#act

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

#i #i can #make #many #me

As an actor to watch an audience of people howl together in a single mind as a result of work you've done together with friends is a privilege. ↗

— Tommy Lee Jones

#audience #done #friends #howl #mind

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

— Tommy Lee Jones

#integrity #interesting #just #lots

Human beings are glorious and preposterous characters. ↗

— Tommy Lee Jones

#characters #glorious #human #human beings #preposterous

I want to photograph what I see and put it in a dramatic context. I'm an actor and a writer, and I want to tell these stories and present these shapes, colors and movements as I see them, as I see them serve a narrative. As I see that narrative serve an audience. That's what I want to do. ↗

— Tommy Lee Jones

#audience #colors #context #dramatic #i

It's no fun to be a struggling young actor. It's a desperate thing, no way to be happy. If you have any alternative, you should take it. ↗

— Tommy Lee Jones

#alternative #any #be happy #desperate #fun

The tactic of leading people into... a war that doesn't make any sense by telling them they are under attack, and if they raise any objection they're unpatriotic, is a very old tactic. And it doesn't intimidate me. ↗

— Tommy Lee Jones

#attack #intimidate #into #leading #make

Friends love misery, in fact. Sometimes, especially if we are too lucky or too successful or too pretty, our misery is the only thing that endears us to our friends. ↗

— Erica Jong

#especially #fact #friends #in fact #love

In a bad marriage, friends are the invisible glue. If we have enough friends, we may go on for years, intending to leave, talking about leaving - instead of actually getting up and leaving. ↗

— Erica Jong

#actually #bad #enough #friends #getting

And a tiny number of people in a few states make these decisions, and we're left with these options that are increasingly not attractive to the American people. ↗

— Hamilton Jordan

#american people #attractive #decisions #few #increasingly