- Brenda: How do you go from this tranquility to that violence?
- Sonny Crockett: I usually take the Ferrari.
- [During an auction]
- Sonny Crockett: The secret to success, whether it's women or money, is knowing when to quit. I oughta know: I'm divorced and broke.
- Sonny Crockett: Damn, these birds are noisy. At least they're not in a cage, sort of a natural habitat.
- Det. Ricardo Tubbs: Kind of like an alligator in a sailboat.
- Sonny Crockett: You just got to learn to go with the heat, Rico. It's just like life. You just gotta keep telling yourself, no matter how hot it gets, sooner or later there's a cool breeze coming in.
- Det. Ricardo Tubbs: Should I write that down?
- Sonny Crockett: Hate waiting, feel like a character in a Becket play.
- Det. Ricardo Tubbs: Since when do you know Becket?
- Sonny Crockett: Charlie Becket, works down the shoeshine, writes plays on the side.
- Sonny Crockett: Man, it's so hot you could fry an egg on my face.
- Det. Ricardo Tubbs: Hope I never get that hungry.
- Izzy Moreno: Your partner looks kinda intense today.
- Det. Stan Switek: I haven't seen him like this since 1983 when he chased a guy who stole a hubcap from the bug van.
- Izzy Moreno: Have we already had the scene where I ask what this is all about and you say, "Shut up, we ask the questions".
- Det. Stan Switek: I don't know, did we, Lar?
- Sonny Crockett: Do you think this makes us even?
- Laurence Thurmond: No, not at all. Is was just the best I had to offer.
- Sonny Crockett: Aw, the hell with it. You want to be dead? Bang, you're dead.
- Ira Stone: These days money comes from all kinds of places.
- Det. Ricardo Tubbs: Yeah, well, my money comes from my pocket. Now do you wanna do business?
- Sonny Crockett: [Describing his ex-wife] She left me at Sears, and had me cryin' all the way to Walgreens.
- Sonny Crockett: Knowing the answers doesn't make it any easier, does it?
- Det. Ricardo Tubbs: In this job you're lucky if it doesn't make it any harder.
- Sonny Crockett: First a junkie, now a hooker. I think I've been in the business too long, I'm starting to fall for the players.
- [at shooting range]
- Kern: New Bren-10's pretty nice, ey Burnett?
- Sonny Crockett: It's all right.
- Kern: Got the Eagle inside, you want to try it?
- Sonny Crockett: Some other time, Kern.
- Kern: Haven't seen you in a while.
- Sonny Crockett: Been pretty busy.
- Kern: Still keeping in touch with the Cazadores?
- Sonny Crockett: That bunch of daisies?
- [laughs scornfully]
- Sonny Crockett: I'm putting together a whole new group of people. Men that take life seriously.
- [pause]
- Sonny Crockett: 200 miles out there, there's men sitting in nuclear submarines just waiting to put us in their crosshairs. Who's gonna protect us, mister? The Army? They're a bunch of toy soldiers. Half-breds! Women! Homosexuals! That's who is protecting our country!
- Roberto 'Nico' Arroyo: To what do I owe this pleasure?
- Det. Gina Navarro Calabrese: I wanted to see how you chill out after a rape.
- Street lady at bar: Hey, handsome, why don't you buy me a drink?
- Rickles: Because I wasn't born yesterday.