Tommy Lee Jones movie quotes

“- Hawk Hawkins: Would you prefer this man, with his asymmetrical sagging ass-cheeks, his love-handles the size of Nebraska, and his oh-so-ugly in-grown toenail...?
- Frank Corvin: Or this son of a bitch with the chicken-gizzard neck and the face that looks like thirty miles of Death Valley fire trail?”

Tommy Lee Jones - Hawk Hawkins
Clint Eastwood - Frank Corvin

“- Hodges: I'll make you a deal. If you can tell me right now what the life expectancy was for second lieutenant dropped into a hot LZ in Vietnam in 1968, I'll tell you everything I remember about Ca Lu.
- Major Biggs: One week.
- Hodges: Negative. Sixteen minutes. Sixteen fucking minutes. That's all I remember about Ca Lu.”

Tommy Lee Jones - Hodges
Guy Pearce - Major Biggs

“- Roland Sharp: I gave up alcohol about ten years ago.
- Professor Molly McCarthy: Didn't like yourself when you were drinking?
- Roland Sharp: Hell, I loved myself when I was drinking. It was the other people that had the problem!”
Tommy Lee Jones - Roland Sharp
Anne Archer - Professor Molly McCarthy

“I don't want the Communists in here. But Washington wants vengance on the emperor, because their voters do, and their voters have no fucking idea what's good for them.”
Tommy Lee Jones - General Douglas MacArthur

“- Arnold: Marriage!
- Dr. Feld: What does that word mean to you?
- Arnold: It means we have a marriage licence and I pay all the bills.”
Tommy Lee Jones - Arnold
Steve Carrell - Doctor Feld

“- Kay: Arquillian battle rules, kid. First we get an ultimatum, then a warning shot, then we have a galactic standard week to respond.
- Jay: A galactic standard week? How the hell long is that?
- Kay: One hour.”
Tommy Lee Jones - Kay
Will Smith - Jay

“- Robert Stansfield: You're not a writer, Fred.
- Fred Blake: You even said I have a style of my own.
- Robert Stansfield: You're just a mean son-of-a-bitch that managed to save his own ass.”
Tommy Lee Jones - Robert Stansfield
Robert De Niro - Fred Blake

“- Hank Deerfield: Do you know what it means when a flag flies upside down?
- School Janitor: No...?
- Hank Deerfield: Its an international distress signal...
- School Janitor: No shit?
- Hank Deerfield: No shit! It means we're in a whole lot of trouble so come save our asses 'cause we ain't got a prayer in hell of saving it ourselves.”
Tommy Lee Jones - Hank Deerfield
Joseph Bertót - School Janitor

“- Libby: I don't know if I've ever been so scared in my whole life. I think a big part of me never thought I'd really find him. What if he doesn't recognize me? I mean, maybe after all this time...
- Travis: Dammit, woman! Because of you, I have lost a perfectly good used car, and a not-so-good job. If you don't go to this kid right now, I'm...” (continue)(continue reading)

Ashley Judd - Libby
Tommy Lee Jones - Travis

“- Mangold: Mr. Lehman, I'd love to be able to help you, sir.
- Travis: No, I don't want you guys to go to any trouble. I can handle matters. I just came down as a professional courtesy, since she's in New Orleans, and came here to kill one of your prominent citizens.
- Mangold: And just how is she planning on doing that?
- Travis: I don't know....” (continue)(continue reading)

Dave Hager - Mangold
Tommy Lee Jones - Travis

“I've never met an Emperor before, much less a god. What the hell do you say to a god?”
Tommy Lee Jones - General Douglas MacArthur

“If you want to go to intensive couples counselling all by yourself, I'll see you when you get back.”

Tommy Lee Jones - Arnold

“- Angelo Perino: I gather you didn't enjoy being a racer's wife.
- Lady Bobby Ayres: Well, let's just say I was a widow long before my husband died.”
Tommy Lee Jones - Angelo Perino
Lesley-Anne Down - Lady Bobby Ayres

“- Captain America: What about the others? Are you planning a rescue mission?
- Col. Chester Phillips: Yeah, it's called winning the war.”
Chris Evans - Captain America
Tommy Lee Jones - Col. Chester Phillips

“- Kay: Why don't you go get me some coffee?
- Jay: Sure. How do ya take it? Black? Couple cubes of kiss-my-ass?”
Tommy Lee Jones - Kay
Will Smith - Jay

“I started playing baseball when I was a kid, like everybody else but better than everybody else.”
Tommy Lee Jones - Ty Cobb

“- Al Stump: Come on, Ty, aren't you going to give Ruth credit for anything?
- Ty Cobb: He could run okay for a fat man.”

Robert Wuhl - Al Stump
Tommy Lee Jones - Ty Cobb

A man would have to put his soul at hazard. He'd have to say, "Ok, I'll be part of this world".
Tommy Lee Jones - Ed Tom Bell

“- Barb: What, you don't like gum?
- Roland Sharp: No. Chewing gum is the most significant factor in the decline of Western civilization.”
Kelli Garner - Barb
Tommy Lee Jones - Roland Sharp

“- Sgt. Johnny Gallagher: I think you're going to prison, Walter.
- Thomas Boyette: You don't know where I'm going.”
Gene Hackman - Sgt. Johnny Gallagher
Tommy Lee Jones - Thomas Boyette

“I never flew the skull and crossed bones. That's for your fictioneers. But I have sought pleasure and profit all my life at sea without regard for any man's law. That's not to say I didn't have my morals and standards. I got morals and standards. I never killed anyone who didn't have it coming. I never cheated an honest man. I never pillaged and...” (continue)(continue reading)
Tommy Lee Jones - Captain Bully Hayes

"Cobb, a prince among men, misunderstood in his genius, as genius always is". This is the second line from what will be the greatest biography of a great man ever written - type it!

Tommy Lee Jones - Ty Cobb

- Frank the Pug: The galaxy is here!
- Kay: What do you mean "here"?
- Jay: Galaxy's millions of stars and planets. How's it here?
- Frank the Pug: You humans! When will you learn size doesn't matter? Just because something's important, doesn't mean it's not very small.
Tim Blaney - Frank the Pug
Tommy Lee Jones - Kay
Will Smith - Jay

“What is a pancreas, anyhow? I mean, I don't know what the damn thing does for you, besides give you cancer.”
Tommy Lee Jones - Hawk Hawkins

“- Jay: What's the catch?
- Kay: The catch is you will sever every human contact. Nobody will ever know you exist anywhere. Ever. I'll give you to sunrise to think it over.
- Jay: Is it worth it?
- Kay: Oh yeah, it's worth it... if you're strong enough!”

Will Smith - Jay
Tommy Lee Jones - Kay