Quotes by Jeffrey Jones - Page 1

I've been awfully busy, and I haven't gone to many movies.
Jeffrey Jones / Actor
Busy
Gone
Havens
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This outfit called Los Angeles Theatre Works does readings of plays.
Jeffrey Jones / Actor
Los Angeles
Play
Reading
Theatre
Angeles
Los
Outfit
Plays
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Part of the film business is, if you want an apple, you buy an apple.
Jeffrey Jones / Actor
Apples
Film
Want
Apple
Film Business
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Ive done Hay Fever and this one was called Another Time by Ronald Harwood.
Jeffrey Jones / