Tommy Lee Jones movie quotes

“Mr. Preston, this operation will be a failure if we all die!”
Tommy Lee Jones - Brad Little

“Rules of engagement: one, whoever sees the other person first is the winner; two, whoever gets seen first is toast.”
Tommy Lee Jones - Brad Little

“I will teach you how to kill. Quickly. Accurately. Efficiently. It will become a reflex action. You will learn how to enter a combat zone and evaporate into shadow. You will learn how to survive... or you will not!”
Tommy Lee Jones - L.T. Bonham

“How can I hold that all men are created equal when here before me stands, stinking, the moral carcass of the gentleman from Ohio? Proof that some men are inferior, endowed by their maker with dim wits, impermeable to reason, with cold, pallid slime in their veins instead of hot, red blood!”
Tommy Lee Jones - Thaddeus Stevens

“- Head Illinois State Trooper: I don't want to tell you how to do your job...
- Samuel Gerard: Put the helicopter on the bridge!
- Head Illinois State Trooper: But only one man in a million can survive that fall. The guy is fish food.
- Samuel Gerard: Fine. Go get a cane pole, catch the fish that ate him.”

Danny Goldring - Head Illinois State Trooper
Tommy Lee Jones - Samuel Gerard

“- Fred Blake: Can't you just sit down and relax and enjoy it? In our long friendship, this is our first ever guys' night out.
- Robert Stansfield: Friendship?
- Fred Blake: Yeah. I mean, you're probably the guy I hate the most in this whole fuckin' world, but we've known each other what, nine, ten years already? My freedom is based on the deep...” (continue)(continue reading)
Robert De Niro - Fred Blake
Tommy Lee Jones - Robert Stansfield

“- Mangold: Lehman, the thing is, every now and again, we all want to believe in something, but we just keep forgetting that 99.9 percent of the time, life just flat don't work out.
- Travis: I hadn't thought of that, Mangold. Thanks. I feel a lot better now.”
Dave Hager - Mangold
Tommy Lee Jones - Travis

“If it lacerates or detonates, I want it mobile and I want it lethal.”
Tommy Lee Jones - Chip Hazard

“You start with some crazy idea, take insane risks, make barely enough to feed your family, not a chance you're gonna succeed. Then all of a sudden you've got all these things and you're terrified of losing them.”

Tommy Lee Jones - Gene McClary

“- Private Robert Ortiez: Wouldn't it be funny if the devil looked just like you?
- Hank Deerfield: Why don't you come over here! I'll show you what the devil looks like!”
Roman Arabia - Private Robert Ortiez
Tommy Lee Jones - Hank Deerfield

“- Ed: You have kids, Gene?
- Gene: Two.
- Ed: Yeah? How old?
- Gene: Thirty and thirty-two.
- Ed: Wow, out of the house. Lucky you.
- Gene: Yep. Potty-trained and everything.”
Scott Winters - Ed
Tommy Lee Jones - Gene McClary

“- Jay: You're back.
- Kay: No.
- Jay: Then how did you know that his head would grow back?
- Kay: It grows back?”

Will Smith - Jay
Tommy Lee Jones - Kay

“One man is born a hero, his brother a coward. Babies starve, politicians grow fat. Holy men are martyred, and junkies grow legion. Why? Why, why, why, why, why? Luck! Blind, stupid, simple, doo-dah, clueless luck!”
Tommy Lee Jones - Two-Face

“- Captain Bully Hayes: Not much of a drinker, are you?
- Nathaniel Williamson: No.
- Captain Bully Hayes: Well, it's a useful habit sometimes.”
Tommy Lee Jones - Captain Bully Hayes
Michael O'Keefe - Nathaniel Williamson

“Men knew their worth, knew who they were.”

Tommy Lee Jones - Gene McClary

“- Nick: Aren't you gonna do something?
- Travis: What are you talkin' to me for? She's the one with the gun.”

Bruce Greenwood - Nick
Tommy Lee Jones - Travis

“- Biggs: Sam, are you out of your mind? He's dead.
- Samuel Gerard: That ought to make him easier to catch.”

Daniel Roebuck - Biggs
Tommy Lee Jones - Samuel Gerard

“I don't hold with equality in all things, just equality before the law, nothing more.”
Tommy Lee Jones - Thaddeus Stevens

“- Col. Chester Phillips: Johann Schmidt belongs in a bug house. He thinks he's a God and he's willing to blow half the world prove it, starting with the U.S.A.
- Howard Stark: Schmidt's working with powers beyond our capabilities. He gets across the Atlantic, he will wipe out the entire eastern sea board in an hour.”
Tommy Lee Jones - Col. Chester Phillips
Dominic Cooper - Howard Stark

“Dr. Richard Kimble! There's no way out of here, Richard! The entire building is locked down! Give it up Richard, you don't have any time, Chicago police department thinks you're a cop killer, they will shoot you on sight! I know you're innocent! I know about Frederick Sykes! I know about Dr. Charles Nichols!”

Tommy Lee Jones - Samuel Gerard

“- Dr. Feld: All right. This is good.
- Arnold: Good for you. The more we tear each other apart, the more money we have to pay you to put it back together.”
Steve Carrell - Doctor Feld
Tommy Lee Jones - Arnold

“Slavery is the only insult to the natural law.”
Tommy Lee Jones - Thaddeus Stevens

“- Gene: You made twenty-two million last year. These people have lost their homes, their marriages, the respect of their children.
- Salinger: We did what the market required of us to survive!”
Tommy Lee Jones - Gene McClary
Craig T. Nelson - Salinger

“- Hank Deerfield: I'll call you when I'll arrive tomorrow.
- Joan Deerfield: It's a two-day drive.
- Hank Deerfield: For some people.”
Tommy Lee Jones - Hank Deerfield
Susan Sarandon - Joan Deerfield

“- Roy: Lying lips are an abomination to the Lord, so sayeth the Psalms!
- Judge Harry Roosevelt: That's Proverbs 12:22.”
Tommy Lee Jones - Roy Foltrigg
Ossie Davis - Harry Roosevelt