Tom Selleck movie quotes

“- Luther: I watch, I look, I listen. I'm watching you now.
- Jack Ramsay: Right. What's on your mind, Luther?
- Luther: You're standing by the desk punching buttons on the console, trying to trace this call, which won't do shit! Because I'm calling from a mobile phone. Now you're looking around... Now you're cupping your hand over the...” (continue)(continue reading)
Gene Simmons - Luther
Tom Selleck - Jack Ramsay

“- Sylvia: You are a selfish bastard!
- Peter: I'm selfish? At least I didn't leave my baby on a doorstep when she was six months old!”
Nancy Travis - Sylvia
Tom Selleck - Peter

“- Phil Blackwood: You're reading one of my books... I thought you were strictly Proust and Dostoevsky?
- Nina Lonescu: Well, I could not go to sleep last night and I knew this would help.”
Tom Selleck - Phil Blackwood
Paulina Porizkova - Nina Lonescu

“There is no true glory in war.”
Tom Selleck - Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower

“- Michelle Genest: You gonna kick me in the nuts?
- Jesse Stone: That would be difficult.”
Britt Robertson - Michelle Genest
Tom Selleck - Jesse Stone

“- Luther 'Suitcase' Simpson: Looking for anything special?
- Jesse Stone: A clue would be good.
- Luther 'Suitcase' Simpson: Such as?
- Jesse Stone: Anything that looks like a clue.”
Kohl Sudduth - Luther 'Suitcase' Simpson
Tom Selleck - Jesse Stone

“I'd rather regret the things I've done than the things I haven't done.”
Tom Selleck - Jesse Stone

“- Abby Taylor: Have you had much experience with people like Mr. Genest?
- Jesse Stone: People in South Central L.A. would keep Joe Genest for a pet.”
Polly Shannon - Abby Taylor
Tom Selleck - Jesse Stone

“Joe Genest should be kicked in the gonads once a day. It was necessary to get his attention.”
Tom Selleck - Jesse Stone

“- Abby Taylor: Do you have anything to say on the matter of your assault on Mr. Genest?
- Jesse Stone: The restraining order wasn't working. Think of me as implementing it.”
Polly Shannon - Abby Taylor
Tom Selleck - Jesse Stone

“- Prime Minister Winston Churchill: You know how to take charge.
- Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower: It's not about power. It is simply the judicious use of the responsibility you entrusted me with.”
Ian Mune - Prime Minister Winston Churchill
Tom Selleck - Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower

“I admit to having developed a veneer of callousness, but counting the human cost is a terribly sad business, and no veneer of callousness allows me to escape the truth that back home the news brings anguish and suffering.”
Tom Selleck - Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower

“I'm not sending a bunch of fresh young kids to die for a people they know nothing about. I'm asking them to die for freedom and they're ready to do it and that's why they're heroes.”
Tom Selleck - Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower

“- Sybil Martin: You married, Jesse?
- Jesse Stone: Sort of.
- Sybil Martin: Sort of?
- Jesse Stone: Every place but in my mind.”
Sean Young - Sybil Martin
Tom Selleck - Jesse Stone

“- Michael Kellam: How can something so small create so much of something so disgusting?
- Peter Mitchell: Beats the shit out of me.”

Steve Guttenberg - Michael Kellam
Tom Selleck - Peter Mitchell

“- Michelle Genest: So why are you still here?
- Jesse Stone: Trying to do the right thing.”
Britt Robertson - Michelle Genest
Tom Selleck - Jesse Stone

“- Jesse Stone: [on the phone] Well I'm just a small town cop. Mostly I give out parking tickets.
- Jenn (voice): I don't want to talk about your work.”
Tom Selleck - Jesse Stone
Gillian Anderson - Jenn (voice)

“- Peter Breeze: Besides, we're gonna be in this war, soon, pull your own weight.
- Nick Lassiter: I'm standing in a frame, Breeze, you're gonna wrap me in the flag, too.”
Joe Regalbuto - Peter Breeze
Tom Selleck - Nick Lassiter

“- Joe Genest: Give me your gun.
- Jesse Stone: No.
- Joe Genest: Put your hands behind your head.
- Jesse Stone: No.
- Joe Genest: Excuse me?
- Jesse Stone: I'm not putting my hands behind my head, I'm drinking coffee.”
Stephen Baldwin - Joe Genest
Tom Selleck - Jesse Stone

“So many youngsters already gone forever. Mothers, fathers, brothers, sisters back home must have a difficult time retaining any belief in the internal rightness of things.”
Tom Selleck - Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower

“Knowing what's right usually isn't so hard. And chasing you out of here is obviously not the right way to help you do the right thing.”

Tom Selleck - Jesse Stone

“- Jesse Stone: I'm jogging.
- Dr. Dix: Jogging clears your mind?
- Jesse Stone: I hate jogging.
- Dr. Dix: Why bother?
- Jesse Stone: It clears my mind.”
Tom Selleck - Jesse Stone
William Devane - Dr. Dix

“With so many fine young men and women from all corners of the Earth, all determined to do their best to free a world gone half mad.”

Tom Selleck - Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower

“- Rose Gammon: So, how did you feel?
- Jesse Stone: Awful.
- Rose Gammon: 'Awful's one word, how 'bout a sentence.
- Jesse Stone: When Jenn and I were together, I tried to pay attention to what she wanted. If she was happy, I always said to myself, 'I'm happy'... wasn't true, but I thought it oughtta be true, so, I insisted on trying to make it...” (continue)(continue reading)

Kathy Baker - Rose Gammon
Tom Selleck - Jesse Stone

“- Uchiyama: I am the Japanese manager for Japanese baseball team that you agreed to play for. It is your duty to learn my ways, not the other way around!
- Jack Elliot: Different language, same attitude! Let's go!”

Ken Takakura - Uchiyama
Tom Selleck - Jack Elliot