Top 100 Tommy Lee Sayings
#1. The angry man will defeat Himself in battle As well as in life.
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#2. 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.
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#5. The quad toms are a completely different animal than the standard drum set/trap kit. Playing wise and stylistically, they are two different beasts.
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#6. It's been a while since I've studied: since high school. It's a lot of work, a lot of work.
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#8. One of my favorite things in the world is to be seeing two people that are really old, still holding hands, still kissing.
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#9. I find that doing the drums last, coming from a drum history, really works well for me.
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#10. There was no way we were going to let this band hobble around on three legs. We chose the route that every professional actor, athlete and musician should do - leave the legend intact and bow out at the top.
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#11. On Ecstasy, Joan Rivers looks like Pamela Anderson, so imagine what Pamela Anderson looked like.
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#12. But you know what I'm trying to say, it's that there's a couple of really dangerous drugs out there and I've lost some friends to them.
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#13. The best thing about being rich is the freedom; freedom to do whatever you want whenever you want. It doesn't suck.
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#14. 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.
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#15. Obviously, I'm a little more responsible these days.
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#17. If Trent Reznor calls and says he needs a drummer for his tour ... I'm there.
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#18. Our music will continue to have an impact in people's lives long after we finally call it quits.
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#19. On our first record, man, I didn't know what I was doing. I was just playing. I was over playing. You're as green as you can be with no experience in recording or knowing how sometimes a song can work: when it's too much, when it's not enough, when it's not right.
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#20. I always look up to people like Michael Gambon and Tommy Lee Jones, and I hope that as I mature I will become as craggy as them.
Burn Gorman
#22. I really wanna get my paws on scoring a film.
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#23. I want out of 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.
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#24. I love touring Canada, and our Calgary fans are among the roughest and toughest.
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#25. I've worked with more than 50 directors and I've paid attention since day one. That's pretty much been my education, apart from studying art history and shooting with my own cameras. I've seen 50 different sets of mistakes and 50 different ways of achieving.
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#26. I don't think I would describe my sense of humor. Doesn't sound like the kind of thing I'd do.
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#27. When I was a little kid, I took tap and ballet. I've always loved to dance. I'm a rhythm machine.
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#28. 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.
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#29. I want to make movies about my country from my point of view.
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#30. I guess I've always been a groupie. My first date was a bull rider called Tommy Lee Bryant. We'd go to the rodeo every Saturday and Sunday. The bull riders were the cool guys.
Jerry Hall
#31. I've always been kind of a - you know, I have my moments, where I can be Tommy, and then I flip a switch; when you're on stage, you turn into this other personality.
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#32. The record is definitely a musical journey. It's kind of all over the place, which I like.
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#33. The Radiohead record, The Bends is my all-time favorite record on the planet.
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#34. Cormac McCarthy's language is perfect. He is in my view the greatest living American prose stylist.
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#35. Will and Tommy Lee are the only actors I've ever worked with where neither of them want to say any lines.
Barry Sonnenfeld
#36. I'm constantly evolving as a musician.
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#37. I just write ... if it's really good, it's going on the record. If it's average, it's going in the trash.
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#38. If you want to know about my politics, the only way to do that is to look at my work.
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#39. 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.
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#41. The most important question in American cinema, I've learned, is 'When is lunch?'
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#42. I am such a gearhead. In my recording studio, I personally engineer and edit everything on computers.
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#43. 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.
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#44. I don't think anybody should ever touch anybody in anger, ever.
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#45. The New York Dolls are the only band that we grew up on that we haven't played with.
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#46. I don't listen to anybody's full record anymore and when I did, I don't think I listened to the whole record. I'm sorry, and I don't care who it is, if it's the Beatles, I can't listen to an hour and a half of anybody straight so I guess that's just my personal preference.
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#47. I've always loved the mixture of crushing live drums with a programmed groove, that really cool blend, like in the verse there's a really funky drum beat that is programmed then it comes in to the chorus; you've got that enormous human feel where the band kicks in.
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#48. I remember being very influenced by 'Taxi Driver', and also Tommy Lee Jones in 'Coal Miner's Daughter' a little bit.
Sam Rockwell
#49. I start my own frat, and try out for the women's swim team.
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#50. My oldest boy is 14, and he's not in that kind of awkward stage where, when we talk about girls, or there's a hot girl walking by - they're just so shy; it's weird.
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#51. My home town is very small and very remote and we don't have a movie house.
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#52. John Bonham was probably the most influential in terms of playing style and timing.
