Sheriff Len Skerritt Quotes in Fighting Mad (1976)

Sheriff Len Skerritt: [after arriving to break up a street fight and points his shotgun] Everybody freeze!

[to Tom]

Sheriff Len Skerritt: Drop that iron!

[Tom tosses it to the ground, but it ends up hitting one of the workers on the foot]

Sheriff Len Skerritt: Or am I going to have to start kicking asses and taking names?

Pierce Crabtree: You play, sheriff?

[Serves a tennis ball]

Pierce Crabtree: I don't play games.

Pierce Crabtree: It's not a game. It's a sport.

Sheriff Len Skerritt: Don't have time for them, either.

Pierce Crabtree: I told you to arrest the Hunter boy.

[Firmly serves a ball to his opponent]

Pierce Crabtree: Not half the people in the valley! You know, sheriff, a lot of folks didn't like the looks of all those old people being brought into town in handcuffs.

Sheriff Len Skerritt: You didn't tell me to make any arrests, Mr. Crabtree. I acted on by a complaint from a citizen. You.

Pierce Crabtree: What about my bulldozer? You could have held him on that, at least.

Sheriff Len Skerritt: I don't know that he did it. Whoever did do it, they did a damn good job. Didn't leave a trace.

Pierce Crabtree: I hate to say it, sheriff, but perhaps I should call on the FBI since this sabotage is too much for you local boys.

Sheriff Len Skerritt: My oldest brother's in the FBI. You can get back to your game, now, Mr. Crabtree. I'll just be running along.

Pierce Crabtree: Just a minute, sheriff. You should take up tennis. You might learn to like it.

Sheriff Len Skerritt: [after he gets knocked down by an enraged Tom and and angrily fires his gun in the air] DON'T FUCK WITH ME!