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6. Tommy Lee Jones Improvised The Best Line In The Movie - "I Don't Care" - During The Dam Scene - The Fugitive
Most people remember The Fugitive for Harrison's Ford beard, and an astounding Tommy Lee Jones performance, for which he won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor, and he deserves even more credit than fans would ever notice.
The most memorable scene in the movie sees his marshall confronting Ford's wrongly accused Kimble in a dam, before the latter jumps to freedom. It's at this point where Ford, pointing a pistol at Jones, yells "I didn't kill my wife!" and Jones fires back "I don't care!"
The beauty of this line, of course, sums up Jones' position in the movie - he doesn't give a damn whether or not Ford committed the crime or not, it's his job to take him in, and that's all that matters. Working out whether he's innocent is for somebody else.
And it turns out that Jones actually improvised the line, which was originally written as the rather more clunky "So you didn't kill your wife..."