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

" 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. "

Tommy Lee Jones

" 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

" Normal people with normal problems can be hilarious. "

Tommy Lee Jones

" 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. "

Tommy Lee Jones

" I have nothing against interviews. I don't pursue them. When people I work for deem it appropriate, I'm perfectly willing to serve. "

Tommy Lee Jones

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

Tommy Lee Jones

" The quality of one's emotional life changes over the years, doesn't it? But the basic instincts and desires, greed and hope, seem to remain constant. In the larger scope of things, there's a sense of fulfillment to living a creative life. So I guess that's what keeps me going. "

Tommy Lee Jones

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

Tommy Lee Jones

" I've worked in the film business for 45 years, and I want to keep on growing as a filmmaker. I want to see my visual life grow and be increasingly effective in this world. "

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

" 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 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. "

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

" My home town is very small and very remote and we don't have a movie house. "

Tommy Lee Jones

" 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'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. You just leave the bad part out. "

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. "

Tommy Lee Jones

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

Tommy Lee Jones

" 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. "

Tommy Lee Jones

" You can't instruct an audience to laugh, but what you can do is read well and understand the spirit and subtleties, if there are any, in the dialogue. "

Tommy Lee Jones

" It's no fun to be a struggling young actor. It's a desperate thing, no way to be happy. If you have any alternative, you should take it. "

Tommy Lee Jones

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

Tommy Lee Jones

" I'm always happy to have a job. "

Tommy Lee Jones

" Human beings are glorious and preposterous characters. "

Tommy Lee Jones

" 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. "

Tommy Lee Jones

" I think any stereotyping is too much. "

Tommy Lee Jones

" 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. "

Tommy Lee Jones

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

Tommy Lee Jones

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

Tommy Lee Jones