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Tommy Lee Jones
Tommy Lee Jones
American Actor
Born: Sep 15, 1946
Good Life Me People Think You
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Kindness and politeness are not overrated at all. They're underused. Tommy Lee Jones
Kindness Politeness Overrated
The quality of one's emotional life changes over the years, doesn't it? But the basic instincts and desires, greed and hope, seem to remain constant. In the larger scope of things, there's a sense of fulfillment to living a creative life. So I guess that's what keeps me going. Tommy Lee Jones
Life Hope Me Creative Quality Greed Sense Living Changes Guess Constant Life Changes Seem Remain Emotional Emotional Life Instincts Over Years Scope Going Fulfillment Creative Life Larger Keeps Basic Things Desires
I felt like the luckiest kid in the world because God had put me on the ground in Texas. I actually felt sorry for those poor little kids that had to be born in Oklahoma or England or some place. I knew I was living in the best place in the world. Tommy Lee Jones
God Best Me World Sorry Living Kid Those Oklahoma Kids Some Born Had Put Knew Like Because Felt Texas Place Little Poor Little Kids Ground England Luckiest Actually
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. Tommy Lee Jones
Life Creative My Life Important Living Imagination All My Life Has-Been See Had Most Most Important Thing Make Important Thing Educated Been Accordingly Privilege The Most Important Creative Life Grow Lived Thing
In the course of American history, great steps are taken by ordinary people, and ordinary people are not perfect. Tommy Lee Jones
Great History People Not Perfect Perfect Taken Steps Course American Ordinary American History Ordinary People
There's an undeniable tradition of sexism in this country that ties into the move westward by people of European descent and different ways of looking at Manifest Destiny on the west side of the Mississippi River. Tommy Lee Jones
People Country Looking Side Ways Destiny Sexism River Undeniable Mississippi Mississippi River Ties Tradition West West Side Westward Move Different Manifest European Descent Different Ways
What appeals to me? There are things, points of view, uses of the language, habits of dress, ways of thought and believing that came to me from my grandparents and came to them from theirs. Things that are of good use in any situation, no matter what the future may hold. Tommy Lee Jones
Future Good Me Matter Language Thought Situation Ways Dress Habits Points Came Any May Hold Them Grandparents View Use Uses Appeals Believing Things
Partnerships are good engines for narrative. Tommy Lee Jones
Good Partnerships Narrative Engines
I don't fight anybody anytime or anywhere. Tommy Lee Jones
Fight Anybody Anytime Anywhere
As a child of West Texas, I identify with Hispanic culture every bit as much as I do North American culture. Tommy Lee Jones
Culture Every Bit Identify West Hispanic Texas North Child North American American American Culture Much
Cormac McCarthy's language is perfect. He is in my view the greatest living American prose stylist. Tommy Lee Jones
Language Living Perfect He Prose Greatest Stylist American McCarthy View
I don't play just villains. I like to have parts that are not simply villains. Tommy Lee Jones
Simply Like Parts Just Villains Play
I have nothing against interviews. I don't pursue them. When people I work for deem it appropriate, I'm perfectly willing to serve. Tommy Lee Jones
Work People Nothing Interviews Appropriate Willing Pursue Perfectly Against Them Deem Serve
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. Tommy Lee Jones
Life Future You Creative Past Thinking Strictly Easily Could Argue Idea Bound Simultaneously Terms Narrative Occur Linear Managing Then Creative Life Present
I haven't had a lot of comedy come my way as a performer. Tommy Lee Jones
Comedy Way Had Performer Come Lot
I haven't a clue if there is life on other planets but I'd be charmed if we found a unicellular organism on Mars. It would change our whole concept of life on Earth. Tommy Lee Jones
Life Change Other Our Earth Would Mars Charmed Concept Clue Planets Organism Whole Found
I don't direct movies for a living. Tommy Lee Jones
Living Direct Movies
I love cinema. Tommy Lee Jones
Love Cinema
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. Tommy Lee Jones
You Be Happy Happy Desperate Young Way No Fun Struggling Take Alternative Any Young Actor Should Fun Actor Thing
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
You Laugh Spirit Well Read Understand Audience Dialogue Any Subtleties
I personally don't live a nihilistic life, I don't have any use for it. Tommy Lee Jones
Life Live Any Personally Use
I don't do anything that is not fun. I just don't do it. Tommy Lee Jones
Just Anything Fun
I'm a hedonist. Tommy Lee Jones
Normal people with normal problems can be hilarious. Tommy Lee Jones
People Problems Hilarious Normal Normal People
I enjoy acting more and more than when I was 17. Tommy Lee Jones
Enjoy More More And More Than Acting
The world's not a very comfortable place if you have a nightmare to face. Tommy Lee Jones
You World Face Comfortable Very Place Nightmare
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