5 Movie Quotes about Homicide (+ Sound Clips)

Updated: Jan 15, 2026

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

1 Welcome to Homicide.

Clint Eastwood as Inspector "Dirty" Harry Callahan; Inspector Dirty Harry Callahan in Dirty Harry (1971)

2 My need to engage in homicidal behaviour on a massive scale cannot be corrected, but I have no other way to fulfill my needs.

Christian Bale as Patrick Bateman in American Psycho

3 I read in a book today it was bad to kill people. What does that mean? Bad?

Quote from Dimension X

4 Ever take a homicide picture before, son? -Well, at least he won't be movin' on us. -That's for sure.

Rod Steiger as Bill Gillespie in In the Heat of the Night (1967)

5 Tie him up, Mike, and tight. Wrists first, and then the ankles, and a few loops hooking' 'em together. No, not that tight, Mike. Even a Homicide man has blood in his veins. -That's more than I can say for you, Murdock.

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