Tommy Lee Jones Quotes

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Tommy Lee Jones

Profession : Actor

Birth : September 15, 1946

I'm kind of pleased with myself that I've got a tailor on Savile Row. I'm 68 years old. I deserve it.

Tommy Lee Jones

I think any thinking person should be worried about climate change.

Tommy Lee Jones

I probably watch less than one hour of television a week. And when I do watch television, it's usually a football game. Sometimes I'll watch a news broadcast for a few minutes. Otherwise, I don't have time.

Tommy Lee Jones

In the course of American history, great steps are taken by ordinary people, and ordinary people are not perfect.

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I don't have a favorite genre. I think 'genre' is a literary term. I don't have a favorite kind or type of movie. I like the ones that are good.

Tommy Lee Jones

If you look at how people use the term 'western,' you can only conclude that it means a movie that has big hats and horses. And if you really want to sound like you've been thinking, then you'll use a term like 'genre.' But all the hell it seems to mean is big hats and horses. Which is not all that deeply analytical.

Tommy Lee Jones

My grandmother grew up in a 19th-century world, and my daughter has grown up in a 21st-century world, and some issues, problems, dilemmas that these women face have not changed.

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You are going to grow up whether you want to or not. It requires no effort.

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I felt like the luckiest kid in the world because God had put me on the ground in Texas. I actually felt sorry for those poor little kids that had to be born in Oklahoma or England or some place. I knew I was living in the best place in the world.

Tommy Lee Jones

I still think probably the only thing I'm suited for is being a boy from Texas.

Tommy Lee Jones

I play characters, and I try to play them in a manner that's appropriate to the script. Physical movement and vitality of language is part of character.

Tommy Lee Jones

I don't need much of a character in my life. I've already got one; my family knows who I am, and I don't have a reason to make an impression on the world around me unless it's in a professional context. Acting is not a personal experience; it's a job.

Tommy Lee Jones

How do you play someone in a movie? How do you do that? It's impossible - unless you know how. How do you cut somebody open and take out their appendix and sew them back up and watch them get well? That's impossible - unless you know how.

Tommy Lee Jones

Football was a wonderful experience for me. It was a means of, oh, I don't know, sustaining for much of my youth. In times of trouble, I've always had football. I always knew I was a football player. And that was a comfort on many occasions.

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I'm an introspective guy when there's money in it.

Tommy Lee Jones

The entire elementary school in Rotan, Texas, presented a theatrical production of 'Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.' And the part of Sneezy fell to me.

Tommy Lee Jones

It's important for me as an actor to know the entire script before you start shooting, and especially if you're directing, you don't want to be struggling with anything.

Tommy Lee Jones

There's an undeniable tradition of sexism in this country that ties into the move westward by people of European descent and different ways of looking at Manifest Destiny on the west side of the Mississippi River.

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I like to make movies on the west side of the Mississippi River, and a lot of times, the movies I direct have horses and big hats in them and get called westerns, but that's okay. I used to resent that, but I don't anymore.

Tommy Lee Jones

I try to be as good a director as I possibly can. I try to be prepared, and I hope everyone else is. The preparation, I suppose, means just about everything. Little things mean a lot.

Tommy Lee Jones