Tommy Lee Jones quotes

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. (Tommy Lee Jones)
I'm really concerned about the quality of education in the United States. I think it's going down, and I don't think we spend enough money on it. It's unhealthy for our society that we remove ourselves more and more every day from books, from reading, from writing. All areas of education need more emphasis. I think we're a bit lazy here in America. I believe in the ideal of the classic liberal education, and I also think athletics are very important to the education of young people.
Tommy Lee Jones
The world's not a very comfortable place if you have a nightmare to face.
Tommy Lee Jones
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.
Tommy Lee Jones
Kindness and politeness are not overrated at all. They're underused.
Tommy Lee Jones
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.
Tommy Lee Jones
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.
Tommy Lee Jones
Create turf, save water. Those are the two main principles. And, you know, keep everything alive. Maintain a game habitat. That's important so that you have an entire system at work. Cattle are going to do better, oddly enough, if the birds are doing good and the deer are doing good. You try to manage the whole thing.
Tommy Lee Jones
I'm one of those people who feels that agriculture is a creative act. It's a very fine art - that's the way I approach it.
Tommy Lee Jones
I refuse to be pessimistic. I don't believe in it. I hope that we can find a way to keep from destroying the earth.
Tommy Lee Jones
The old-timers thought, Well, fire's bad; we'll get rid of it. That was certainly a mistake. (Tommy Lee Jones)
The most important question in American cinema, I've learned, is 'When is lunch?'
Tommy Lee Jones
Normal people with normal problems can be hilarious.
Tommy Lee Jones
Characters with no integrity are just as interesting as characters with lots of integrity.
Tommy Lee Jones
I fear other actors who are not prepared. And I fear directors who are afraid.
Tommy Lee Jones
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.
Tommy Lee Jones
In the political world, the only position I have is voter. I'm not a spokesman for anything.
Tommy Lee Jones
No director wants to be directed, but no good director... would shy away from the good ideas of others.
Tommy Lee Jones
I always told my children when they whined... Only the boring are bored.
Tommy Lee Jones
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.
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 don't direct movies for a living.
Tommy Lee Jones
I look upon pride as a sin.
Tommy Lee Jones
As a child of West Texas, I identify with Hispanic culture every bit as much as I do North American culture.
Tommy Lee Jones
I don't do anything that is not fun. I just don't do it.
Tommy Lee Jones