Let me explain something you already know. I'm from Texas and we understand the nature of a border. From what I've seen, vigilant Texans are being ordered to stand down and allow criminals to pass. Mr. President, prepare to see Texans ignoring those orders.

Tommy Lee Jones

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Kindness and politeness are not overrated at all. They're underused.

Tommy Lee Jones

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I don't see people as groups, I see them as individuals.

Tommy Lee Jones

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Lose the chrome-plated sissy pistol and get yourself a Glock.

Tommy Lee Jones

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I always told my children when they whined... Only the boring are bored.

Tommy Lee Jones

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What I want from each and every one of you is a hard-target search of every gas station, residence, warehouse, farmhouse, henhouse, outhouse and doghouse in that area.

Tommy Lee Jones

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All my life I've had the privilege to make my living with my imagination, and the most important thing has been to see my creative life grow. I was educated to do that and have lived accordingly.

Tommy Lee Jones

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I think that no matter how much you don't like yourself or the drama of your life you can still find some comedy in it.

Tommy Lee Jones

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Characters with no integrity are just as interesting as characters with lots of integrity.

Tommy Lee Jones

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No director wants to be directed, but no good director... would shy away from the good ideas of others.

Tommy Lee Jones

shy directors ideas

Ethnic stereotypes are boring and stressful and sometimes criminal. It's just not a good way to think. It's non-thinking. It's stupid and destructive.

Tommy Lee Jones

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I like everything Meryl does. I like watching her come to work.. I don't care.. I like everything about her. I like watching her drink coffee. I don't care what she does.. She can do no wrong in my eyes.

Tommy Lee Jones

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The world's not a very comfortable place if you have a nightmare to face.

Tommy Lee Jones

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My idea in terms of managing a narrative, or in thinking in my creative life, is that you could easily argue that the past, the present and the future all occur simultaneously, and if you can postulate that, then you're not strictly bound to a linear narrative.

Tommy Lee Jones

past ideas thinking

Normal people with normal problems can be hilarious.

Tommy Lee Jones

normal problem people

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

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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.

Tommy Lee Jones

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As a child of West Texas, I identify with Hispanic culture every bit as much as I do North American culture.

Tommy Lee Jones

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I fear other actors who are not prepared. And I fear directors who are afraid.

Tommy Lee Jones

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I don't consider my private feelings to be relevant in any way, actually.

Tommy Lee Jones

relevant feelings way

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

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