Detective Jimmy "Popeye" Doyle quotes from The French Connection (1971)

Detective 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.

Detective Jimmy "Popeye" Doyle

You dumbass.

Detective Buddy "Cloudy" Russo

How the hell was I supposed to know he had a knife.

Detective Jimmy "Popeye" Doyle

Never trust a ****.

Detective Buddy "Cloudy" Russo

He could have been white.

Detective Jimmy "Popeye" Doyle

Never trust anyone.

Detective Jimmy "Popeye" Doyle

Look, I say we keep sitting on Boca!

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.

Detective 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.

Hey! Break it up! You two break it up! Hold onto yourself, what's the matter with you?

Detective Jimmy "Popeye" Doyle

Son of a...!

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!

Detective 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.

Detective 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?

Detective Buddy "Cloudy" Russo

What was the weight of the car when you got it, Irv?

Forty seven hundred ninty five pounds.

Detective Buddy "Cloudy" Russo

You sure?

That's what it was, 4,795 pounds when it came into the shop.

Detective Buddy "Cloudy" Russo

Owners manual says four thousand six hundred seventy-five, that's a hundred twenty pounds overweight. (reading additional paperwork from the car's transit from Marseilles) And when it was booked in to Marseilles it was four seven nine five, that's still a hundred twenty pounds overweight, Jimmy's gotta be right!

Listen, I ripped everything out of there except the rocker panels.

Detective Jimmy "Popeye" Doyle

Come on, Irv, what the hell is that?