Tom Selleck movie quotes

“- Officer: This whole experience must really be trying.
- Jon: Yes, I feel horrible.
- Officer: I meant for them.
- Jon: Oh yeah, them too.”

Richard Sullivan Lee - Police Officer
Tom Selleck - Jon Aldrich

“- Rafe Covington: Sheriff, you're sittin' in my rocking chair.
- Sheriff Walter Moncrief: I thought that's what it was for.
- Rafe Covington: It's for people I invite to sit in it.
- Joe Gill: Walter, you ain't invited.”
Tom Selleck - Rafe Covington
Barry Corbin - Sheriff Walter Moncrief
Wilford Brimley - Joe Gill

“- Nick Lassiter: What happens if they catch me? You gonna bring on the cavalry?
- Peter Breeze: Well... if they catch you in the embassy there's nothing we can do. That embassy is Germany, you might as well be in Berlin.”
Tom Selleck - Nick Lassiter
Joe Regalbuto - Peter Breeze

“How I wish this cruel business of war could be completed quickly. It leaves me heartsick to think of sending so many young men.”
Tom Selleck - Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower

“I don't know where we're going, but there's no sense being late.”
Tom Selleck - Matthew Quigley

“- Jesse Stone: How quickly can your people match the bullets to the ones from the first victim?
- Captain Healy: I'm the state homicide commander. I'm not God.
- Jesse Stone: I thought they were the same thing.”
Tom Selleck - Jesse Stone
Stephen McHattie - Captain Healy

“- Yoji Nishimurar: All wisecracks you're making make you seem disrespectable. I just do this for you to save face. Besides, press writes their own story anyway.
- Jack Elliot: I'll deal with the Press! And I'll take care of my own face, you just translate what comes out of it! You got me?”
Toshi Shioya - Yoji Nishimura
Tom Selleck - Jack Elliot

“I had to go to four different stores to buy four different kinds of formula. Three different kinds of diapers, bottles, towels, you have no idea how much crap these kids need.”
Tom Selleck - Peter Mitchell

“- Nick Lassiter: Tell me about Berlin.
- Kari Von Fursten: Berlin... for me it is the only city. Well Shanghai can be pretty interesting.”
Tom Selleck - Nick Lassiter
Lauren Hutton - Kari Von Fursten

“- Jack Elliot: Just let them have a little fun.
- Uchiyama: Baseball is work. Not fun.
- Jack Elliot: Baseball is grown men getting paid to play a game. When you were a kid, I bet you didn't pick up a bat and ball because you were dying to work. A player's career is short enough. Let them enjoy it.”
Tom Selleck - Jack Elliot
Ken Takakura - Uchiyama

“Hundreds of thousands will fighting to return home. But if they do not offer the sacrifice in blood now, we will all pay dearly with added gallons later. So if some must die, it is in a worthy cause.”
Tom Selleck - Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower

“We're not athletes, we're baseball players!”
Tom Selleck - Jack Elliot

“There's a quarter of a million dollars in heroin in the diaper pail and the new baby wipes are in the hall cabinet.”
Tom Selleck - Peter Mitchell

“- Harry: You sold the shoe store? You sold the shoe store?
- Jon: I'm sorry, Pop, I just couldn't find the right way to tell you.
- Harry: Tell me what?
- Jon: That I sold the shoe store.
- Harry: You sold the shoe store?”

Don Ameche - Harry Aldrich
Tom Selleck - Jon Aldrich

“I love you. I love the way you walk, I love the way you laugh, I love the way when you get nervous you bite your bottom lip just like you're doing now, I love the way you love Mary, I even love her liver mousse. I love you and if there were no Mary, if there was nothing else I would still love you. And I want to make Mary all over again with you.”

Tom Selleck - Peter

“- Anne Rodney: Tell me, how does a man go from the Jesuits to...
- Rafe Covington: Couldn't get the knack of turning the other cheek.”
Virginia Madsen - Ann Rodney
Tom Selleck - Rafe Covington

“- Peter Mitchell: All we have to do is feed it, it'll shut up.
- Michael Kellam: I don't know what babies eat.
- Peter Mitchell: Soft stuff. We were babies once, for Christ's sakes, what did we eat?
- Michael Kellam: I don't know, but it couldn't have been very good, I can't remember!”
Tom Selleck - Peter Mitchell
Steve Guttenberg - Michael Kellam

- Jack Elliot: Japanese way, "shut up and take it"!
- Uchiyama: Jack's way, "me, me, me"! Sometimes acceptance and cooperation are strengths also.
Tom Selleck - Jack Elliot
Ken Takakura - Uchiyama

“- Arlene: I'm 35-years-old, Jon!
- Jon: You're not 35-years-old, I'm 40 and you're older than I am!
- Arlene: I'm 35! I got two obnoxious teenage boys and no husband. I have to compete with firm young women and only so much plastic surgery can do for me.”
Christine Ebersole - Arlene Aldrich
Tom Selleck - Jon Aldrich

“- Beau Dorn: You shot me.
- Rafe Covington: Just when things were going so good for you.”
Brad Johnson - Beau Dorn
Tom Selleck - Rafe Covington

“- Mildred: You're so much nicer than Jon's first wife.
- Audrey: You were married before?
- Jon: Um...
- Audrey: You were married before and you didn't tell me?
- Jon: Didn't I tell you? I thought I told you. I told somebody.”
Anne Jackson - Mildred Aldrich
Wendy Crewson - Audrey Aldrich
Tom Selleck - Jon Aldrich

“Congratulations, guys, you just staked out a roll of toilet paper.”
Tom Selleck - Jack Ramsay

“- Jon: Did you say I have only one testicle?
- Dr. Aviano: That's right.
- Jon: Nope, nope. Oh no!
- Dr. Aviano: Don't be upset, one is all you need. The other is just sort of a back up. It won't affect your sex life.”

Tom Selleck - Jon Aldrich
Omar Cabral - Dr. Aviano

“- Yoji Nishimura: She wants to know why you have chosen to play in Japan.
- Jack Elliot: Let's just say I had a yen to play here.
- Yoji Nishimura: Mr. Elliot would gladly pay for honor of playing in Japan.”

Toshi Shioya - Yoji Nishimura
Tom Selleck - Jack Elliot

“- Jon: This morning he named every member of his fighter squad like it was yesterday.
- Mildred: 1943 he remembers like it was yesterday. It's yesterday he can't remember like it was yesterday.”

Tom Selleck - Jon Aldrich
Anne Jackson - Mildred Aldrich