Raylan Givens quotes from Justified

Raylan Givens

Did you not wake up this morning thinking this was another opportunity to mess up some bad guy's day? I did.

Raylan Givens

You get in the weed business with teenagers, and it's their fault when things go wrong? You the type of fella who walks under a flock of birds, and is surprised when he ends up with shit on his face?

Raylan Givens

Oh I learned a bit. When I was a boy Arlo had this scam stealing mining equipment, shipping it south, trading it for cocaine. A couple of company men got wind of who was ripping them off and they went after Arlo and his crew. They shot up a couple spots including our house. They killed Caspar Johns. Wasn’t with the crew, was just living with us at the time and then this other fellow that Arlo had been  running with since high school. You get what I’m saying? Even before I went to Glencoe and trained to be a dead shot I seen people kill one another and I learned to be ready in case they came after me to do me harm. In other words I’ll kill four of you before you even clear your weapons and I’ll take my chances with the other two. And you see this star? That’s gonna make it legal. Now do we have an understanding here?

Raylan Givens

It's the kind of thing you drop soon as you discover girls. And yet here you are, all growed up, still dinging and donging and don't have the sense to ditch.

Raylan Givens

[standing over a dying Daryl] Didn't I tell you you were gonna wish I killed you? Well, don't you?

Raylan Givens

Wonderful things can happen when you sow seeds of distrust in a garden of assholes.

The Marshals' office has conducted an internal investigation under the proceedings that occurred at the hotel in question.

Raylan Givens

Well, lets just keep it simple, huh? He pulled first and I shot him.

Raylan Givens

You concerned about me coming down here?

Art Mullen

It's a small office, Raylan. I'm concerned when we switch brands of coffee.

Raylan Givens

You know, Boyd, I think you just use the Bible to do whatever the hell you like.

Boyd Crowder

Well, what do you think I like, Raylan?

Raylan Givens

You like to get money and blow shit up.

Raylan Givens

I guess I never thought of myself as an angry man.

Winona Hawkins

Well, you do a good job of hiding it, and I suppose most folks don't see it, but honestly, you're the angriest man I have ever known.

Raylan Givens

Looks like it hurts.

Boyd Crowder

Why, yes, Raylan. Thank you for noticing. Somebody shot me in the chest the other day.

Art Mullen

I got a call this morning from AUSA David Vasquez. Wants to talk to you about you shooting Boyd Crowder.

Raylan Givens

What's there to talk about? He pulled first. There was a witness.

Art Mullen

But you see, ten days ago you shot a man in Miami. Put it like this: you were in the first grade; bit a kid every week? They'd start to think of you as a biter.

Raylan Givens

Art tells me you were a sniper with the Rangers.

Tim Gutterson

Yeah, I was.

Raylan Givens

What's the longest you ever had to watch a target?

Tim Gutterson

Three days. Shitty little village outside Kandahar. You watch a man that long, you can get to know him better than his wife does. How he reads the paper, picks his nose, what glass he likes for tea, what one for milk. If he jerks off, what he looks at when he does. If he's nice to the dog when no one's around.

Raylan Givens

What's the trick to something like that? Keeping your focus?

Tim Gutterson

Well, they told us to come up with stories about ourselves and the target.

Raylan Givens

What do you mean, "stories"?

Tim Gutterson

Well, nothing elaborate. Imagine taking Shirley to the movies, watching Price is Right, eating takeout Chinese. They eventually stopped that, the business with the stories.

Raylan Givens

Why is that?

Tim Gutterson

They found some folks get so involved in the tales they're telling themselves, they grow to like the target. And when they got the green light, they couldn't pull.

Rachel Brooks

Got to ask. Why the hat?

Raylan Givens

Honestly? I tried it on one time, and it fit.

Art Mullen

Raylan, I got a courtesy call from the Harlan County Sheriff's Department — your daddy was arrested.

Raylan Givens

Did he kill anybody?

Raylan Givens

Tim, when you were working with Pinter, you ever come across a guy looks like a black Mr Clean? Dresses like the janitor in a rap video.

Tim Gutterson

Like it says Tommy Hilfiger on his coveralls?

Raylan Givens

Yeah, like he wears a t-shirt with his gators.

Tim Gutterson

Detroit accent, looks like he could dead-lift the back of a car?

Raylan Givens

....... Uh-huh.