Best 37 quotes of Tommy Lee Jones on MyQuotes

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

Human beings are glorious and preposterous characters.

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

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

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.

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.

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 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.

I like everything Meryl does. I like watching her come to work.. I don't care.. I like everything about her. I like watching her drink coffee. I don't care what she does.. She can do no wrong in my eyes.

I look upon pride as a sin.

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.

Imagine what you’ll know tomorrow

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

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

I think any stereotyping is too much.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

Normal people with normal problems can be hilarious.

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

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.

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

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.

A thousand years ago, everybody knew the Earth was the center of the universe. Five hundred years ago, they knew the Earth was flat. Fifteen minutes ago, you knew we humans were alone on it. Imagine what you'll know tomorrow.