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" 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
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" I'm a hedonist. "
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" 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. "
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" I've never really known what glamour is. "
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" If you want to know about my politics, the only way to do that is to look at my work. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" I don't analyze things like titles. "
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" 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. "
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" I always told my children when they whined... Only the boring are bored. "
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" Human beings are glorious and preposterous characters. "
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" Characters with no integrity are just as interesting as characters with lots of integrity. "
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" I'm kind of pleased with myself that I've got a tailor on Savile Row. I'm 68 years old. I deserve it. "
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" My education as a filmmaker has been entirely practical. I started working professionally in the film business in 1970, and I've been at it steadily since, and I pay a lot of attention. "
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" I do not have a sense of humor of any recognizable sort. "
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" I've made some bad movies. And I really enjoyed it! "
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" 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. "
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" In the course of American history, great steps are taken by ordinary people, and ordinary people are not perfect. "
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" 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. "
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" I personally don't live a nihilistic life, I don't have any use for it. "
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" 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. "
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" I don't do anything that is not fun. I just don't do it. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" Cormac McCarthy's language is perfect. He is in my view the greatest living American prose stylist. "
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" 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. "
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" You are going to grow up whether you want to or not. It requires no effort. "
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