Tommy Lee Jones movie quotes

“- Hawk Hawkins: What are you doing here?
- Frank Corvin: Keeping a promise I made years ago.
- Hawk Hawkins: Was that the promise you made to kill me or the promise you made to have both my legs broke?”
Tommy Lee Jones - Hawk Hawkins
Clint Eastwood - Frank Corvin

“- Kay: Searching for a handle on the moment? I can't help you. The only comfort I can offer... is my promise that tomorrow morning you won't remember a thing.
- Jay: That's not exactly some shit you just forget.”

Tommy Lee Jones - Kay
Will Smith - Jay

“The guy's a real Marine, dad. I mean, if they can do this to him, just hang him out to dry, they... they can do it to anybody. Forget that he's my friend, they can do it to anybody. And that means, that your medals and your citations won't mean jack shit when they come after you.”

Tommy Lee Jones - Hodges

“- Kay: You know things before they happen.
- Laura Vasquez: I'm a Libra!”
Tommy Lee Jones - Kay
Rosario Dawson - Laura Vasquez

“The South may not rise again young man, but my dick will.”
Tommy Lee Jones - Ty Cobb

“Emotions are always the enemy of true justice... thank you... you've always been a good friend.”

Tommy Lee Jones - Two-Face

“My job, sir, is to evaluate radiation hazards to United States Army personnel. My wife's not enlisted in the Army. Why doesn't the colonel concern himself with the safety of men who are, rather than the mammaries of women who are not?”
Tommy Lee Jones - Hank Marshall

“- Ruth Matthews: We all go a little crazy sometimes, doctor.
- Jake Beerlander: Yes, Ms. Matthews, but most of us come back.”
Kathleen Turner - Ruth Matthews
Tommy Lee Jones - Jake Beerlander

“- Doolittle Lynn: Baby, I was just thinking... we got an anniversary coming up and I was wondering what kind of anniversary present you wanted.
- Loretta Lynn: Hmm... well, I ain't got no wedding ring yet.
- Doolittle Lynn: Wedding ring! Bullshit!”
Tommy Lee Jones - Doolittle Lynn
Sissy Spacek - Loretta Lynn

“- Kay: Not bad for your second day of work, is it?
- Jay: This definitely rates about a 9.0 on my weird-shit-o-meter.
- Kay: You should've been here for the Zeronian migration in 1968.”
Tommy Lee Jones - Kay
Will Smith - Jay

“What we got to do next is figure out what to do next.”
Tommy Lee Jones - Doolittle Lynn

“The hamburger you are about to eat will not make you feel any better, but they will give you a prize if you can get out the door before you throw up.”

Tommy Lee Jones - Elmore Pratt

“- Jay: Let's put it on.
- Kay: What?
- Jay: The last suit you'll ever wear... again.”
Will Smith - Jay
Tommy Lee Jones - Kay

“We're not toys, we're action figures!”
Tommy Lee Jones - Chip Hazard

“- Jay: You do know Elvis is dead, right?
- Kay: No, Elvis is not dead, he just went home.”

Will Smith - Jay
Tommy Lee Jones - Kay

“You take water, for example. Sometimes it's water, sometimes it's ice. Sometimes it's steam, vapor. It's always the same old H2O. It only changes its properties. Your mother's like that. She's like water.”
Tommy Lee Jones - Hank Marshall

“- Doolittle Lynn: Make many pies, Loretta?
- Loretta Lynn: Naw, this is the first one.
- Doolittle Lynn: How much salt that recipe call for?
- Loretta Lynn: Shoot, you don't put salt in a pie! You put in flour and eggs and sugar and... oh no.
- Doolittle Lynn: Makes sense though; salt and sugar are both white.”

Tommy Lee Jones - Doolittle Lynn
Sissy Spacek - Loretta Lynn

“That's the trouble with parents. They always ask when they shouldn't; never ask when they should.”
Tommy Lee Jones - Angelo Perino

“Baseball is a red blooded sport for red blooded men. It's no pink tea, and molly-coddles had better stay out... It's a struggle for supremacy, a survival of the fittest.”
Tommy Lee Jones - Ty Cobb

“- James 'Jimmy' Dove: God damn you, Gaerity! Look what you've done!
- Ryan Gaerity: You've got me all wrong. I'm not a destroyer... I'm a creator.”

Jeff Bridges - Dove
Tommy Lee Jones - Gaerity

“[referring to the Hat Creek Cattle Company sign]
- Woodrow F. Call: And if that ain't bad enough you got all them Greek words on there, too.
- Augustus 'Gus' McCrae: I told you, Woodrow, a long time ago it ain't Greek, it's Latin.
- Woodrow F. Call: Well what does it say in Latin?
- Augustus 'Gus' McCrae: Well, it's a motto. It just says itself...” (continue)(continue reading)
Tommy Lee Jones - Woodrow F. Call
Robert Duvall - Augustus 'Gus' McCrae

“- Jay: You know what they say. It's better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
- Kay: Try it.”
Will Smith - Jay
Tommy Lee Jones - Kay

“- Carly Marshall: Brigitte Bardot strips for millions, she's a goddess. I sunbathe topless and I'm a scandal.
- Hank Marshall: You're not Brigitte Bardot, remember?
- Carly Marshall: Wazza matta? I no make you happy?!”

Jessica Lange - Carly Marshall
Tommy Lee Jones - Hank Marshall

“- Mark: Thanks Rev. Roy, you've been a real pain in the ass.
- Roy: Thank you, son. I can assure you, you have been an even larger pain in the ass.”
Brad Renfro - Mark Sway
Tommy Lee Jones - Roy Foltrigg

“- Loretta Lynn: Doolittle, I can't play that thing!
- Doolittle Lynn: Well, most people can't till they learn how, dammit!”

Sissy Spacek - Loretta Lynn
Tommy Lee Jones - Doolittle Lynn