Tommy Lee Jones movie quotes

View Quote So he showed up not dead yet. Let that be a lesson to you, boys and girls. Don't ever argue with the Big Dog, because the Big Dog is always right.

View Quote I...don't...bargain!

View Quote Where are you, Desmondo?

View Quote Major Chip Hazard! Reporting for duty!

View Quote [to Christy] Are you scared? We're all scared. You just have to be crazy not to be scared.

View Quote I love the smell of polyurethane in the morning!

View Quote I enjoy motor sports, music and the company of close friends…sir.

View Quote We're going to put as many people in front of it as it takes. Listen up, people! 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 another plan, but don't tell me we're backing out!

View Quote [Responding to a phone call on his private line] Oh, that'll be my little girl wanting a tattoo.

View Quote 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!

View Quote Finally, justice is served! Let us die!

View Quote Let's start this party with a bang!

View Quote Jason, your dad was a patriot. He could see the threats that America was facing and, like you, he chose to serve his country out of a profound sense of duty. He would not want to see you harm the Agency. You have to stop this, and you have to stop it now.

View Quote I appreciate your enthusiasm. But do not push your personal agenda to the DNI again.

View Quote I have no idea why he came back. But whatever he's doing, he wants to destroy us. We can't let that happen. So you give us a call as soon as you hear anything.

View Quote OK, Michael. Regular or extra crispy?

View Quote These things are so cool. They can shoot underwater, pour sand in them and they'll shoot. They shoot every time.

View Quote You play any tricks, I gotta shoot you!

View Quote Mickey and Mallory Knox are without a doubt the most twisted depraved pair of shit****s it has ever been my displeasure to lay my god damn eyes on. I tell you these two mother****ers are a walking reminder of just how **** up this system really is.

View Quote Dwight McClusky. Welcome to hell.

View Quote Reporter: Do you have anything to say to your fans?
Mickey: You ain't seen nothing yet.

View Quote I'm here to create a new country for you called chaos and the government called anarchy.

View Quote You might want to mind your feet there, Liam. Betty's a very particular bomb. I hate guns. You fell for it. That wasn't the real trigger, this is.

View Quote The real fireworks for Katie and Lizzy would be later. Why don't you just settle down with Betty, catch it on the telly. I wasn't expecting you so early. It's funny how things always work out for the best.

View Quote Deputy Wendell: This is turnin' into a hell of a mess, ain't it, Sheriff?
Sheriff Ed Tom Bell: If it isn't, it'll do until the mess gets here.

View Quote Ellis: Loretta tells me you're quittin'. How come you're doin' that?
Ed Tom Bell: I don't know. I feel overmatched. I always figured when I got older, God would sort of come into my life in some way, and He didn't. And I don't blame Him. If I was Him, I'd have the same opinion of me that He does.
Ellis: You don't know what He thinks.

View Quote [opening monologue] I was Sheriff of this county when I was 25 years old. Hard to believe. My grandfather was a lawman, father too. Me and him was sheriffs at the same time, him up in Plano and me out here. I think he's pretty proud of that. I know I was. Some of the old time Sheriffs never even wore a gun. A lotta folks find that hard to believe. Jim Scarborough never carried one. That's the younger Jim. Gaston Borkins wouldn't wear one up in Comanche County. I always liked to hear about the old-timers. Never missed a chance to do so. You can't help but compare yourself against the old-timers. Can't help but wonder how they'd have operated in these times. There was this boy I sent to the electric chair at Huntsville here awhile back, my arrest and my testimony. He killed a 14 year-old girl. Papers said it was a crime of passion but he told me there wasn't any passion to it. Told me that he'd been plannin' to kill somebody for about as long as he could remember. Said that if they turned him out, he'd do it again. Said he knew he was going to hell, be there in about fifteen minutes. I don't know what to make of that. I surely don't. The crime you see now, it's hard to even take its measure. It's not that I'm afraid of it. I always knew you had to be willin' to die to even do this job. but I don't want to push my chips forward and go out and meet somethin' I don't understand. A man would have to put his soul at hazard. He'd have to say: "Okay, I'll be part of this world."

View Quote Damn it, woman. If you don't get out of this car and go to your kid, I'm going to have you arrested... for stupidity.

