Tommy Lee Jones

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

— Tommy Lee Jones

I'm always happy to have a job.

— Tommy Lee Jones

I don't see people as groups, I see them as individuals.

— Tommy Lee Jones

I personally don't live a nihilistic life, I don't have any use for it.

— 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…

— 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

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

— Tommy Lee Jones

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

— Tommy Lee Jones

If you don't hurt anybody or try to steal anything, you'll be fine in the South.

— Tommy Lee Jones

I try as hard as I can for everything to be different from one movie to the next.

— 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…

— Tommy Lee Jones

Partnerships are good engines for narrative.

— 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…

— Tommy Lee Jones

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

— Tommy Lee Jones

If you want to know about my politics, the only way to do that is to look at my work.

— Tommy Lee Jones

Age will flatten a man.

— 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…

— Tommy Lee Jones

I don't analyze things like titles.

— Tommy Lee Jones

Lose the chrome-plated sissy pistol and get yourself a Glock.

— Tommy Lee Jones

All my life I've had the privilege to make my living with my imagination, and the most important thing has been to…

— Tommy Lee Jones

Human beings are glorious and preposterous characters.

— Tommy Lee Jones

I want to photograph what I see and put it in a dramatic context. I'm an actor and a writer, and I…

— 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…

— 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…

— Tommy Lee Jones

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

— Tommy Lee Jones