Tommy Lee Quotes

I did the marching band all throughout junior high and high school. Music was one of my favorite things in school.

I am such a gearhead. In my recording studio, I personally engineer and edit everything on computers.

I always told my children when they whined... Only the boring are bored.

Lose the chrome-plated sissy pistol and get yourself a Glock.

Kindness and politeness are not overrated at all. They're underused.

What I want from 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.

Nikki lives around the corner from me and I see him all the time. We talk a lot, and of course we're still friends. That was our baby, Motley Crue, we put that band together.

All my life I've had the privilege to make my living with my imagination, and the most important thing has been to see my creative life grow. I was educated to do that and have lived accordingly.

No director wants to be directed, but no good director... would shy away from the good ideas of others.

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

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.

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.

Imagine what you’ll know tomorrow

The world's not a very comfortable place if you have a nightmare to face.

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.

You know what the most destructive force in the universe is? Regret.

I fear other actors who are not prepared. And I fear directors who are afraid.

As a child of West Texas, I identify with Hispanic culture every bit as much as I do North American culture.

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.

I don't consider my private feelings to be relevant in any way, actually.

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.

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.'- Tommy Lee

The most important question in American cinema, I've learned, is 'When is lunch?'

Why is it that the hot chicks never can sing?

I'm an actor, I'm always looking for work. I was born to do that.

Normal people with normal problems can be hilarious.

Cormac McCarthy's language is perfect. He is in my view the greatest living American prose stylist.

Acting is fun for me and it doesn't really matter how, whether it's hard work or easy work, it's always fun.

I don't see people as groups, I see them as individuals.

You know what's weird, I just write to write, with no intention, I just write.

I'm happy doing what I'm doing, and if you have that kind of attitude then everything else from there on is a bonus.

It sounds kind of strange, but Jail time was almost a good experience for me.

Human beings are glorious and preposterous characters.

When I was a little kid, I took tap and ballet. I've always loved to dance. I'm a rhythm machine.

I hate rude behavior in a man. I won't tolerate it.

I think any stereotyping is too much.

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.

The Radiohead record, 'The Bends' is my all-time favorite record on the planet.

Well, some people die and then they sell more records, go figure.

One day I would love to do rock a gig on the moon - how rad would that be? Isn't Richard Branson flying planes to outer space? Mötley Crüe could be the first band to play on the moon.

A lot of hip-hop artists wear fur, and they think it's a status symbol. That doesn't register for me; I just see dead animals.

No one really buys records anymore. You can look at sales and do that math real quick. Unfortunately, it's fast food in the music industry. People don't ingest full records anymore.

I don't really put too much emphasis on what somebody else might think of it. Otherwise your putting limits on yourself.

Sometimes when you have children they're the opposites of you.

I look upon pride as a sin.

I don't do anything that is not fun. I just don't do it.

I try as hard as I can for everything to be different from one movie to the next.

Meryl Streep does not make mistakes. Sometimes the world just can't keep up.

I still play but for some reason, I am having so much fun playing guitar and singing that I don't really miss it because I've done it for so long like twenty-something years with Motley.

I don't direct movies for a living.