25 Movie Quotes about Sheriffs (+ Sound Clips)

Updated: Jan 6, 2026

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

1 Sheriff, don't you reckon we ought to give that there trapdoor a test?

Ken Curtis as Nutsy The Vulture in Robin Hood (1973)

2 I had to rescue the sheriff, Wylie Burp. He was surrounded by the Cactus Cat gang.

Phillip Glasser as Fievel Mousekewitz in An American Tail: Fievel Goes West

3 I'm calling the Sheriff a hyena. What do you like with it? Vile, corrupt, unscrupulous, depraved? -Yeah. And in that order.

Walter Matthau as Walter Burns; Jack Lemmon as Hildy Johnson in The Front Page (1974)

4 According to the play, it is the job of the sheriff to clean up the town. We're helping.

Jim Cummings as Winnie The Pooh in The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh

5 Hmm. Some sheriff.

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

6 And a sheriff has to protect people, and be polite, and clean up the town, and stop bad guys from doing no-gooding around here, and, uh, so there.

John Fiedler as Piglet in The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh

7 See, that badge makes you sheriff, and sheriffs and horse thieves don't get along. Right?

Jim Cummings as Winnie The Pooh in The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh

8 Now look what you done! The badge fell off! You know what this means? -I'm not sheriff anymore? -You're not sheriff anymore!

Jim Cummings as Winnie The Pooh in The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh

9 You can't touch me, Sheriff! I brought my attack dog with a built-in force field.

Estelle Harris as Mrs. Potato Head in Toy Story 3

10 To hell with all you sheriffs and deputies and all who gave birth to you.

Eli Wallach as Tuco in The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

25 Movie Quotes about Sheriffs (+ Sound Clips)

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