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All Quotes by author - Tommy Lee Jones
" Acting is fun for me and it doesn't really matter how, whether it's hard work or easy work, it's always fun. "
" Al Gore has been one of my closest friends since the day we met, on the first day of college, 35 years ago. "
" 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 I want to do as many takes as I can. I wanna shoot the scene... or shoot the shot 'til they make me quit. "
" 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. "
" As it turns out, my grandmother, my mother, my wife, and my daughter are all women, and I like those people. I'm concerned about the issues that they face in their lives. So I'm a feminist, but that's not all I am. "
" 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. "
" 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. "
" 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. "
" Human beings are glorious and preposterous characters. "
" I always told my children when they whined... Only the boring are bored. "
" I do not have a sense of humor of any recognizable sort. "
" I don't analyze things like titles. "
" I don't direct movies for a living. "
" I don't do anything that is not fun. I just don't do it. "
" I don't fight anybody anytime or anywhere. "
" 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. "
" 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. "
" 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. "
" I don't play just villains. I like to have parts that are not simply villains. "
" I don't think I would describe my sense of humor. Doesn't sound like the kind of thing I'd do. "
" I enjoy acting more and more than when I was 17. "
" I fear other actors who are not prepared. And I fear directors who are afraid. "
" 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. "
" 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. "
" If you don't hurt anybody or try to steal anything, you'll be fine in the South. "
" 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. "
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