Tommy Lee Jones Net Worth

Tommy Lee Jones's Quotes

• Somebody's gonna give you some money to perform a job, you do your best to make 'em a good hand...
• It's no mean calling to bring fun into the afternoons of large numbers of people. That too is part of my job, and I'm happy to serve when called on.
• My thanks to the Academy for the very finest, greatest award that any actor can ever receive. The only thing a man can say at a time like this is -- I am not really bald.
• I do not have a sense of humor of any recognizable sort.
• [on how he learned to direct] 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. You just leave the bad part out.

Interesting Facts about Tommy Lee Jones

1. Never took an acting class.
2. He and Al Gore were roommates while the two were students at Harvard University. The two remain close friends.
3. Part time cattle rancher, owns 3,000-acre ranch near San Antonio, Texas.
4. Plays polo and raises polo ponies. His team won the U.S. Polo Association's Western Challenge Cup in 1993. Invites Harvard University's best polo players to his ranch to practice each fall.
5. Father's name was Clyde C. Jones -- he did not have a middle name, just an initial.
6. Father, with Kimberlea Cloughley, of Austin Leonard Jones (born November 9, 1982) and Victoria Jones (born September 3, 1991).
7. Real-life son, Austin Leonard Jones, played his son, Tommy, in Screen Two: Double Image (1986).
8. According to author Erich Segal, Jones and his then Harvard roommate Al Gore, were the models for the character Oliver Barrett IV in Love Story (1970).
9. Injured after falling from horse during polo match. [October 1998]
10. Writes most of his own most memorable lines in films: The Fugitive (1993)... when Richard Kimble (Harrison Ford) informs Marshal Gerard, "I didn't kill my wife," Gerard replies, "I don't care!" Under Siege (1992)... William Strannix's speech after he loses his mind: "Saturday morning cartoons... This little piggy... " Eyes of Laura Mars (1978) ... John Neville's revealing speech at the movie's ending.
11. Ten days after graduating from Harvard, he landed his first role in the Broadway production of "A Patriot for Me" (with Maximilian Schell), which closed after 49 performances. He got his agent after giving a letter of introduction to actress Jane Alexander. His story of how he found an agent and a Broadway job so quickly was written about in an issue of "Ripley's Believe It or Not".
12. Good friends with Al Gore, Willie Nelson, Gary Busey, Oliver Stone, Robert Duvall and Will Smith.
13. His ex-wife, Kate Lardner, is Ring Lardner's granddaughter.
14. Speaks Spanish fluently.
15. He is a first cousin of Boxcar Willie, a famous country singer.
16. Owns the movie rights to Cormac McCarthy's controversial novel "Blood Meridian", which many consider unfilmable.
17. Born on the exact same date as filmmaker and good friend Oliver Stone.
18. Was the studio's original (and preferred) choice to play Snake Plissken in John Carpenter's Escape from New York (1981). The studio was reluctant to cast Kurt Russell, who ultimately got the role, because of his previous work.
19. Has worked twice with actresses playing Katharine Hepburn. In The Amazing Howard Hughes (1977), he played Howard Hughes opposite Tovah Feldshuh as Hepburn. In The Missing (2003), his daughter is played by Cate Blanchett, who played Hepburn in The Aviator (2004)--another biopic about Hughes.
20. Is the only Texan to have played fellow Texan Howard Hughes. Leonardo DiCaprio (The Aviator (2004)), Jason Robards (Melvin and Howard (1980)), Terry O'Quinn (The Rocketeer (1991)), and Warren Beatty (Rules Don't Apply (2016)) were born in California, Illinois, Michigan and Virginia, respectively.