Tommy Lee Jones movie quotes

“Nick Nitro's battery has run out, but his memory lives on.”
Tommy Lee Jones - Chip Hazard

“- Jay: You chose me, so you recognized the skills, so I don't want nobody calling me son or kid or sport or nothing like that, cool?
- Kay: Cool, whatever you say, slick, but I need to tell you something about all your skills. As of right now, they mean precisely... dick.”
Will Smith - Jay
Tommy Lee Jones - Kay

“- Travis: You think I'm a mean son of a bitch?
- Libby: I think you could have given her a second chance.
- Travis: There are no second chances in this house, baby. This is the last chance house! You try to understand that.”
Tommy Lee Jones - Travis
Ashley Judd - Libby

- Nathaniel Williamson: I was very quick to judge you.
- Captain Bully Hayes: Aw, what do they say, son? Don't judge unle... no, let's see, judge not, judge not, judge ye not...
- Nathaniel Williamson: "Judge not lest ye be judged". Matthew 7, verse 1.
Michael O'Keefe - Nathaniel Williamson
Tommy Lee Jones - Captain Bully Hayes

“- Jay: Wait a minute. You just flash that thing, it erases her memory, and you just make up a new one?
- Kay: A standard issue neuralyzer.”

Will Smith - Jay
Tommy Lee Jones - Kay

“Don't worry, people, no need for alarm, it's just a good-old fashioned, low-tech stick up! We're interested in the basics: cash, jewelry, cellular telephones. Just hand them over nicely, and no one will be hurt.”
Tommy Lee Jones - Two-Face

“- Woodrow F. Call: [Call thinks Gus has died] Augustus.
- Augustus 'Gus' McCrae: [opens his eyes] By God, Woodrow; it's been one hell of a party.
[dies]”
Tommy Lee Jones - Woodrow F. Call
Robert Duvall - Augustus 'Gus' McCrae

“You could crash this thing at twenty G's and survive but I am not going to prove it to you!”

Tommy Lee Jones - Brad Little

“Let me tell you what's south of us: no more museums, no more department stores, just homes! People! If we turn and run now, they're going to be defenseless! You don't like my plan? That's good. Give me a another plan, but don't tell me we're backing out!”
Tommy Lee Jones - Mike Roark

“- Samuel Gerard: Cosmo, where are you?
- Renfro: I'm in traffic! I'm in New York City! Where the hell do you think I am? We're on our way!”
Tommy Lee Jones - Samuel Gerard
Joe Pantoliano - Renfro

“- Quint: You gotta think these things through. You don't just come walking in to someplace, waving a gun around, and expect the world to put up with that. It's not acceptable behavior.
- Kid at Grocery Store: You gonna stop me?
- Quint: Hell no, go right ahead. Probably got a minute or two... maybe you don't. Just trying to help you, son. That...” (continue)(continue reading)

Tommy Lee Jones - Quint
David Pressman - Kid at Grocery Store

“- Al Stump: I gotta put your family in my book.
- Ty Cobb: Your book? My book! And nothing about my ex-wives or my children is going to be in it. My book is about baseball!
- Al Stump: My book is about Cobb.
- Ty Cobb: Cobb is Baseball!”
Robert Wuhl - Al Stump
Tommy Lee Jones - Ty Cobb

“A mind is a terrible thing to waste.”

Tommy Lee Jones - Chip Hazard

“- Loretta Lynn: This food's cold.
- Doolittle Lynn: That's because it froze on the way over here from the damn restaurant. You want a hot breakfast, you got to come with me.”
Sissy Spacek - Loretta Lynn
Tommy Lee Jones - Doolittle Lynn

They were a group of intergalactic refugees. Wanted to the use the earth as an apolitical zone for creatures without a planet. Did you ever seen the movie "Casablanca"? Same thing, except no Nazis. We agreed, and we concealed all the evidence of their landing.

Tommy Lee Jones - Kay

“- Dr. Richard Kimble: I didn't kill my wife.
- Samuel Gerard: I don't care.”

Harrison Ford - Dr. Richard Kimble
Tommy Lee Jones - Samuel Gerard

“- Ruth Matthews: Everybody goes off into their own worlds sometimes; I do!
- Jake Beerlander: Yes, of course we all do, but we come back.”
Kathleen Turner - Ruth Matthews
Tommy Lee Jones - Jake Beerlander

“All right, kid, here's the deal. At any given time there are approximately 1500 aliens on the planet, most of them right here in Manhattan. And most of them are decent enough, they're just trying to make a living.”

Tommy Lee Jones - Kay

“- Mike Roark: Lava? Right here in L.A?
- Dr. Amy Barnes: It is one of the possibilities.
- Mike Roark: We have a history of that here in the downtown area?
- Rachel: Paracutin... 1943, a Mexican farmer sees smoke coming out of the middle of his cornfield. A week later there's a volcano a thousand feet high. There's no history of anything until...” (continue)(continue reading)
Tommy Lee Jones - Mike Roark
Anne Heche - Dr. Amy Barnes
Laurie Lathem - Rachel

“Months, days, hours. Always face it forward.”

Tommy Lee Jones - Kay

“In the mid-50s the government started an underfunded agency with the simple and laughable purpose of establishing contact with a race not of this planet. Everyone thought the agency was a joke, except the aliens who made contact March 1961, outside New York. There were nine of us that first night. Seven agents, one astronomer and one dumb kid...” (continue)(continue reading)

Tommy Lee Jones - Kay

“You won. You go ahead and tell the whole wide world that the greatest ballplayer who ever lived is also the greatest bastard. Eureka! Who fucking cares?”

Tommy Lee Jones - Ty Cobb