

Let’s sit by the fire and take in these facts about the gentleman from Texas. Jones was the only foreigner to appear in a celebrity video to lift spirits after the 2011 earthquake and tsunami. He’s appeared in coffee and phone ads there since the early aughts and is beloved in the country. The Tommy Lee Jones biography may be rife with tears, scowls, and dead air, but it also has little fun facts such as his iconic status in Japan. He wrote his character’s final speech in The Eyes of Laura Mars and flung out gold such as the “Saturday morning cartoons” line in Under Siege.

But he’s been creating his own iconic lines for a while. His “I don’t care!” to Harrison Ford’s “I didn’t kill my wife!” in The Fugitive earned him an Oscar. He's also gracious, dapper, generous, and charming, and has written some of his most famous lines. He’s brainy, gutsy, rugged, and loves polo like no other. Think you have your Tommy Lee Jones trivia on lock? Sure, he’s made reporters cry and fellow actors extremely uncomfortable, but the world is much brighter with TLJ in it, right? Let’s look at a few facts about Tommy Lee Jones that might surprise you.
