Tommy Lee Jones Quotes


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The Quotable Tommy Lee Jones
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Tommy Lee Jones' Famous Lines
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Movie/TV Title:
No Country for Old Men
2007

Character Name:
Sheriff Ed Tom Bell


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Quote(s):

Ed Tom Bell:
Here last week they found this couple out in California. They rent out rooms for old people, kill'em, bury'em in the yard, cash their social security checks. Well, they'd tortur'em first, I don't know why. Maybe the television set was broke.


Ed Tom Bell: I always figured when I got older, God would sorta come inta my life somehow. And he didn't. I don't blame him.
If I was him I would have the same opinion of me that he does.


Wendell: [referring to the dead bodies in the desert] How come you reckon the coyotes ain't been at them?
Ed Tom Bell: I don't know. Supposedly, a coyote won't eat a Mexican.


Loretta Bell: Be careful.
Ed Tom Bell: I always am.
Loretta Bell: Don't get hurt.
Ed Tom Bell: I never do.
Loretta Bell: Don't hurt no one.
Ed Tom Bell: [smiles] Well. If you say so.


Ed Tom Bell: Now that's aggravatin'.
Wendell: Sheriff?
Ed Tom Bell: [points to a bottle of milk] Still sweatin'.
Wendell: Whoa, Sheriff! We just missed him! We gotta circulate this! On Radio!
Ed Tom Bell: Alright. What we circulate? Lookin' for a man who has recently drunk milk?

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Movie/TV Title:
The Fugitive
1993


Character Name:

Marshal Samuel Gerard

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Quote(s):

Dr. Richard Kimble: I didn't kill my wife.
Deputy Gerard: I don't care.


Deputy Gerard: Newman, what are you doing?
Newman: I'm thinking.
Deputy Gerard: Well, think me up a cup of coffee and a chocolate doughnut with some of those little sprinkles on top, while you're thinking.

Sheriff Rawlins: Okay boys, gather around here and listen up. We're shuttin' it down, Wyatt Earp's here to mop up.
Deputy Gerard: That's funny. Wyatt Earp.


Deputy Gerard: Look on your maps if you wanna know how to get there!


Deputy Gerard: That's my man.
Det. Rosetti: Not anymore, he's not. He's going down. You won't help us, you stay the hell out!
Deputy Gerard: Arrest us.


Head Illinois State Trooper: I don't want to tell you how to do your job...
Deputy Gerard: [on his police radio] Put the helicopter on the bridge!
Head Illinois State Trooper: ...but only one man in a million can survive that fall. The guy is fish food.
Deputy Gerard: Fine. Go get a cane pole, catch the fish that ate him.

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Movie/TV Title:
Men in Black
1997

Character Name:
Agent K (Kay)


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Quote(s):

Kay: Set for pulsar level five, subsonic implosion factor two.
Jay: What?
Kay: Just shoot the damn thing on the count of three.



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.


Jay: You do know Elvis is dead, right?
Kay: No, Elvis is not dead. He just went home.


Kay: Imagine a giant cockroach, with unlimited strength, a massive inferiority complex, and a real short temper, is terror-assing around Manhattan Island in a brand-new Edgar suit. That sound like fun?


Jay: All right, I'm in. 'Cause there's some next level shit going on and I'm OK with that. But before y'all go beaming me up there's one thing you gotta remember: 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.


Kay: You're nothing but a smear on the Sports page to me, you slimy, ugly, intestinal parasite! Eat me! Eat me!

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Movie/TV Title:

Batman Forever
1995

Character Name:
Two-Face / Harvey Dent



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Quote(s):

Two-Face: One man is born a hero, his brother a coward. Babies starve, politicians grow fat. Holy men are martyred, and junkies grow legion.
Why? Why, why, why, why, why? Luck! Blind, stupid, simple, doo-dah, clueless luck!


Two-Face: Why can't you just die?


Two-Face: 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!


Two-Face: You're counting on the winged avenger to deliver you from evil, aren't you my friend?
Bank Guard: Are you going to kill me?
Two-Face: Maybe, maybe not. You could say we're of two minds on the subject.


Two-Face: 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.

Two Face: Let's start this party with a bang.


Two-Face: Very punctual, even to his own funeral! Boys, kill the Bat!


[Two-Face decides a victim's fate with a coin toss] Two-Face: Ah. Fortune smiles. Another day of wine and roses. Or, in your case, beer and pizza!
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Movie/TV Title:
Lonesome Dove
1989

Character Name:
Woodrow F. Call


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Quote(s):

Woodrow Call: I'm American! By God!
Gus McCrae: You was born in Scotland, as I recall. You was still draggin' on the tit when they brought you over here.
Woodrow Call: I reckon I'm as American as anyone from Tennessee.


