Axel Foley quotes from Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F (2024)

Axel Foley

You made an assumption based on [indicates his skin color] this that I did not like hockey.

Axel Foley

What are you staring at? What is this, a union job? Well, we don't give OSHA breaks here. Move, bitch!

Axel Foley

Seriously, this is your squad car? You know, part of me rather get locked up for resisting arrest than get put in this little Fisher Price mother****er y'all are rolling around in. Y'all are the LEGO cops.

Axel Foley

Have you two had intercourse?

Axel Foley

The point that I'm trying to make, is that when I do something like try to teach you how to get out of handcuffs, that's the same as another parent when they take their kid to the ballgame or giving their kids a slinky, you know?

Axel Foley

You're my only child, right? And I've only been a father as long as you've been a daughter. We're making this up as we go along, we both are.

Axel Foley

I do some of my best work when I'm suspended.

Axel Foley

Bobby, I'm from Detroit; for me, this is like going to Buffalo Wild Wings. [seconds later] This is nothing like Buffalo Wild Wings.

Axel Foley

You watch too many movies.

Axel Foley

I think you're being a touch negative, because, see, men are trying to kill us, Bobby, and you're a helicopter pilot. And I'm pretty sure that's a **** helicopter. Shall we?

Axel Foley

This shit's supposed to be like riding a bike!

Axel Foley

I will shoot you in your face if you don’t fly this helicopter! I will shoot you then Imma shoot myself because I ain’t dying in no helicopter crash!

Axel Foley

I can see you have layers. Like an onion.

Axel Foley

"I can… I can do better. I will be better. I will be… I don’t have to stay this way. I can be a better white man."

That's me?

Axel Foley

That's you.

Oh, yeah, but if I do you, then I am--

Axel Foley

Then it's wildly offensive.

God, you know, most guys your age? They're starting to slow down... you know, taking desk jobs! Trying to relax a little bit.

Axel Foley

This is how I relax. Are you not relaxed right now?

God--! Not relaxed!

Axel Foley

Hey, let me tell you something, Jeffrey. I don’t know whether or not you realize it, but this city still has a lot of problems. They need us.

No, no, you need the city. That's what it is. But you know what, Axel? At the end of the day, all this, it was just a job.

Axel Foley

Who the pussy clart you think you is calling this place this time of night?

Billy Rosewood

Axel, cut the shit.

Axel Foley

Axel. Me no know Axel. You dial the wrong number. What blood clart number you trying to reach? Who is this?

Billy Rosewood

It's about Janey.

Axel Foley

Well, why didn't you just start with that?

Beck's Henchman: What the hell...? This is you!

Axel Foley

Uh, nah, man, that's not me. That's that actor Wesley Snipes. Everybody say I look just like him, I don't look nothing like Wesley! That Wesley's a handsome mother****er, ain't he?

Axel Foley

I'm a Detroit police officer, my name is Axel Foley. My badge is in my pocket--

Don't reach for it!

Axel Foley

Hey, I've been a cop for thirty years, I've been black a whole lot longer. Trust me, I know better.

Axel Foley

The Twelfth Street Mafia vowed to execute my family, so I got my family safe. Because the Twelfth Street Mafia is some scary mother****ers.

Jane Saunders

Did the Twelfth Street Mafia tell you to get a divorce and stay in Detroit?

Axel Foley

No, that was your mother. She's ten times worse than the Twelfth Street Mafia.

Axel Foley

Sometimes a parent do something because they don't know how to express stuff with words, so they do things. You see what I'm saying?

Jane Saunders

So what is he saying when he stops trying? See what I'm saying?

Captain Cade Grant

I-- It's so impressive how you've been able to maintain such a vibrant relationship even though she protects the same people that you've spent your life trying to put away. I'm just amazed it doesn't get to you. I mean, criminals, sure, but we're talking about cop killers here. How does that sit with you, huh? We put our lives on the line every day. It's a war out there. We deserve more.

Axel Foley

I like that Rolex you got on.

Captain Cade Grant

Gold Daytona. Isn't she a beauty?

Axel Foley

Well, you put it best when you said this job asks a lot from us, never really gives anything back. Not like that, anyway. Must be a Beverly Hills thing.

Captain Cade Grant

All I know is, I earned it and I'm gonna enjoy it.

May I help you, sir?

Axel Foley

Uh, yes, I'm Nigel Applebottom with Bon Appetit, and I was wondering... you know, to hell with this, I'm just too tired. Do you have any rooms available?

You're in luck; I've got a beautiful resort for your room.

Axel Foley

Oh, great! I'll take that.

Wonderful! The rate is 940 dollars a night, plus tax.

Axel Foley

I love Beverly Hills.

She broke it off with me. And I'm not afraid to say that; she ended it, but you wanna know why?

Axel Foley

I got a lot of ideas--

She said she couldn't date a cop.

Look, obviously I've never been a father before, but...

Axel Foley

So it means whatever you're about to say is irrelevant.

Aah!

Axel Foley

What the **** is "aah"?! Get your ass in the helicopter!

Axel Foley

Man, you look nervous.

I am nervous.

Axel Foley

Well, why are you so damn nervous?

I crashed a ****in' helicopter, okay?! Got in my head, I haven't flown since! That's why I left LAPD.

Axel Foley

WHAT?!

I don't have my rudder!

Axel Foley

What?!

He shot my rudder up!

Axel Foley

...Do you have another one?

Billy Rosewood

What took you so long?

Axel Foley

The sightseeing. I love LA this time of year. Something about the smog and the smoke from the forest fires, it's magical.

Axel Foley

"Stay safe". Stay safe... Y'all safe? Everybody safe?

Billy Rosewood

I'm good.

There's no seatbelt in the middle.

Axel Foley

**** a seatbelt! We're on the edge!

Captain Cade Grant

You know, I lost my family. Wife divorced me. Kids won't even speak to me. And for what?

Axel Foley

Ain't nobody trying to hear that shit you talking. You not a cop, you're a criminal!

You know you didn't have to get shot for us to hang out, right?

Axel Foley

No, but it helped, though. It did that.