Tommy Lee Jones Quotes
If military movies were automatically successful we'd make nothing but military movies. But seriously, patriotism is one thing that all Americans have in common.
Quotes to Explore
-
A man must know how to fly in the face of opinion; a woman to submit to it.
-
I've never tried to be something I'm not.
-
I've pretty much behaved like a knucklehead my entire life.
-
Beauty is the promise of happiness.
-
I just don't watch a lot of TV.
-
My parents took me to a movie, and I remember wanting to sit apart from them for some reason. I wanted to be a big boy or whatever. I remember looking up on that screen. It was a movie about medieval knights. All I remember is saying, 'I want to do that. I want to make movies.'
-
Here at this site, Solyndra expects to make enough solar panels each year to generate 500 megawatts of electricity. And over the lifetime of this expanded facility, that could be like replacing as many as eight coal-fired power plants.
-
I'm very interested to see how this new painting will go - I know I want it big and stark, and as I said, I follow the muse, and that's when it always works perfectly for me.
-
I've made the decision not to do radio anymore.
-
A big part of my life is music education because it changed my life - but arts, academics and athletics should all be equally treated in the school.
-
I'll never forget one time a fan came up to me crying, and told me, 'You really inspire me to be me. I feel OK to be myself now.'
-
A story is a story is a story. The only difference is in the techniques you bring to bear. There are always limitations on what you can and can't do. But I enjoy that. Just like when you write a sonnet or haiku, there are rules you have to abide by. And to me, playing within the rules is the fun part. It keeps the brain fresh.
-
Murder is about power and the more powerful women get the more it will change the good that they do and the bad that they do.
-
All of us profit from being corrected - if we're corrected in a positive way.
-
There is a cultural movement in the white working class to blame problems on society or the government, and that movement gains adherents by the day.
-
I had never dreamt I'd become an actress. It was destiny that put me in the right place at the right time and gave me the right opportunities.
-
I try to call the play as quickly as I possibly can and then shut up and let the crowd roar because, to me, the crowd is the most wonderful thing in the whole world when it's making noise.
-
The knowledge of reality, achieved by means of the complete sensory equipment, must be expressed artistically in terms of a medium which appeals to the memory of all sensory experience - but only through the eye.
-
If I wait for someone else to validate my existence, it will mean that I’m shortchanging myself.
-
The writer is all alone.
-
I think a part of being successful or trying to be successful is staying true to who you are. Be genuine.
-
I went through the extremes of amazing notoriety and also the dreaded things that you never thought you'd have to live through. Not everything works the way you want it to, but if I sit back and think, 'Am I happy about this?' Yeah. I wouldn't have done anything any better.
-
I could be 30 pounds heavier if I played football. But I play baseball, and I do Pilates.
-
If military movies were automatically successful we'd make nothing but military movies. But seriously, patriotism is one thing that all Americans have in common.
