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Human beings are glorious and preposterous characters.

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

I look upon pride as a sin.

Tommy Lee Jones

Football was a wonderful experience for me. It was a means of, oh, I don't know, sustaining for much of my youth. In times of trouble, I've always had football. I always knew I was a football player. And that was a comfort on many occasions.

Tommy Lee Jones

The entire elementary school in Rotan, Texas, presented a theatrical production of 'Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.' And the part of Sneezy fell to me.

Tommy Lee Jones

I don't analyze things like titles.

Tommy Lee Jones

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

Tommy Lee Jones

I'm an introspective guy when there's money in it.

Tommy Lee Jones

I'm always happy to have a job.

Tommy Lee Jones

I'm a hedonist.

Tommy Lee Jones

How do you play someone in a movie? How do you do that? It's impossible - unless you know how. How do you cut somebody open and take out their appendix and sew them back up and watch them get well? That's impossible - unless you know how.

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

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 don't direct movies for a living.

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

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

I don't fight anybody anytime or anywhere.

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

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

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

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'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 think any stereotyping is too much.

Tommy Lee Jones

I don't play just villains. I like to have parts that are not simply villains.

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

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

Tommy Lee Jones

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

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

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.

Tommy Lee Jones

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

Tommy Lee Jones

You are going to grow up whether you want to or not. It requires no effort.

Tommy Lee Jones

Human beings are glorious and preposterous characters.

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

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

Tommy Lee Jones

I don't have a favorite genre. I think 'genre' is a literary term. I don't have a favorite kind or type of movie. I like the ones that are good.

Tommy Lee Jones