The Best John Stillman Quotes

Tom: Do you think someone who had a nervous breakdown after four months at Fort Hood could survive five years in the Hanoi Hilton?

John: Hey, Nick.
Nick: Yeah?
John: Still need that paperwork from you.
Nick: Doctor was sick, can you believe it? Got another appointment tomorrow.
John: End of the week.
Nick: Yeah.
Lilly: Someone's afraid of needles.

Will: [drops a photograph of a smiling businessman on the table] Marten Jacobson. He left a wife, and a four-year-old boy...
John: Beaten... to death.
[Cole looks away guiltily]
Will: Look at him... LOOK at him!
[pulls Cole down to stare at Jacobson's photograph]

Lilly: [about the computer] Hey, boss, do you want me to do it?
Tom: That's okay, I have to learn how to use this thing sometime... Is it on?

John: You two believe in Martians?
Lilly: Is this the woman who disappeared in the 30s?
John: Audrey W. Metz. It was the end of the world!
Lilly: My grandmother was 8. Said she had nightmares for over a year.
Scotty: What the hell are you guys talking about?

John: Vine is here about Travis Whitman, the art dealer.
Lilly: His wife died last month. Fell down the stairs at their home.
John: Well, that's his story, at least. But now he's been charged with her murder.
Lilly: Really?
John: Lillian thinks he could be responsible for another death.
Lilly: Whose?
Lillian: My daughter's in 1968.They were both 18.
Lilly: What happened?
Lillian: Travis escorted Emma to her debutante ball. She died that night. From a fall down the stairs.
Lilly: That doesn't happen twice in a lifetime.
Lillian: It's the same death.
John: Emma's case was put on a shelf pretty quick after it came in.
Lilly: Was it ruled an accident?
John: No, it was handled as an S job, suspicious death. It meant no one looked at it too closely in '68.
Lilly: Well, it's 2006 now, and we like to look.

John: Where you gonna start?
Lilly: Crime scene.
Scotty: Queen Village.
Lilly: Some reason he thinks that's funny.

Lilly: Suddenly, everything precious in life became crystal clear.
John: Yeah, who do you want to be with when the world ends?
Nick: I want to be with the guy that knows it's a hoax.

Scotty: [after discovering a man squashed to death against a car window] ... Mr. Grabowski!
John: The postman?
Nick: Special delivery!

Lilly: Is there any reason why you're looking back on it now? Today?
John: What am I, one of your suspects?
Lilly: Well, you're avoiding my questions like one. Alright, I can take a hint - be mysterious.

[to Lilly]
Tom: Why do women always have "high hopes" for men who want to kill them?

Will: Early 50s, white kid singing black music... reminds me of Elvis.
John: I hate to admit it. I broke up with my junior high sweetheart because she joined the Elvis fan club.
Will: No.
John: Trini Rene. Back in the late 50s, the girls were either Elvis girls...
Will: Or Pat Boone girls, I remember.
John: I told Trini my family wouldn't approve of me going out with an Elvis girl.
[both chuckles]
John: I guess I was a square.
Will: No, man, you were a CUBE.
[more chuckling]