Gene Hackman credited as playing...
Jimmy Doyle
- Jimmy 'Popeye' Doyle: You dumb guinea.
- Buddy "Cloudy" Russo: How the hell did I know he had a knife.
- Jimmy 'Popeye' Doyle: Never trust a nigger.
- Buddy "Cloudy" Russo: He could have been white.
- Jimmy 'Popeye' Doyle: Never trust anyone!
- Jimmy 'Popeye' Doyle: All right! You put a shiv in my partner. You know what that means? Goddammit! All winter long I got to listen to him gripe about his bowling scores. Now I'm gonna bust your ass for those three bags and I'm gonna nail you for picking your feet in Poughkeepsie.
- [a few scenes later:]
- Walt Simonson: Popeye. You still picking your feet in Poughkeepsie?
- Jimmy 'Popeye' Doyle: I got a man in Poughkeepsie who wants to talk to you. Have you ever been in Poughkeepsie? Huh? Have you ever been in Poughkeepsie?
- Brooklyn Drug Dealer: Hey, man, come on, give me a break, man. I don't know what you're talkin' about!
- Jimmy 'Popeye' Doyle: Hey, come on, come on. Say it. Let me hear you say it. Come on. Have you ever been to Poughkeepsie? You've been in Poughkeepsie, haven't you? I want to hear it! Come on!
- Brooklyn Drug Dealer: Yes. Yes. Yes. I've been there.
- Jimmy 'Popeye' Doyle: All right, Popeye's here! Get your hands on your heads, get off the bar, and get on the wall!
- Jimmy 'Popeye' Doyle: [shaking up all the confiscated drugs into a soggy mess in a pint glass before pouring it out on the bar] Anybody want a milkshake?
- Buddy "Cloudy" Russo: What was the weight of the car when you got it, Irv?
- Police Mechanic: 4795 pounds.
- Buddy "Cloudy" Russo: You sure?
- Police Mechanic: That's what it was: 4795 pounds when it came into the shop.
- Buddy "Cloudy" Russo: Owners manual says 4675. That's 120 pounds overweight. And when it was booked into Marseilles it was 4-7-9-5. That's still 120 pounds overweight! Jimmy's gotta be right.
- Police Mechanic: [Defensively] Listen, I ripped everything outta there except the rocker panels.
- Jimmy 'Popeye' Doyle: C'mon Irv, what the hell is that!
- [last lines]
- Buddy "Cloudy" Russo: Mulderig. You shot Mulderig.
- Jimmy 'Popeye' Doyle: That son of a bitch is here. I saw him. I'm gonna get him.
- Jimmy 'Popeye' Doyle: This is Doyle. I'm sittin' on Frog One.
- Bill Mulderig: Yeah, I know that. We got the Westbury covered like a tent.
- Jimmy 'Popeye' Doyle: The Westbury my ass! I got him on the shuttle at Grand Central, now what the hell's going on up there?
- Jimmy 'Popeye' Doyle: If that's not a drop I'll open up a charge for you at Bloomingdale's.
- Buddy "Cloudy" Russo: Make it Alexander's Toy Department.
- Jimmy 'Popeye' Doyle: Look, I say we keep sitting on Boca!
- Walt Simonson: Jimmy, give it up. Give it up, it's all over with. If there was a deal, it's gone down by now. We blew it, we blew our warrants, and we blew our cover.
- Jimmy 'Popeye' Doyle: Listen, I know the deal hasn't gone down yet. I KNOW it! I can feel it, I'm dead certain.
- Bill Mulderig: Last time you were dead certain we had a dead cop.
- [Doyle flies into a rage and attacks Mulderig]
- Walt Simonson: [as Cloudy Russo and a uniformed officer help him break up the fight] Hey! Break it up! You two break it up! Hold onto yourself, what's the matter with you?
- Jimmy 'Popeye' Doyle: [restrained by Cloudy] Son of a...!
- Walt Simonson: [seething] Jimmy! You've wasted two months on this! No collars are coming in while you two guys are running around town jerking off! Now go back to work! You're off Special Assignment!
- Jimmy 'Popeye' Doyle: [to a random woman before he exits the bar after the drug raid] Get that hair done before Saturday. We're going now. Goodbye!
- Jimmy 'Popeye' Doyle: That's the third time he's come here this week. Got anything on this building?
- Buddy "Cloudy" Russo: The building's clean. I checked the tenant list. Remember Don Ameche, the actor? He lives here.
- Buddy "Cloudy" Russo: [Cloudy walks in Popeye's apartment and finds Popeye with his ankle handcuffed to the bed] What happened?
- Jimmy 'Popeye' Doyle: [Yawns] That crazy kid. She locked me up with my own cuffs.
- [sighs]
- Buddy "Cloudy" Russo: Where's the keys?
- Jimmy 'Popeye' Doyle: What about the last of the big-time spenders; you make him?
- Buddy "Cloudy" Russo: No.
- Jimmy 'Popeye' Doyle: He's spreadin' it around like the Russians are in Jersey.
- Jimmy 'Popeye' Doyle: She's only 19, according to the marriage certificate.
- Buddy "Cloudy" Russo: More 19 going on 50.
- Buddy "Cloudy" Russo: [handing him a cup of cheap coffee during a stakeout] You want the red or the white?
- Jimmy 'Popeye' Doyle: Pour it in your ear.
- [first lines]
- Jimmy 'Popeye' Doyle: Merry Christmas. What's your name, little boy?
- Little Boy: Eric.
- Jimmy 'Popeye' Doyle: Uh-huh, Eric. What do you want for Christmas Eric? Hmmm?