Tommy Lee Jones Quotes

It's not like it's hard to be decent and respectful and well-behaved. I do wait in line, and I do take the subway, and I do do my own grocery shopping, and I do take the kids to school.

I don't always think it's necessary for somebody to be nice all the time.

T stands for being nice. T stands for manners. T stands for being polite.

I just believe in common courtesy.

I can be nice - I don't need to be rude for no reason.

I'm not mean to fans because I'm a bad guy. I'm mean to them because they're rude.

I always try to be nice. I never want to be that person that anyone perceives as being rude or disrespectful, 'cause that's not me at all.

There can be no defence like elaborate courtesy.

I don't think you should have to try to be nice, I think most people are nice. I think being cheerful and nice is just a politeness.

A good upbringing means not that you won't spill sauce on the tablecloth, but that you won't notice it when someone else does.

People are pretty respectful for the most part.

Civility is not simply about manners.

Politeness is a desire to be treated politely, and to be esteemed polite oneself.

I hate it when people are impolite to waiters or to the valet or the guy in the supermarket. There's no need for that; it doesn't cost anything to be polite.

Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.

I don't like it when people don't hold the door. I don't know, that really bugs me... I guess I like manners.

For the most part, I think of PC as meaning Plain Civil. You treat people the way you'd like to be treated yourself, and that means not using language that is demeaning.

I know it's sappy, but I bet there's a market for civility and niceness out there that, while probably not as titillating as a junkyard scrap between shirtless adversaries, it'd sure be healthier.

Nice goes much further than mean.

I'm big on manners. I'm big on politeness. I'm big on gratitude.

I grew up in an environment where being polite was taken as a weakness. So I just fought everybody.

I was waiting for a train at Waverley Station in Edinburgh. My knee was hurting, so I asked a young man for his seat. He replied, 'There's one over there'. I said, 'Please', and when he refused I poured my water over him.

I think we need a rulebook saying that everyone should be lovely to each other. It doesn't cost anything to be nice.

It's so important to just be nice to everyone and be respectful.

I've always been a respectful kind of guy.