Tommy Lee Jones Quotes

Kindness and politeness are not overrated at all. They're underused.
Tommy Lee Jones

Kindness, Politeness, Overrated

Acting is fun for me and it doesn't really matter how, whether it's hard work or easy work, it's always fun.
Tommy Lee Jones

Work, Fun, Hard

I always told my children when they whined... Only the boring are bored.
Tommy Lee Jones

Children, Boring, Bored

Ethnic stereotypes are boring and stressful and sometimes criminal. It's just not a good way to think. It's non-thinking. It's stupid and destructive.
Tommy Lee Jones

Good, Stupid, Boring

Normal people with normal problems can be hilarious.
Tommy Lee Jones

Problems, Normal, Hilarious

As a child of West Texas, I identify with Hispanic culture every bit as much as I do North American culture.
Tommy Lee Jones

American, Child, Culture

If military movies were automatically successful we'd make nothing but military movies. But seriously, patriotism is one thing that all Americans have in common.
Tommy Lee Jones

Movies, Patriotism, Successful

The world's not a very comfortable place if you have a nightmare to face.
Tommy Lee Jones

Place, Face, Nightmare

All my life I've had the privilege to make my living with my imagination, and the most important thing has been to see my creative life grow. I was educated to do that and have lived accordingly.
Tommy Lee Jones

Life, Important, Living

As an actor I want to do as many takes as I can. I wanna shoot the scene... or shoot the shot 'til they make me quit.
Tommy Lee Jones

Actor, Takes, Quit

As an actor to watch an audience of people howl together in a single mind as a result of work you've done together with friends is a privilege.
Tommy Lee Jones

Work, Mind, Single

Characters with no integrity are just as interesting as characters with lots of integrity.
Tommy Lee Jones

Integrity, Characters, Lots

Cormac McCarthy's language is perfect. He is in my view the greatest living American prose stylist.
Tommy Lee Jones

Greatest, Perfect, Living

Human beings are glorious and preposterous characters.
Tommy Lee Jones

Human, Characters, Glorious

I don't analyze things like titles.
Tommy Lee Jones

Analyze, Titles

I don't direct movies for a living.
Tommy Lee Jones

Movies, Living, Direct

I don't do anything that is not fun. I just don't do it.
Tommy Lee Jones

I don't fight anybody anytime or anywhere.
Tommy Lee Jones

Fight, Anybody, Anywhere

I don't get it. If you're saying, Tommy Lee, you don't fit the image of the East Coast, social elitist wealthy people who comprise Harvard, the only thing I can say is you have no idea what comprises Harvard.
Tommy Lee Jones

Saying, Idea, Social

I don't play just villains. I like to have parts that are not simply villains.
Tommy Lee Jones

Play, Simply, Villains

I don't think I would describe my sense of humor. Doesn't sound like the kind of thing I'd do.
Tommy Lee Jones

Humor, Sense, Sound

I enjoy acting more and more than when I was 17.
Tommy Lee Jones

I fear other actors who are not prepared. And I fear directors who are afraid.
Tommy Lee Jones

Fear, Afraid, Prepared

I have nothing against interviews. I don't pursue them. When people I work for deem it appropriate, I'm perfectly willing to serve.
Tommy Lee Jones

Work, Nothing, Against

I have worked on very good movies that have been buried, and I've worked on some resounding mediocrities that have been paraded through the marketplace like they were masterpieces.
Tommy Lee Jones

Good, Movies, Through

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Actor

Born: September 15, 1946

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