20 Movie Quotes about Detectives (+ Sound Clips) - page 2

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.

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

Gale Storm as Jennifer Rand; Robert Lowery as Larry Adams in 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 So you have turned detective, monsieur? -I have. -Very well, if it amuses you. But I advise you to confine your hobby to the entertainment of yourself and your friends.

Edgar Barrier as Raoul Dubert in Phantom of the Opera (1943)

15 Most exciting, this detective work. Most exciting. -Well, it's more than exciting to me. I had the honor of being suspected of the crime.

Claude Rains as Erique Claudin in Phantom of the Opera (1943)

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

Telly Savalas as Lt. Theo Kojak in Kojak

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

Lon Chaney Jr. as Larry Talbot in The Wolf Man (1941)

18 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.

Steve Martin as Navin R. Johnson in The Jerk

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

Joanna Lumley as Marie Jouvet; Capucine as Lady Simone Litton in Trail of the Pink Panther (1982)

20 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.

Brad Pitt as Aldo Raine in Inglourious Basterds

20 Movie Quotes about Detectives (+ Sound Clips) - page 2

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