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Tommy Lee Jones
Total Quotes 47
I Don't Direct Movies For A Living.
Direct
I Don't Analyze Things Like Titles.
Titles
I'm An Actor, I'm Always Looking For Work. I Was Born To Do That.
Actors
Born
Looking For Work
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.
People
Directors
Want
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.
Art
Mistake
Cameras
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.
People
Mind
Together
What Appeals To Me? There Are Things, Points Of View, Uses Of The Language, Habits Of Dress, Ways Of Thought And Believing That Came To Me From My Grandparents And Came To Them From Theirs. Things That Are Of Good Use In Any Situation, No Matter What The Future May Hold.
Believe
Views
Grandparent
I Look Upon Pride As A Sin.
Pride
Looks
Sin
I Don't Fight Anybody Anytime Or Anywhere.
Fighting
Acting Is Fun For Me And It Doesn't Really Matter How, Whether It's Hard Work Or Easy Work, It's Always Fun.
Fun
Hard Work
Acting
I Try As Hard As I Can For Everything To Be Different From One Movie To The Next.
Trying
Next
Different
Meryl Streep Does Not Make Mistakes. Sometimes The World Just Can't Keep Up.
Mistake
Doe
World
In The Political World, The Only Position I Have Is Voter. I'm Not A Spokesman For Anything.
Political
World
Voters
I Think Any Stereotyping Is Too Much.
Thinking
Too Much
Stereotype
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.
Cowboy
People
Done
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.
School
Imagination
Special
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.
Thinking
People
East
I Don't Do Anything That Is Not Fun. I Just Don't Do It.
Fun
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.
Mars
Earth
Clue
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.
Past
Thinking
Ideas
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.
Military
Successful
Patriotism
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.
Actors
Want
Quitting
I Don't Consider My Private Feelings To Be Relevant In Any Way, Actually.
Feelings
Way
Relevant
Normal People With Normal Problems Can Be Hilarious.
People
Normal
Problem
Born: September 15, 1946
Occupation: Actor
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