Thomas Jane Quotes

• I’m of the mind that life is a risk, every time you leave your house it’s a risk, and I see no reason to go through life with my hands tied behind my back for any reason. I’d be foolish to let something stop me from doing what I love to do.

  Thomas Jane

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Mind

• Harrison Ford – one of my favorite actors – has a wonderful sense of character and depth and uniqueness to him, yet he’s able to just deliver the lines without putting any English on it.

  Thomas Jane

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Favorite, Character

• If I stay alert, then I can challenge myself, and by challenging myself, that helps me to stay alive and to hopefully take something away from the experience.

  Thomas Jane

  Topics in Experience

  Tags in Myself, Alive

• It’s kind of true that they just start making the same movie over and over again. It’s also true that the times dictate what kind of movies get made and what kind are not. So I’m always looking for something that’s a little fresh and something that I haven’t seen before.

  Thomas Jane

  Topics in Truth

  Tags in Movie

• I’m interested in the impact my movies have on people and how it affects them, and what they like and what they don’t like – and what they take away from it. What leaves an impression, you know?

  Thomas Jane

  Topics in Movies

  Tags in Like, Interesting, Impact

• I’m interested in people that don’t always do the right thing, its much more akin to what I know about life.

  Thomas Jane

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in People, Intresting

• Most of my career up until the last couple of years has basically been a training ground for me. Actors that came up in the ’50s and ’60s, they had the theater, and television was in its infancy.

  Thomas Jane

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Career

• People lose people, we lose things in our life as we’re constantly growing and changing. That’s what life is is change, and a lot of that is loss. It’s what you gain from that loss that makes life.

  Thomas Jane

  Topics in Life

  Tags in People, Change

• I think what makes us human – is our interconnectedness among people. It’s our ability to form and maintain relationships. It’s the barometer by which we call ourselves human.

  Thomas Jane

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in People, Relationships

• Some of the supporting roles that I’ve done as an actor, I took them because I knew that I would get to watch some of the leading guys in the movies, and also I’d get to work with them.

  Thomas Jane

  Topics in Work

  Tags in Actors And Acting

• I’m a really huge fan of the old romantic comedies from the ’30s and ’40s… Huge fan. I love all that stuff.

  Thomas Jane

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Romantic, Fans

• I still collect comics. I still have a great love and respect for the genre.

  Thomas Jane

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Collect, Collecting

• I want to make movies that I want to see, and what I miss and I’m not seeing.

  Thomas Jane

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Want

• My dad was an entrepreneurial businessman, and maybe I got some of his ability.

  Thomas Jane

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Businessman

• I spent a lot of years just learning my craft and falling down in front of the camera.

  Thomas Jane

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Learning

• I just have a respect for my audience. That seems to be pretty logical.

  Thomas Jane

  Topics in Respect

  Tags in Logical

• I can’t stand to see myself act. It just makes me cringe.

  Thomas Jane

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Make

• Earlier on in my career I felt that I had to hide behind a lot of different masks, and showboat ways of performing. Now, that’s a lie. The less I have to hide, the less I have to act.

  Thomas Jane

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Career

• To me, it’s the kiss of death when you start winking at the audience as an actor. I just never liked it. I don’t like it when we do monologues, looking into the character.

  Thomas Jane

  Topics in Death

  Tags in Actors And Acting

• It’s not that the film is violent, it’s that people have an issue with violence right now.

  Thomas Jane

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Violence

Thomas Jane (21)

Birth:	22nd February, 1969
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actor, Director, Producer, Screenwriter

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Today's Anniversary - 24th April

Births

• 1904 - Willem de Kooning
• 1934 - Shirley MacLaine
• 1930 - Richard Donner
• 1969 - Melinda Clarke
• 1973 - Lee Westwood

Deaths

• 1986 - Wallis Simpson
• 1942 - Lucy Maud Montgomery
• 1980 - Alejo Carpentier
• 1947 - Willa Sibert Cather
• 1976 - Mark Tobey