I probably watch less than one hour of television a week. And when I do watch television, it’s usually a football game. Sometimes I’ll watch a news broadcast for a few minutes. Otherwise, I don’t have time. – Tommy Lee Jones
Cormac McCarthy’s language is perfect. He is in my view the greatest living American prose stylist. – Tommy Lee Jones
I’m kind of pleased with myself that I’ve got a tailor on Savile Row. I’m 68 years old. I deserve it. – Tommy Lee Jones
In the course of American history, great steps are taken by ordinary people, and ordinary people are not perfect. – Tommy Lee Jones
As it turns out, my grandmother, my mother, my wife, and my daughter are all women, and I like those people. I’m concerned about the issues that they face in their lives. So I’m a feminist, but that’s not all I am. – Tommy Lee Jones
As a child of West Texas, I identify with Hispanic culture every bit as much as I do North American culture. – Tommy Lee Jones
In the political world, the only position I have is voter. I’m not a spokesman for anything. – Tommy Lee Jones
I’ve worked with more than 50 directors ,and I’ve paid attention since day one. That’s pretty much been my education, apart from studying art history and shooting with my own cameras. I’ve seen 50 different sets of mistakes and 50 different ways of achieving. You just leave the bad part out. – Tommy Lee Jones
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
My grandmother grew up in a 19th-century world, and my daughter has grown up in a 21st-century world, and some issues, problems, dilemmas that these women face have not changed. – Tommy Lee Jones
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. – Tommy Lee Jones
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. – 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. – Tommy Lee Jones
Football was a wonderful experience for me. It was a means of, oh, I don’t know, sustaining for much of my youth. In times of trouble, I’ve always had football. I always knew I was a football player. And that was a comfort on many occasions. – Tommy Lee Jones
As an actor to watch an audience of people howl together in a single mind as a result of work you’ve done together with friends is a privilege. – Tommy Lee Jones
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. – Tommy Lee Jones