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#53. Whether I'm writing solo stuff, electronic stuff, or material for Motley, I just write to write. I come up with it and put things in different piles.
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#54. Drums isn't my one thing anymore. I love to produce. I love to make tracks, write tracks, produce tracks, and I can't just sit back as a drummer anymore.
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#55. Why is it that the hot chicks never can sing?
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#56. No, I don't have a problem with my temper.
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#57. I'm a hopeless fu**ing romantic. That's a part of me that a lot of people don't know about. They know everything there is to know about another part of me, but not a thing about my heart.'-
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#59. You know, I don't really think you have to play nice guys.
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#60. I have nothing against interviews. I don't pursue them. When people I work for deem it appropriate, I'm perfectly willing to serve.
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#61. I also did some jail time a few years ago. Spent a whole summer in jail reading books. I pumped a ton of new knowledge and new thinking into myself.
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#62. One day, after practice, he came up behind me, tapped me on the shoulder, and as I turned around, he sucker-punched me and relocated my nose to the other side of my face. What up, Mr. Drum Captain? How's your drumming going, bro? Played any arenas lately?
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#63. 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.
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#64. So there we were shooting Jack Daniels into our veins, like what the fuck we can just drink it.
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#65. Well, Tommy Lee Jones is a little bit more intimidating. He's definitely a cowboy. He's from Texas.
Christina Milian
#66. 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.
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#67. 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.
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#68. I was always impressed by some of the progressive styles of guys like Neil Peart.
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#70. If you don't hurt anybody or try to steal anything, you'll be fine in the South.
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#71. I don't consider my private feelings to be relevant in any way, actually.
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#72. Aerosmith's 'Rocks' is on the list of my top favorite albums of all time.
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#73. Kindness and politeness are not overrated at all. They're underused.
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#74. 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.
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#75. We thought we had elevated animal behavior to an art form. But then we met Ozzy.
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#77. No, I don't think about the myth of the West. It's not the kind of thinking I do. That's more suited to people who live in big towns on the West Coast or East Coast, people who stay under a roof, in a room, all the time.
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#78. Phil Rudd from AC/DC was someone I really liked a lot ... Not because I was dazzled by his playing ability - he was just a rock, y'know?
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#79. It makes me feel like a very special person, that I'm able to make my living with my imagination. I developed a big respect for my calling while I was in school, and it remains with me to this day.
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#80. No director wants to be directed, but no good director ... would shy away from the good ideas of others.
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#81. I don't see people as groups, I see them as individuals.
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#82. 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.
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#83. In the political world, the only position I have is voter. I'm not a spokesman for anything.
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#84. That's the good part of having my past follow me, is that sometimes some of that stuff can help.
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#85. I think that when I did the Methods Of Mayhem record, some of the hip-hop stuff probably freaked a lot of Motley Crue fans out.
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#86. It's always interesting to me that we all hear music differently. It's an awesome experience to hear what other people hear.
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#88. The crowd is a pretty good indicator when it's good, because it's kind of a universal energy that gets passed around.
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#89. I was just reading some poetry, and it talked about how things start as one thing and change into another, and I just thought, what a great concept for a song.
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#90. Trust me: all of us walk around and look at each other, and without saying it, we all know we're thinking, 'Really dude? Were still here!' and pinch ourselves. Typically, careers have short life span, 10 years if you're lucky, so what we've done is amazing.
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#91. I'm really a cool, mellow guy. I'm not as crazy as everybody thinks.
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#92. People tell me not to do a soap, but it was a great learning experience because I became familiar with the technical aspects of the business. Besides, look who came out of soaps - Julianne Moore, Demi Moore, Tommy Lee Jones, Parker Posey, Kathleen Turner. All amazing people.
Sarah Michelle Gellar
#93. Tommy Lee Jones is hilarious. I would say, if you look at the body of his work, the character he is most like is the one in 'The Fugitive.' That's how he talks and jokes. That is the type of energy he has.
Will Smith
#94. As a child of West Texas, I identify with Hispanic culture every bit as much as I do North American culture.
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#95. 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.
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#96. 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.
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#97. A thousand years ago, everybody knew the Earth was the center of the universe. Five hundred years ago, they knew the Earth was flat. Fifteen minutes ago, you knew we humans were alone on it. Imagine what you'll know tomorrow.
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#98. I'm not Superman. I can't handle all of these women.
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#99. I'm driven by music. It's in my blood, and I've never been able to stay away from it for too long.
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#100. I always told my children when they whined ... Only the boring are bored.
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