Top 84 Quotes by Tommy Lee Jones

About Tommy Lee Jones

These are some quotes by American author Tommy Lee Jones Actor, who was born on September 15, 1946.

You should never ask a horse or an actor to do something they cannot do. Wisdom will teach you to find out what they can do and then make it easy for them.

You should never ask a horse or an actor to do something they cannot do. Wisdom will teach you to find out what they can do and then make it easy for them.

Tommy Lee Jones

It's important for me as an actor to know the entire script before you start shooting, and especially if you're directing, you don't want to be struggling with anything.

It's important for me as an actor to know the entire script before you start shooting, and especially if you're directing, you don't want to be struggling with anything.

Tommy Lee Jones

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

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

Tommy Lee Jones

I don't direct movies for a living.

I don't direct movies for a living.

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.

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

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

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

Tommy Lee Jones

Human beings are glorious and preposterous characters.

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 want to tell these stories and present these shapes, colors and movements as I see them, as I see them serve a narrative. As I see that narrative serve an audience. That's what I want to do.

Tommy Lee Jones

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

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

Tommy Lee Jones

I still think probably the only thing I'm suited for is being a boy from Texas.

I still think probably the only thing I'm suited for is being a boy from Texas.

Tommy Lee Jones

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