Tommy Lee Jones movie quotes

“- Private Robert Ortiez: I got an honorable discharge, if you can believe it.
- Hank Deerfield: It's the Army, I can believe anything.”
Roman Arabia - Private Robert Ortiez
Tommy Lee Jones - Hank Deerfield

“- Pizza Delivery Guy: Dude, do you live here with all these girls?
- Roland Sharp: Temporarily.
- Pizza Delivery Guy: Dude, you're my new hero.
- Roland Sharp: Imagine what that means to me.”

Brian F. Otting - Pizza Delivery Guy
Tommy Lee Jones - Roland Sharp

“- Jay: We don't like bugs?
- Kay: Bugs thrive on carnage, Tiger. They consume, infest, destroy, live off the death and destruction of other species.”

Will Smith - Jay
Tommy Lee Jones - Kay

“Eternal vigilance is the price of duty.”
Tommy Lee Jones - Chip Hazard

“- Nathaniel Williamson: You knew what you were doing in Samoa. It would have worked out if it wasn't for me.
- Captain Bully Hayes: Oh, don't feel badly 'cause you don't know your way around a whorehouse.”
Michael O'Keefe - Nathaniel Williamson
Tommy Lee Jones - Captain Bully Hayes

“You've got a lot of guts. Let's see what they look like.”
Tommy Lee Jones - Chip Hazard

“- Nick: They're tough in Louisiana, Libby. You shoot me, they'll give you the gas chamber.
- Libby: No they won't. It's called double jeopardy. I learned a few things in prison, Nick. I could shoot you in the middle of Mardi Gras and they can't touch me.
- Travis: As an ex-law professor, I can assure you she is right.”
Bruce Greenwood - Nick
Ashley Judd - Libby
Tommy Lee Jones - Travis

“- Laura Mars: I can't understand... how it's possible... to live your whole life... without someone... and be doing more or less ok. And then suddenly you find them.
- John Neville: You recognize them.
- Laura Mars: You recognize them. And... you know without them...
- John Neville: It's terrifying.
- Laura Mars: Yes.
- John Neville: It's...” (continue)(continue reading)
Faye Dunaway - Laura Mars
Tommy Lee Jones - John Neville

“Ask not what your country can do for you, only regret that you have but one life to live!”
Tommy Lee Jones - Chip Hazard

“- Jay: Why the big secret? People are smart. They can handle it.
- Kay: A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky dangerous animals and you know it.”
Will Smith - Jay
Tommy Lee Jones - Kay

“You have broken into our hideout. You have violated the sanctity of our lair. For this we should crush your bones into powder. However, you do pose a very interesting proposition: therefore, heads, we accept, and tails, we blow your damned head off!”

Tommy Lee Jones - Two-Face

“- William Strannix: These things are gonna sell like hotcakes!
- Commander Krill: Absolutely.
- William Strannix: What are you gonna do when you get two hundred million dollars in the bank?
- Commander Krill: Buy the presidency!”

Tommy Lee Jones - William Strannix
Gary Busey - Commander Krill

“We are who we are... even if we sometimes forget it.”
Tommy Lee Jones - Kay

“- Amy Post: You think we can make it on our feet?
- Elmore Pratt: Hell, yeah. We got four of them now.”
Sally Field - Amy Post
Tommy Lee Jones - Elmore Pratt

“- Jay: You don't remember me, but we used to work together...
- Kay: I never worked in a funeral home.”
Will Smith - Jay
Tommy Lee Jones - Kay

“- Sara Holland: I have never met a kid who didn't dream of being an astronaut when he grew up.
- Hawk Hawkins: Did you ever meet a kid who didn't grow up?”
Marcia Gay Harden - Sara Holland
Tommy Lee Jones - Hawk Hawkins

“- Marvin Ringer: Mr. Quint and I go back a ways. We used to be... in competition?
- Quint: I never considered you competition, Marvin.
- Marvin Ringer: That's not nice, Quint. We had our moments.
- Quint: You must have had yours in private.”
Lee Ving - Marvin Ringer
Tommy Lee Jones - Quint

“- Number One: Angelo, I don't want anyone else to get hurt. I'm giving up the Betsy.
- Angelo Perino: You're what?
- Number One: I've seen people broken before, and it's not gonna happen again. The next funeral I want to attend is my own.”
Laurence Olivier - Number One
Tommy Lee Jones - Angelo Perino

“The desire for glory is not a sin.”
Tommy Lee Jones - Ty Cobb

“- Samuel Gerard: Why did Richard Kimble kill his wife?
- Detective Kelly: He did it for the money.
- Samuel Gerard: What do you mean, he did it for the money? He's a doctor. He's already rich.
- Detective Kelly: But she was more rich.”
Tommy Lee Jones - Samuel Gerard
Ron Dean - Detective Kelly

“- Kay: Does that come standard?
- Jay: Actually it came with a black dude, but he kept getting pulled over.”

Tommy Lee Jones - Kay
Will Smith - Jay

“I've just been down the gullet of an interstellar cockroach. That's one of a hundred memories I don't want.”

Tommy Lee Jones - Kay

“- Frank Corvin: Hawk, this isn't a stripped-down showplane. You've got to do it their way.
- Hawk Hawkins: I don't need a damn computer to tell me how to land an aircraft.
- Roger Hines: It's not an aircraft, Colonel. It's a flying brick, and you've got to use the computer's protocols.”

Clint Eastwood - Frank Corvin
Tommy Lee Jones - Hawk Hawkins
Courtney B. Vance - Roger Hines

“- Mason: When was your last fight?
- Elmore Pratt: I ain't had it yet!”
Keith David - Mason
Tommy Lee Jones - Elmore Pratt

“I made him what he is, I can stop him.”

Tommy Lee Jones - L.T. Bonham