Author: Tommy Lee Jones

Quotes

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

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

In the course of American history, great steps are taken by ordinary people, and ordinary people are not perfect.

In the course of American history, great steps are taken by ordinary people, and ordinary people are not perfect.

- 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.

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

I have worked on very good movies that have been buried, and I've worked on some resounding mediocrities that have been paraded through the marketplace like they were masterpieces.

I have worked on very good movies that have been buried, and I've worked on some resounding mediocrities that have been paraded through the marketplace like they were masterpieces.

- Tommy Lee Jones

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 military movies were automatically successful we'd make nothing but military movies. But seriously, patriotism is one thing that all Americans have in common.

- 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.

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

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.

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

Partnerships are good engines for narrative.

Partnerships are good engines for narrative.

- Tommy Lee Jones

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