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 Copy Share Image
The world's not a very comfortable place if you have a nightmare to face. — Tommy Lee Jones Copy Share Image
I personally don't live a nihilistic life, I don't have any use for it. — Tommy Lee Jones Copy Share Image
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… — Tommy Lee Jones Copy Share Image
No director wants to be directed, but no good director... would shy away from the good ideas of others. — Tommy Lee Jones Copy Share Image
I fear other actors who are not prepared. And I fear directors who are afraid. — Tommy Lee Jones Copy Share Image
I don't play just villains. I like to have parts that are not simply villains. — Tommy Lee Jones Copy Share Image
If you don't hurt anybody or try to steal anything, you'll be fine in the South. — Tommy Lee Jones Copy Share Image
I try as hard as I can for everything to be different from one movie to the next. — Tommy Lee Jones Copy Share Image
As an actor I want to do as many takes as I can. I wanna shoot the scene... or shoot the shot 'til they… — Tommy Lee Jones Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
As a child of West Texas, I identify with Hispanic culture every bit as much as I do North American culture. — Tommy Lee Jones Copy Share Image
If you want to know about my politics, the only way to do that is to look at my work. — Tommy Lee Jones Copy Share Image
