Best crime movie quotes of 1981

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Body Heat picture

Ned: You better take me up on this quick. In about 45 minutes, I'm going to give up and go away.

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Nighthawks picture

Peter Hartman: Oh, for Christ's sake, DaSilva! Come off this cop on the beat mentality! Your wife left you for it! Wasn't that enough.

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Thief picture

Frank: Did it ever occur to you, to try to work for a living? Take down your own scores?
Unnamed Detective: OK, fuck this guy.
Urrizi: I'll tell you something, I'm gonna be on your ass so much, you're gonna get careless. And on that day I'm gonna be in that place.
Frank: And that, is the last place that you wanna be. 'Cause no matter what happens, I will never, ever take a pinch from a greasy motherfucker like you.

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Bud: Amazing Grace, come sit on my face. Don't make me cry, I need your pie.

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Security Sergeant Montone: Nelson, we're talking about nuclear detonators here. You don't just "lose" them and then "find" them. You lose your comb and then find it, but not detonators. Now I want to know where they were found, and who found them. You get my drift?

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Maureen Cutter, 'Mo': Speaking of which, you're home awfully early, aren't you? Couldn't you find a matron with a taste for gutter squalor?

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The Pilot, Capt. Hank Tucker rcaf: I'm Captain Hank Tucker, rcaf. I've come to bring the fugitive to justice. Where's headquarters?
Sergeant Edgar Millen: Wherever I'm standin'.

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Bag Lady: Don't know why they want to persecute me because I don't talk to women. All women do is laugh, and sing, and say the word 'Pussy'. Y'ask any doctor, and he'll tell you that.

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Frank Chambers: What are you, uh, Greek or something?
Cora: What... do I look Greek?

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Blow Out picture

Sam: I didn't hire her for her scream, Jack, I hired her for her tits.

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Jack Amsterdam: Cut the crap. I don't have all day. It's been 20 years since my last confession. I had a lot of things to do.

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James Chan: The warrior is not a mountain goat. It is well to remember this.

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Bob Hauk: It's the survival of the human race, Plissken. Something you don't give a shit about.

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