Tommy Lee Jones Quotes
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I don't consider my private feelings to be relevant in any way, actually.
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No director wants to be directed, but no good director... would shy away from the good ideas of others.
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The world's not a very comfortable place if you have a nightmare to face.
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I've worked with more than 50 directors and I've paid attention since day one. That's pretty much been my education, apart from studying art history and shooting with my own cameras. I've seen 50 different sets of mistakes and 50 different ways of achieving.
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Characters with no integrity are just as interesting as characters with lots of integrity.
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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.
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I don't do anything that is not fun. I just don't do it.
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I think that no matter how much you don't like yourself or the drama of your life you can still find some comedy in it.
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I don't fight anybody anytime or anywhere.
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Human beings are glorious and preposterous characters.
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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.
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I'm a believer in belief. Faith is something that works - it causes people to do things, it has results. It's an intangible, indefinable, very real thing. And it moves people, sometimes to atrocity. And sometimes to survival.
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The most important question in American cinema, I've learned, is 'When is lunch?'
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I fear other actors who are not prepared. And I fear directors who are afraid.
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Age will flatten a man.
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As a child of West Texas, I identify with Hispanic culture every bit as much as I do North American culture.
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What I want from each and every one of you is a hard-target search of every gas station, residence, warehouse, farmhouse, henhouse, outhouse and doghouse in that area.
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I don't see people as groups, I see them as individuals.
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I haven't a clue if there is life on other planets but I'd be charmed if we found a unicellular organism on Mars. It would change our whole concept of life on Earth.
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I try as hard as I can for everything to be different from one movie to the next.
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I think any stereotyping is too much.
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Let me explain something you already know. I'm from Texas and we understand the nature of a border. From what I've seen, vigilant Texans are being ordered to stand down and allow criminals to pass. Mr. President, prepare to see Texans ignoring those orders.
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I know a lot of cowboys and I've done a little work on ranches with cattle, and those people become your friends, and keep their word.
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I don't direct movies for a living.
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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.
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Acting is fun for me and it doesn't really matter how, whether it's hard work or easy work, it's always fun.
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The tactic of leading people into... a war that doesn't make any sense by telling them they are under attack, and if they raise any objection they're unpatriotic, is a very old tactic. And it doesn't intimidate me.
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I always told my children when they whined... Only the boring are bored.
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Meryl Streep does not make mistakes. Sometimes the world just can't keep up.
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I've worked with some very good directors and some very bad ones. I learned a great deal from both. From the bad, untalented people, you learn what not to do. And when you work with very highly talented people, you want to emulate them.
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