Woodrow Call: [after handing the gun to Newt] It is better to have it and not need it, then to need it and not have it.


Woodrow Call: [to the doctor] We can still take that other leg. Get him drunk and I'll hold him.
Gus McCrae: [pulling his pistol from under the blanket] No, sir; you ain't gettin' my leg. You don't boss me, Woodrow. I'm the only man you don't boss.

[Gus refuses to have his leg amputated knowing he will die if he doesn't]
Woodrow Call: What do you want legs for anyway? You don't like to do nothing but sit on the porch and drink whiskey!
Gus McCrae: I like to kick a pig every once in a while. How would I do that?


Woodrow Call: I hate rude behavior in a man. I won't tolerate it.


Clara Allen: Did you give that boy your name before you left Montana?
Woodrow Call: I gave him my horse.
Clara Allen: But not your name.
Woodrow Call: I value the horse more than my name.

Tommy Lee Jones Quotes
  • (on working with famous movie stars) "I feel pretty lucky. Those guys, they know my name. They know who I am. Not bad for a little Indian boy. Not bad".
  • "I love cinema, and I love agriculture."
  • (on how he learned how to direct) "I've worked with more than 50 directors and I've paid attention since day one. That's pretty much been my education, apart from studying art history and shooting with my own cameras. I've seen 50 different sets of mistakes and 50 different ways of achieving. You just leave the bad part out."
  • (on choosing to be an actor) "It's a lot of fun, I've always enjoyed it. I've always had a desperate need to make my way through life by using my imagination. To decide to be an actor, you've got to be pretty sure that you're useless at any other occupation."
  • "I'm one of those people who feels that agriculture is a creative act. It's a very fine art - that's the way I approach it."
  • (on what was pivotal in establishing his career) " Being in a successful movie like Coal Miner's Daughter made a difference, as did working for Oliver Stone on JFK and with Bobby Duvall in Lonesome Dove. I guess every breath you take is a turning point."
  • (on having help with his ranch) " I try to be a good employer and give somebody a place where they want to work and where they can take pride in their work, and also provide as much security as a good workplace should in the cow business."
  • "You can't instruct an audience to laugh, but what you can do is read well and understand the spirit and subtleties, if there are any, in the dialogue."
  • (on working on "Space Cowboys") "With those three guys: Sutherland, Jim Garner and Clint, I thought I'd heard every old actor joke there was, but they took me to school and kept me laughing every day. I had a hell of a lot of fun with them."
  • "My only motivation for directing a movie is complete control. Not everybody's willing to give that away to a director. Not everybody's willing to let a director direct. In many situations it seems that a director is expected to take direction."
  • "You just look for good parts and good stories and a good company to work with. Characters with no integrity are just as interesting as characters with lots of integrity."
  • (on choosing between making money on a film or winning an award) "It's a trophy, but it's a very fine one in the world of actors; it's a wonderful honour which makes you feel that the world approves of you and all actors seek approval more desperately than the real people do."
  • "I have worked on very good movies that have been buried, and I've worked on some resounding mediocrities that have been paraded through the marketplace like they were masterpieces."
  • (on doing "The Good Old Boys") "Those were the happiest days of my creative life at that point. It's a very happy occasion for me to be producer/writer/director/actor, very happy. My motivation, of course, is lust for creative control. I want everybody's job! I don't have time for craft service, but I would do it if I had time."
Quotes About Tommy Lee Jones
Quote: Well, Tommy Lee Jones is a little bit more intimidating. He`s definitely a cowboy. He`s from Texas.
Who said/wrote it:
Christina Milian (costar Man of the House 2005)

Quote: (on being typecast) If you look at the careers of people like Anthony Quinn, Cagney, even Tommy Lee Jones, they all were cast as villains.
There comes a certain point in your life, in your late 30s, early 40s, when suddenly that can change. Maybe a director sees a glimpse of something
else within you along the way.

Who said/wrote it: Robert Davi

Quote: I loved making it, I had a ball - cowboys and Indians. This is the thing, I love doing things which I`d never envisaged before. And so getting me on the back of a horse, with Tommy Lee Jones and shooting guns and chasing Indians, it`s just not something that I would have expected myself to be doing.
Who said/wrote it: Cate Blanchett

Quote: "He's from San Saba, Texas, not far from where the movie takes place. He's the real thing regarding that region."
Who said/wrote it: The Coen brothers, director of No Country for Old Men