Tommy Lee Jones movie quotes

“Keep it in your suit unless I tell you to take it out. Get yourself a Glock and lose that nickel-plated sissy pistol.”

Tommy Lee Jones - Samuel Gerard

“- Walsh: Never one to be afraid of the obvious. I admire that in a man, Sam.
- Samuel Gerard: Have I done something?
- Walsh: Yeah. You hit your prisoner while he was in handcuffs; that's against the rules. If he had any brains, he'd sue us.”
Kate Nelligan - Walsh
Tommy Lee Jones - Samuel Gerard

“We were a couple of kids fresh out of business school, with more energy than sense, and a crazy idea.”

Tommy Lee Jones - Gene McClary

“The entire economy is flat. We're in the middle of a damn recession.”

Tommy Lee Jones - Gene McClary

“Are you scared? We're all scared. You'd have to be crazy not to be scared.”
Tommy Lee Jones - Chip Hazard

“- Louis Prima: Tell us all, we'd all like to know, why do you think you'd only hit .290?
- Ty Cobb: Well, I'm 72 fucking years old you ignorant son of a bitch.”

Eloy Casados - Louis Prima
Tommy Lee Jones - Ty Cobb

“- Al Stump: If you die before the book is finished, I'll write the story I want.
- Ty Cobb: I ain't gonna die before the story's finished.
- Al Stump: I'll write slow.
- Ty Cobb: I'll die slow.”

Robert Wuhl - Al Stump
Tommy Lee Jones - Ty Cobb

“- Anne: I can't, I'm on the zone.
- Roland Sharp: What zone?
- Anne: The proper combination of protein, fat and carbohydrates.
- Roland Sharp: This combination here is proper as hell.”

Christina Milian - Anne
Tommy Lee Jones - Roland Sharp

“- Salinger: Our stock's in the fucking toilet.
- Gene: Everybody's stock's in the toilet.”
Craig T. Nelson - Salinger
Tommy Lee Jones - Gene McClary

“I always liked to hear about the oldtimers. Never missed a chance to do so. You can't help but compare yourself against the oldtimers. Can't help but wonder how they would have operated these times.”
Tommy Lee Jones - Ed Tom Bell

- Travis: Listen to me, Karl. I think maybe this Parsons woman has been telling the truth.
- Karl Carruthers: You're not a law professor anymore, Travis. You're barely even a parole officer. So stop playing "Mission Impossible".

Tommy Lee Jones - Travis
Ben Bode - Karl Carruthers

“1. He's scared. 2. He's a kid. They always lie. Adults are the enemy, remember?”

Tommy Lee Jones - Roy Foltrigg

“Have you noticed how everybody seems to be dead lately?”
Tommy Lee Jones - Hawk Hawkins

“- Teresa: You clearly don't know how to speak to women.
- Roland Sharp: I know how to speak to women. I clearly choose not to.”
Paula Garcés - Teresa
Tommy Lee Jones - Roland Sharp

“One day your're making fifty bucks, then five thousand, then five million.”

Tommy Lee Jones - Gene McClary

“Age will flatten a man.”
Tommy Lee Jones - Ed Tom Bell

“- Hodges: If this gets bad, it gets bad for both of us.
- Childers: Why, Hodge? Are you going to jail too?”

Tommy Lee Jones - Hodges
Samuel L. Jackson - Childers

“- Captain Bully Hayes: Are you putting down in that book that I'm a pirate?
- Writer: Well, in a manner of speaking, I suppose one could say that I am, yes.
- Captain Bully Hayes: Good! Because I am! And a damn good one too.”

Tommy Lee Jones - Captain Bully Hayes

“- Roland Sharp: You're not really the cheerleading type, are you?
- Heather: For me, it's more penance than a passion. Religious ascetics wear a hair shirt, I carry the pom-poms.”
Tommy Lee Jones - Roland Sharp
Vanessa Ferlito - Heather

“My second son weighed 300 pounds. Died in the arms of a whore in Paso Robles, California. My other son, lost all track of him. My two ex-wives won't speak to me, and my daughter, you know goddamn well won't speak to me, and Ty Cobb can't get it up anymore. Print it all!”
Tommy Lee Jones - Ty Cobb

“When we have mastered these tactics, we will use them to seek out and confront the forces of evil and kill 'em deader than hell!”
Tommy Lee Jones - Brad Little

- Admiral Bates: Mr. Strannix... this is Admiral Bates speaking. Would you please tell us why the hell you're doing this?
- William Strannix: Hi, admiral. Six months ago, your boy Tom Breaker cancelled operation "Cleopatra", and shortly thereafter two young men from Langley showed up in Miami tried to cancel me along with it. Now you did receive... (continue)(continue reading)

Andy Romano - Admiral Bates
Tommy Lee Jones - William Strannix

“There are over three hundred bullet holes in this building. Colonel Childers didn't open fire, he returned fire. And he waited until after three of his Marines were dead and another lay mortally wounded. He waited until he was personally under heavy fire. He waited until he saw that crowd holding weapons, only then did he order his men to return...” (continue)(continue reading)

Tommy Lee Jones - Hodges

“- Jay: Did you ever flashy-thing me?
- Kay: No.
- Jay: I ain't playing with you, K. Did you ever flashy-thing me?
- Kay: No.”

Will Smith - Jay
Tommy Lee Jones - Kay

“- Roland Sharp: Why do you find it necessary to listen to this constant crap?
- Anne: What's the matter? You don't like vagina music?
- Roland Sharp: Do you have to use that word before I've had my coffee and soymilk?”

Tommy Lee Jones - Roland Sharp
Christina Milian - Anne