Tommy Lee Jones Quotes

• Let me explain something you already know. I'm from Texas and we understand the nature of a border. From what I've seen, vigilant Texans are being ordered to stand down and allow criminals to pass. Mr. President, prepare to see Texans ignoring those orders.

  Tommy Lee Jones

  Texas, Order, Understanding

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• Kindness and politeness are not overrated at all. They're underused.

  Tommy Lee Jones

  Morning, Kindness, Politeness

  "Me and Mr Jones". Interview with Gaby Wood, www.theguardian.com. July 21, 2002.

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• I think that no matter how much you don't like yourself or the drama of your life you can still find some comedy in it.

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  Drama, Thinking, Matter

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

  Tommy Lee Jones

  Pistols, Chrome, Glocks

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

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  Children, Bored, My Children

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• What I want from each and every one of you is a hard-target search of every gas station, residence, warehouse, farmhouse, henhouse, outhouse and doghouse in that area.

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  Gas Stations, Target, Want

  "Fictional character: Deputy Marshal Samuel Gerard". "The Fugitive", www.imdb.com. July 29, 1993.

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• Imagine what you’ll know tomorrow

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  Tomorrow, Imagine, Knows

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• 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.

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  Imagination, Creative, Important

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

  Tommy Lee Jones

  People, Perception, Groups

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• 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 destructive.

  Tommy Lee Jones

  Stupid, Thinking, Criminals

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• 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.

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  War, People, Tactics

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• Human beings are glorious and preposterous characters.

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  Character, Glorious, Humans

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• Characters with no integrity are just as interesting as characters with lots of integrity.

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  Integrity, Character, Interesting

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• No director wants to be directed, but no good director... would shy away from the good ideas of others.

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  Ideas, Directors, Shy

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• Age will flatten a man.

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  Men, Age, Aging

  "Fictional character: Ed Tom Bell". "No Country for Old Men", www.imdb.com. 2007.

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• 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.

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  Real, Moving, People

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• The most important question in American cinema, I've learned, is 'When is lunch?'

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  Lunch, Important, Cinema

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

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  Children, Texas, Culture

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• I don't get it. If you're saying, Tommy Lee, you don't fit the image of the East Coast, social elitist wealthy people who comprise Harvard, the only thing I can say is you have no idea what comprises Harvard.

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  Ideas, People, East

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• I like everything Meryl does. I like watching her come to work.. I don't care.. I like everything about her. I like watching her drink coffee. I don't care what she does.. She can do no wrong in my eyes.

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  Coffee, Eye, Doe

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

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  World, Faces, Nightmare

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

  Tommy Lee Jones

  Directors, Actors, Prepared

  "Tommy Lee Jones: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. August 8, 2012.

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

  Tommy Lee Jones

  Views, Perfect, Stylist

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• Meryl Streep does not make mistakes. Sometimes the world just can't keep up.

  Tommy Lee Jones

  Mistake, Doe, World

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• Normal people with normal problems can be hilarious.

  Tommy Lee Jones

  People, Normal, Problem

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