128 Quotes by Tommy Lee Jones

Meryl Streep does not make mistakes. Sometimes the world just can’t keep up.

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.

I don’t fight anybody anytime or anywhere.

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.

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

I’m a believer in belief. Faith is something that works – it causes people to do things, it has results. It’s an intangible, indefinable, very real thing. And it moves people, sometimes to atrocity. And sometimes to survival.

I know a lot of cowboys and I’ve done a little work on ranches with cattle, and those people become your friends, and keep their word.

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.

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