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Life's Pleasures Quote by Tommy Lee Jones

"I like everything Meryl does. I like watching her come to work.. I don't care.. I like everything about her. I like watching her drink coffee. I don't care what she does.. She can do no wrong in my eyes"

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It is devotion delivered with the blunt force of a Tommy Lee Jones line reading: no poetry, no qualifiers, just a series of escalating admissions that land like confession and dare you to laugh. The repetition of "I like" and the shrugging "I don't care" are doing more than praising Meryl Streep; they’re stripping away the normal professional distance Hollywood pretends to maintain. He isn’t admiring a "great performer" in abstract. He’s narrating the ordinary intimacy of a set: showing up, drinking coffee, existing between takes. That’s where the real subtext lives: the awe isn’t only for the finished product on screen, but for the discipline of the craft in motion.

The deliberate banality of the details is the point. Saying he likes watching her "come to work" frames Streep not as an untouchable icon but as a worker so skilled that even her routine is compelling. It’s also a savvy act of mythmaking: turning the mundane into evidence of greatness, the way fans treat celebrities, except here it’s a peer doing it, which gives the worship a kind of earned legitimacy.

"She can do no wrong in my eyes" reads like hyperbole, but it’s also a public declaration of trust. In an industry built on ego and leverage, Jones is signaling something rare: total confidence in another actor’s choices. The charm is that he refuses to intellectualize it. He makes reverence sound like instinct, which is exactly how star power becomes consensus.

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APA Style (7th ed.)
Jones, Tommy Lee. (2026, January 11). I like everything Meryl does. I like watching her come to work.. I don't care.. I like everything about her. I like watching her drink coffee. I don't care what she does.. She can do no wrong in my eyes. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-like-everything-meryl-does-i-like-watching-her-183741/

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Jones, Tommy Lee. "I like everything Meryl does. I like watching her come to work.. I don't care.. I like everything about her. I like watching her drink coffee. I don't care what she does.. She can do no wrong in my eyes." FixQuotes. January 11, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-like-everything-meryl-does-i-like-watching-her-183741/.

MLA Style (9th ed.)
"I like everything Meryl does. I like watching her come to work.. I don't care.. I like everything about her. I like watching her drink coffee. I don't care what she does.. She can do no wrong in my eyes." FixQuotes, 11 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-like-everything-meryl-does-i-like-watching-her-183741/. Accessed 12 Feb. 2026.

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Tommy Lee Jones (born September 15, 1946) is a Actor from USA.

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