Tommy Lee Jones Quotes

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

Lose the chrome-plated sissy pistol and get yourself a Glock.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

Imagine what you’ll know tomorrow

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.

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

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

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.

I don't consider my private feelings to be relevant in any way, actually.

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.

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

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

I don't see people as groups, I see them as individuals.

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

Normal people with normal problems can be hilarious.

I'm an actor, I'm always looking for work. I was born to do that.

Human beings are glorious and preposterous characters.

I think any stereotyping is too much.

Meryl Streep does not make mistakes. Sometimes the world just can't keep up.

I try as hard as I can for everything to be different from one movie to the next.

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

I look upon pride as a sin.

I don't fight anybody anytime or anywhere.

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.

I don't analyze things like titles.

I don't direct movies for a living.

It makes me feel like a very special person, that I'm able to make my living with my imagination. I developed a big respect for my calling while I was in school, and it remains with me to this day.

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

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.

Age will flatten a man.

You should never ask a horse or an actor to do something they cannot do. Wisdom will teach you to find out what they can do and then make it easy for them.

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

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

I do not have a sense of humor of any recognizable sort.

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