Tommy Lee Jones Quotes

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.
Tommy Lee Jones

Life, Change, Whole

I haven't had a lot of comedy come my way as a performer.
Tommy Lee Jones

Comedy, Performer

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.
Tommy Lee Jones

Work, Done, Friends

I look upon pride as a sin.
Tommy Lee Jones

I love cinema.
Tommy Lee Jones

I personally don't live a nihilistic life, I don't have any use for it.
Tommy Lee Jones

Life, Live, Personally

I think any stereotyping is too much.
Tommy Lee Jones

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.
Tommy Lee Jones

Life, Yourself, Find

I want to make movies about my country from my point of view.
Tommy Lee Jones

Movies, Country, Point

I want to photograph what I see and put it in a dramatic context. I'm an actor and a writer, and I want to tell these stories and present these shapes, colors and movements as I see them, as I see them serve a narrative. As I see that narrative serve an audience. That's what I want to do.
Tommy Lee Jones

Put, Tell, Actor

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.
Tommy Lee Jones

Faith, Real, Sometimes

I'm a hedonist.
Tommy Lee Jones

I'm always happy to have a job.
Tommy Lee Jones

I've made some bad movies. And I really enjoyed it!
Tommy Lee Jones

Movies, Bad, Made

I've never really known what glamour is.
Tommy Lee Jones

If you don't hurt anybody or try to steal anything, you'll be fine in the South.
Tommy Lee Jones

Hurt, Try, Anybody

If you want to know about my politics, the only way to do that is to look at my work.
Tommy Lee Jones

In the political world, the only position I have is voter. I'm not a spokesman for anything.
Tommy Lee Jones

Political, Position, Spokesman

It's no fun to be a struggling young actor. It's a desperate thing, no way to be happy. If you have any alternative, you should take it.
Tommy Lee Jones

Happy, Fun, Young

My home town is very small and very remote and we don't have a movie house.
Tommy Lee Jones

Home, Small, Movie

My idea in terms of managing a narrative, or in thinking in my creative life, is that you could easily argue that the past, the present and the future all occur simultaneously, and if you can postulate that, then you're not strictly bound to a linear narrative.
Tommy Lee Jones

Life, Future, Past

No director wants to be directed, but no good director... would shy away from the good ideas of others.
Tommy Lee Jones

Good, Others, Away

No, I don't think about the myth of the West. It's not the kind of thinking I do. That's more suited to people who live in big towns on the West Coast or East Coast, people who stay under a roof, in a room, all the time.
Tommy Lee Jones

Time, Live, Thinking

Partnerships are good engines for narrative.
Tommy Lee Jones

Good, Narrative, Engines

The most important question in American cinema, I've learned, is 'When is lunch?'
Tommy Lee Jones

Important, Learned, American

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Actor

Born: September 15, 1946

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