Tommy Lee Jones Quotes

You know, I don't really think you have to play nice guys. - 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

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. - Tommy Lee Jones

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

The most important question in American cinema, I've learned, is 'When is lunch?' - Tommy Lee Jones

Partnerships are good engines for narrative. - Tommy Lee Jones

Normal people with normal problems can be hilarious. - Tommy Lee Jones

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

No director wants to be directed, but no good director... would shy away from the good ideas of others. - Tommy Lee Jones

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