Tommy Lee Jones

“I do not have a sense of humor of any recognizable sort.”

“I don't think I would describe my sense of humor. Doesn't sound like the kind of thing I'd do.”

“In the course of American history, great steps are taken by ordinary people, and ordinary people are not perfect.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”