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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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actor
Nationality: american
Birth: September 15, 1946

Topics

Me I Can Want Quit Actor Shoot

My aesthetic is pretty classic. I like to keep things simple but appreciate the details.

Simple Appreciate Details Aesthetic

If your treat an individual... as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Treat Will Become Individual Your

It's basketball; it's always good to blow a team out.

Good Team Basketball Always Out

As you know, low demand and high supply means a drop in value of anything, including the dollar.

Robert Kiyosaki

Value You Know Dollar High Anything

The purer our message, the more compelling it is to consumers.

Angela Ahrendts

More Message Consumers Our Purer

I soon gave up instruction for self-teaching.

Up Soon Instruction Gave

Every weekend from, like, 1974 to 1978, I'd trudge over to the Greenwich library, which gathered up almost every major newspaper in the country. I would sit there all day long and read and read and read the reviews. I remember being twelve or thirteen and writing to Judith Crist, Pauline Kael, and Roger Ebert.

Day Writing Library Weekend Remember

I was a very, very careful printer when I used 8-by-10 film. I probably spent more time on printing than anything else. The more the prints were appreciated, the more time I spent on them.

Time More Printing Anything Film

When you think of Grimm's fairy tales, they are deeply, deeply psychological. They're so powerful, so bloody, and really, really disturbing. Think about five-year-olds reading that stuff. Even 'Little Red Riding Hood' is a really freaky story. Grandma is gobbled up by a wolf, and the wolf is going to eat the girl. That's scary stuff.

Girl Red Reading Story Think Wolf

Most of the writers in TV are from L.A. or New York, and those are places where people are cynical and snarky. And they fly from L.A. to New York in an airplane over this vast, expansive land where people aren't snarky; they're a lot more like the 'Parks and Rec' characters.

New York People Fly Airplane New

I was always shy and had a huge fear of being onstage.

Fear Shy Always Being Had Onstage

Going to religious places gives me clarity. When I am sitting there, I am in a state of gratitude with my defence mechanism down and am open to receiving that energy, that gives me clarity as at that time, you are listening to your heart. The heart shows you the direction in life. The mind exists only to execute your emotion.

Life Gratitude Heart Time I Am Mind

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