Tommy Lee Jones Quotes

It's important for me as an actor to know the entire script before you start shooting, and especially if you're directing, you don't want to be struggling with anything.

Tommy Lee Jones

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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The sick soon come to understand that they live in a different world from that of the well and that the two cannot communicate.

Jessamyn West

LiveWorldSickUnderstandTwoWell

God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.

Andre Gide

GodThroughUsDependsAchieved

Who in their right mind goes into a fight they think they're going to lose?

Max Holloway

FightMindThinkLoseRightGoing

John Cleese was a big hero of mine. He grew up in Weston Super Mare near Bristol where I grew up; he was always very tall and gangly, but he was smart and used his physicality in a very funny way. I used to think, 'Well he came from Weston and he did it, so there's a chance for me.'

Stephen Merchant

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Babies did not attract me, and I was altogether without the maternal sense so highly developed in small and adolescent girls.

Rita Levi-Montalcini

MeSmallWithoutAttractSenseDid

Usually, about 2 hours before a game, I stuff in a nice peanut butter and jelly with chocolate milk.

Rob Gronkowski

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I didn't ever think of it as a social thing at the time. I took it as a good story. Maybe because I've always been kind of progressive so I never thought of it, you know.

Rod Steiger

GoodTimeStoryThinkThoughtYou

Somehow, my music really suits doctors making out in the syringe room.

Mat Kearney

MusicSuitsOutRoomMakingDoctors

For the past two years, President Obama has promised our children the moon, stars, rainbows, unicorns and universal health care for all. But the White House Santa's cradle-to-grave entitlement mandates are a spectacularly predictable bust.

Michelle Malkin

StarsChildrenHealthPastMoon

Maybe some people have written us off, but I think the new music today has also invigorated us.

Lou Gramm

MusicTodayPeopleThinkNewUs

Hip-hop from the beginning has always been aspirational. It always broke that notion that an artist can't think about money as well. Just so long as you separate the two and you're not making music with business in mind. At some point, it has to be real when they touch it, when they listen to it. Something has to resonate with them that's real.

Jay-Z

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I want to do everything. That's my problem.

Joshua Bell

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