View Quote Oh, yeah. She's very pretty, for a convicted murder. I just came here as a professional courtesy since she's in New Orleans and plans on killing one of your prominent citizens.

View Quote Oh, no you're not. You're a parole violator. You are coming back with me to Seattle... where I will demand a full pardon, a parade, and a little pink poodle. On a keychain.

View Quote General Patton has said that wars are fought with weapons, but they are won by men. We are going to win this war because we have the best men. And because they are going to get better. Much better. The Strategic Scientific Reserve is an Allied effort made up of the best minds in the free world. Our goal is to create the best army in history. But every army starts with one man. At the end of this week, we will choose that man. He will be the first in a new breed of super-soldier. And they will personally escort Adolf Hitler to the gates of Hell. Johann Schmidt/Red Skull

View Quote [Steve meets Col Phillips in Italy; Philips is not pleased to see him]
Phillips: Well, if it isn't "the Star-Spangled Man With A Plan". What is your plan today?
Rogers: I need the casualty list from Azzano.
Phillips: You don't get to give me orders, son.
Rogers: I just need one name, Sergeant James Barnes from the 107th.
Phillips: [To Peggy] You and I are gonna have a conversation later that you won't enjoy.
Rogers: Please tell me if he's alive, sir. B-A-R-
Phillips: I can spell. I have signed more of these condolence letters today than I would care to count. But the name does sound familiar. I'm sorry.
Rogers: What about the others? Are you planning a rescue mission?
Phillips: Yes, it's called "winning the war."
Rogers: But if you know where they are, why not at least...
Phillips: They're 30 miles behind the lines through some of the most heavily fortified territory in Europe. We'd lose more men than we'd save. But I don't expect you to understand that because you're a chorus girl.
Rogers: I think I understand just fine.
Phillips: Well, then, understand it somewhere else. If I read the posters correctly, you got someplace to be in 30 minutes.
Rogers: [Looks on the map to see where the HYDRA base is located] Yes, sir, I do.

View Quote [Col. Phillips argues with Dr. Erskine over Steve Rogers' selection]
Phillips: You don't win wars with niceness, Doctor. [He takes a grenade and pulls the pin] You win wars with guts. [Tosses it to where the candidates are training] Grenade!
Rogers: [Dives on grenade as soldiers scatter] Get away! Get back! [They soon realize it's a dud grenade and are amazed at Steve's bravery] Is this a test?
Phillips: [Embarrassed; to Dr. Erskine] He's still skinny. [Walks away]

View Quote Fernando Wood: I've asked you a question, Mr. Stevens, and you must answer me. Do you or do you not hold that the precept that "all men are created equal" is meant literally? Is that the true purpose of the amendment? To promote your ultimate and ardent dream to elevate—
Thaddeus Stevens: The true purpose of the amendment, Mr. Wood, you perfectly named, brainless, obstructive object?
Fernando Wood: You have always insisted, Mr. Stevens, that Negroes are the same as white men are.
Thaddeus Stevens: The true purpose of the amendment... I don't hold with equality in all things, only with equality before the law and nothing more.
Fernando Wood: That's not true! You believe that Negroes are entirely equal to white men. You've said it a thousand times—
George Pendleton: For shame! For shame! Stop prevaricating and answer Representative Wood!
Thaddeus Stevens: I don't hold with equality in all things, only with equality before the law and nothing more.
George Pendleton: After the decades fervent advocacy on behalf of the colored race—
James Ashley: He's answered your questions! This amendment has naught to do with race equality!
George Pendleton: You have long insisted, have you not that the dusk-colored race is no different from the white one?
Thaddeus Stevens: I don't hold with equality before in all things, only with equality before the law and nothing more.
George Pendleton: Your frantic attempt to delude us now is unworthy of a representative. It is, in fact, unworthy of a white man!
Thaddeus Stevens: How can I hold that all men are created equal, when here before me stands, stinking, the moral carcass of the gentleman from Ohio? Proof that some men are inferior, endowed by their Maker with dim wits, impermeable to reason, with cold, pallid slime in their veins instead of hot red blood! You are more reptile than man, George! So low and flat, that the foot of man is incapable of crushing you!
George Pendleton: How dare you!
Thaddeus Stevens: Yet even you, Pendleton, who should have been gibbeted for treason long before today, even worthless unworthy you ought to be treated equally before the law! And so again, sir, and again and again and again I say: I do not hold with equality in all things. Only with equality before the law.

