A character in Out of Sight (1998)

Jack Foley quotes from Out of Sight (1998)

George Clooney

Scenes with Jack Foley

7 scenes
Jack Foley
[in the prison library]

Hey! Sign says "shut the **** up," or can't you fellas read? [points to a sign that says "Quiet Please"]

Maurice "Snoopy" Miller

The **** you talkin' to man? You got a problem over there, Foley?

Jack Foley

Yeah, I got a problem: this is the dumbest ****in' shakedown in the history of dumb shakedowns. Five hundred bucks for a pillow?
...

Jack Foley

If you're smart, Ripley, you'll tell this guy to **** off.

Richard Ripley

Really?

Richard Ripley
[Maurice gives him a threatening stare]

Well, I - I - I don't know.

Jack Foley

First of all, if he kills you, then he's gonna get nothin'.

Maurice "Snoopy" Miller

Well, uh, the man don't just have to die, Foley. I mean, he could accidentally hurt himself falling down on something real hard, you know. Like a shiv, or my dick.

Richard Ripley
[whispers to Foley]

I'll pay. I'll pay it. Don't worry.

Jack Foley

If he falls on anything, Snoop, then they're transfer his ass outta here faster than you can throw a fight, and you're still gonna get nothin'.

Maurice "Snoopy" Miller

You know, last time I checked, man, this shit over here ain't got nothin' to do with you, Foley. Why don't you go outside man? Smoke a cigarette or some shit?

Jack Foley

You sure are easy to talk to. I was thinkin', if we met under different circumstances...if you were in a bar and I came up and we started talkin'...I wonder what would happen.

Karen Sisco

Nothing.

Jack Foley

If you didn't know who I was.

Karen Sisco

You'd probably tell me.

Jack Foley

Just saying if we met under different circumstances...

Karen Sisco

You have got to be kidding.

Karen Sisco
[at the hotel bar]

So tell me, Gary, what do you do for a living?

Jack Foley

How far do you want to go with this?

Karen Sisco

Not yet. Don't say anything yet.

Jack Foley

I don't think it works if we're somebody else. I mean, Gary and Celeste, what do they know about anything?

Karen Sisco

Well, this is your game, I've never played before.

Jack Foley

It's not a game. It's not something you play.

Karen Sisco

Well, does this make any sense to you?

Jack Foley

It doesn't have to. It's something that happens. It's like seeing someone for the first time... like you could be passing on the street, and you look at each other and for a few seconds... there's this kind of a recognition... like you both know something. The next moment, the person's gone, and it's too late to do anything about it. And you always remember it, because it was there, and you let it go, and you think to yourself, "What if I had stopped? If I had said something?"

Jack Foley

"What if, what if?" And it may only happen a few times in your life.

Jack Foley

Or once.

Karen Sisco

Or once. [pause] How'd you find me?

Jack Foley

Uh...Called your room from downstairs.

Karen Sisco

Oh. And if I had answered, what were you gonna say?

Jack Foley

I would say who I was, and do you remember me, and want to meet for a drink?

Karen Sisco

If I remembered you. I came here looking for you. All right, so then I would have said yes, but for all you know, I could have had a SWAT team waiting for you... why would you trust me?

Jack Foley

It'd be worth the risk.

Karen Sisco

You like taking risks.

Jack Foley

So do you.

Karen Sisco

What were you going to do with me?

Jack Foley

I hadn't really worked that part out yet. All I knew is that I liked you, and that I didn't wanna...leave you there on the side of the road and never see you again.

Karen Sisco

Then you waved to me in that elevator.

Jack Foley

Yeah, I wasn't sure if you caught that.

Karen Sisco

I couldn't believe it.

Jack Foley

By that time I had been...thinking about you a lot...and just wondering what it would be like if we met, if we could take a time-out.

Karen Sisco

I was thinking the same thing. I kept thinking, "What if we took a time-out?"

Jack Foley

If we... just spent some time together.

Jack Foley

There's something I want you to know. I wasn't just looking for a ****, if that's what you're thinking.

Karen Sisco

Or, I was...

Jack Foley

Why are you mad?

Karen Sisco

I was looking for some kinky thrill...you know, score with the bank robber. The way some women go for rough trade...

Jack Foley

All right. Now I can say that I **** a U.S. Marshal. Do you think I will?

Karen Sisco

I don't know.

Jack Foley

Mm-hmm. Come here. I know a guy...walks into a bank with a bottle, tells everybody it's nitroglycerin. He scores some cash off of the teller. On his way out, he drops the bottle. It cracks on the floor. He slips in it. He smacks up his head. They get him. The nitroglycerin was canola oil. I know more ****-up bank robbers than ones that know what they're doing. I doubt one in ten could tell you where the dye pack is. Most bank robbers are **** morons. For you to go to bed with one for kinky thrills, like you were saying, makes you as dumb as they are. Now, you are not dumb. Why would you think that? Why would you think that I would think that?

Karen Sisco

You're not dumb.

Jack Foley

Well, I don't know about that. I mean, you can't do three falls and think you have much of a brain.

Maurice "Snoopy" Miller
[realizing his gun is empty, as Foley points one at him]

You don't have an extra clip I can use, do you?

Jack Foley

No, I don't.

Maurice "Snoopy" Miller

You ain't never shot a gun before, have you?

Jack Foley

Not until recently, no.

Maurice "Snoopy" Miller

You nervous?

Jack Foley

A little, yeah.

Maurice "Snoopy" Miller

You know, in a situation like this, there's a high potentiality for the common mother****er to bitch out.

Jack Foley

So I figure, why take a chance? [pulls the trigger]

Karen Sisco

You think I'll shoot you?

Jack Foley

If you don't someone else will.

Karen Sisco

Put the gun down.

Jack Foley

I'm not going back.

Karen Sisco

Jack please don't make me do this. Put the gun down.

Jack Foley

No more timeouts.

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