Tommy Lee Jones Quotes

I do them all for the money, I really do.

It is interest alone which does it, and it is interest alone which can be trusted.

I am not very introspective.

Every time you choose a perfume, you are voting. And, of course, I hope you vote for me. Not only for my ego, but for my pocketbook. The more you buy, the more money I make.

I work because I have issues and questions and feelings and thoughts that I want to have a look at. I'm not in need of, or wanting, particularly, to know what other folk are up to.

I'm an introspective dude.

I don't interest myself that much.

Nobody takes any change seriously unless there's some money involved.

It all comes down to money. If the money is right, I'll fight anybody, any time. I'll hit my grandma in the face if the price is right.

There's money to be made, and I want mine.

Not everybody's actions are based on ideas. Some people's actions are based on profit.

I appreciate your applause, but I don't do it for applause. I do it for cash, it's much better.

I have never dissected my personal life. What sense would it make?

When people don't have any curiosity about themselves, that is always a bad sign.

If I had to study and work hard, it would have to have the reward of a lot of cash.

You find out what you think by talking to yourself.

I don't publish the books to make money, not at all.

I am really puzzled to understand myself.

I've been in a situation where I was after the money.

The only subject I know anything about is myself and I don't know that too clearly.

As an individual doing a podcast, you don't get even remotely rich. It's not something to do for money.

I don't think I've ever laid out a batch of songs that pick myself apart the way that these do.

The music business is motivated by money. Music is motivated by energy and feelings.

Testing oneself is best when done alone.

All writing is an act of self-exploration. Even a grocery list says something about you; how much more does a novel say?