Tommy Lee Jones
Tommy Lee Jones
Tommy Lee Jonesis an American actor and filmmaker. He has received four Academy Award nominations, winning a Best Supporting Actor for his performance as U.S. Marshal Samuel Gerard in the 1993 thriller film The Fugitive...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth15 September 1946
CountryUnited States of America
pride looks sin
I look upon pride as a sin.
cowboy people done
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.
war people tactics
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.
trying next different
I try as hard as I can for everything to be different from one movie to the next.
titles
I don't analyze things like titles.
direct
I don't direct movies for a living.
political voters world
In the political world, the only position I have is voter. I'm not a spokesman for anything.
real moving people
I'm a believer in belief. Faith is something that works - it causes people to do things, it has results. It's an intangible, indefinable, very real thing. And it moves people, sometimes to atrocity. And sometimes to survival.
tomorrow imagine knows
Imagine what you’ll know tomorrow
past thinking ideas
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.
directors actors prepared
I fear other actors who are not prepared. And I fear directors who are afraid.
actors want quitting
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.
faces world nightmare
The world's not a very comfortable place if you have a nightmare to face.
imagination creative important
All my life I've had the privilege to make my living with my imagination, and the most important thing has been to see my creative life grow. I was educated to do that and have lived accordingly.