View Quote Abraham Lincoln: Since we have the floor next in the debate, I thought I'd suggest you might... temper your contributions so as not to frighten our conservative friends?
Thaddeus Stevens: Ashley insists you're ensuring approval by dispensing patronage to otherwise undeserving Democrats.
Abraham Lincoln: I can't ensure a single damn thing if you scare the whole House with talk of land appropriations and revolutionary tribunals and punitive thisses and that's—
Thaddeus Stevens: When the war ends, I intend to push for full equality, the Negro vote and much more. Congress shall mandate the seizure of every foot of rebel land and every dollar of their property. We'll use their confiscated wealth to establish hundreds of thousands of free Negro farmers, and at their side soldiers armed to occupy and transform the heritage of traitors. We'll build up a land down there of free men and free women and free children and freedom. The nation needs to know that we have such plans.
Abraham Lincoln: That's the untempered version of reconstruction. It's not... It's not exactly what I intend, but we shall oppose one another in the course of time. Now we're working together, and I'm asking you—
Thaddeus Stevens: For patience, I expect.
Abraham Lincoln: When the people disagree, bringing them together requires going slow till they're ready to make up—
Thaddeus Stevens: Ah, shit on the people and what they want and what they're ready for! I don't give a goddamn about the people and what they want! This is the face of someone who has fought long and hard for the good of the people without caring much for any of 'em. And I look a lot worse without the wig. The people elected me! To represent them! To lead them! And I lead! You ought to try it.
Abraham Lincoln: I admire your zeal, Mr. Stevens, and I have tried to profit from the example of it. But if I'd listened to you, I'd have declared every slave free the minute the first shell struck Fort Sumter; then the border states would've gone over to the Confederacy, the war would've been lost and the Union along with it, and instead of abolishing slavery, as we hope to do in two weeks, we'd be watching helpless as infants as it spread from the American South into South America.
Thaddeus Stevens: Oh, how you have longed to say that to me. You claim you trust them—but you know what the people are. You know that the inner compass that should direct the soul toward justice has ossified in white men and women, North and South, unto utter uselessness through tolerating the evil of slavery. White people cannot bear the thought of sharing this country's infinite abundance with Negroes.
Abraham Lincoln: A compass, I learnt when I was surveying, it'll point you True North from where you are standing, but it's got no advice about the swamps and deserts and chasms you'll encounter along the way. If in pursuit of your destination you plunge ahead, heedless of obstacles, and achieve nothing more than to sink in a swamp, what's the use of knowing True North?

View Quote Thaddeus Stevens: I wish you'd been present.
Lydia Hamilton Smith: I wish I'd been.
Thaddeus Stevens: It was a spectacle.
Lydia Hamilton Smith: You can't bring your housekeeper to the House. I won't give them gossip. This is enough. This is... it's more than enough for now.
Thaddeus Stevens: Read it to me again, my love.
Lydia Hamilton Smith: Proposed.
Thaddeus Stevens: And adopted.
Lydia Hamilton Smith: Adopted. An amendment to the Constituion of the United States. Section One. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.
Thaddeus Stevens: Section two.
Lydia Hamilton Smith: Congress shall have power to enforce this amendment by appropriate legislation.

View Quote The point, John, is that the Soviets and the American military industrial complex has the entire flag waving patriotic world right by the balls.

View Quote Sgt. Johnny Gallagher: I think you're going to prison, Walter.
Thomas Boyette: You don't know where I'm going.

View Quote Sgt. Johnny Gallagher: Who you working for?
Thomas Boyette: Johnny, that information is privileged and confidential. I can tell you it pays very well.
Sgt. Johnny Gallagher: Who? Who pays you?
Thomas Boyette: Everybody pays me. I'm a public servant.
[Boyette laughs as he leaves the basement]
Sgt. Johnny Gallagher: You're a walking zero, Tom. You're a walking **** ZERO, Tom!