941)

16 I'm not gonna shoot you. -Why not? -That was the old me. I was a little mixed-up at that time. Had a bad marriage and I just gave up smoking. I'm okay now. I'm a private detective.

Quote from The Jerk

17 I mean, inept! France's greatest detective! -It does test one's reality.

Quote from Trail of the Pink Panther (1982)

18 I'm a detective. A damn good detective. Finding people is my specialty, so naturally, I worked for the Nazis finding people. And, yes, some of them were Jews. But Jew Hunter? Just a name that stuck.

Quote from Inglourious Basterds