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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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