Tommy Lee Jones Quotes

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

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• I can't go to war with paparazzi.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • War
  • Go
  • Paparazzi

• If you look at the carrying capacity of agricultural areas throughout the world, their ecological habitats are changing. So I think we're looking at - in our lifetime - great collapses of food services.

  

  Dan Barber
  • World
  • Great
  • Food

• The atmosphere at my school was very competitive. Young girls were competing with each other every day for status, for leadership, for the affection of the teachers. I hated it.

  

  Zhang Ziyi
  • School
  • Day
  • Leadership

• The government, whether state or central, is elected. That means we have a responsibility to elect the right kind of leaders.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Government
  • Responsibility

• I have vanity and greed enough for one person. But at the same time, I feel in my bones you lose a lot of life's value if you don't see yourself as a member of the family of man.

  

  Ralph Waite
  • Life
  • Time
  • Family

• It usually starts with the director and any other creatives who may be involved at the start. It's a collaboration. I bring what I have naturally and, hopefully, what they cast me for, and then we start playing and tweaking until we have what they feel's right. It helps to have some artwork to inspire me, but I don't always get that luxury.

  

  Yuri Lowenthal
  • May
  • Inspire
  • Collaboration

• My hair is such a statement that it's like a neon sign asking for trouble.

  

  Natasha Lyonne
  • Like
  • Hair
  • Trouble

• I'm quite private. And I never wanted to be the biggest star in the world really. So in that sense I've got a good balance of doing great shows, of making an appearance every now and then and writing music, and I don't really have to do much else.

  

  Ellie Goulding
  • World
  • Good
  • Great

• I'm very much a gentleman in what I do.

  

  Little Richard
  • Gentleman
  • Much

• When I finally make up my mind that I want to do something, it's never been hard for me to do.

  

  Janet Jackson
  • Up
  • Mind
  • Want

• I would like my art to be about the possibility that each of us has to realize our connectedness with this great Spirit, whatever you want to name it, our inherent Buddha nature, Christ consciousness, primordial reality, the ground of being, God. Whether you want to go for a personal or impersonal perception of Spirit, is up to the individual.

  

  Alex Grey
  • Up
  • Great
  • God

• Women don't seem to think it's good enough; They write about it.

  

  Kingsley Amis
  • Good
  • Women
  • Enough

• I have six locks on my door all in a row. When I go out, I lock every other one. I figure no matter how long somebody stands there picking the locks, they are always locking three.

  

  Elayne Boosler
  • Long
  • Door
  • Figure

• I don't care what consequence it brings, I have been a fool for lesser things.

  

  Billy Joel
  • Things
  • Fool
  • Consequence

• Despite what people think, I was such a rule follower at school.

  

  Kristen Stewart
  • People
  • Thinking
  • School

• Ads are not written to entertain. When they do, those entertainment seekers rare little likely to be the people whom you want. This is one of the greatest advertising faults. Ad writers abandon their part. They forgot they are salesmen and try to be performers. Instead of sales, they seek applause.

  

  Claude C. Hopkins
  • People
  • Sales
  • Entertain

• We need a collective moment where we commit ourselves to long-term solutions.

  

  Gina Raimondo
  • Long
  • Solutions
  • Commit

• A man can convince anyone hes someone else but never himself.

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • Men
  • Convince

• It's the self that suffers, and there's a place where the self--ceases. I don't know how to say it. But I believe that the reality--the truth that I recognize in suffering as I don't in comfort and happiness--that the reality of pain is not pain. If you can get through it. If you can endure it all the way.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Believe
  • Truth
  • Reality

• Christian faith, as I understand it, is not primarily a matter of signing on for the proposition that there exists a Supreme Being, but the kind of commitment made manifest by a human being at the end of his tether, foundering in darkness, pain, and bewilderment, who nevertheless remains faithful to the promise of a transformative love.

  

  Terry Eagleton
  • Kind
  • Pain
  • Promise

• Mainly I make music, and you can do that until you drop dead.

  

  Grace Slick Starship
  • Music
  • Dead

• Sometimes I think of Abraham How one star he saw had been lit for me He was a stranger in this land And I am that, no less than he And on this road to righteousness Sometimes the climb can be so steep I may falter in my steps But never beyond your reach

  

  Rich Mullins
  • May
  • Sometimes
  • Stars

• 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
  • Actors
  • Scene
  • Shots