Quotes By Tommy Lee Jones

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

I've never really known what glamour is.

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

It's no fun to be a struggling young actor. It's a desperate thing, no way to be happy. If you have any alternative, you should take it.

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

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.

I always told my children when they whined... Only the boring are bored.

I fear other actors who are not prepared. And I fear directors who are afraid.

I haven't had a lot of comedy come my way as a performer.

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.

I don't fight anybody anytime or anywhere.

My home town is very small and very remote and we don't have a movie house.

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.

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 look upon pride as a sin.

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.

Characters with no integrity are just as interesting as characters with lots of integrity.

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 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.

In the political world, the only position I have is voter. I'm not a spokesman for anything.

As a child of West Texas, I identify with Hispanic culture every bit as much as I do North American culture.

I think any stereotyping is too much.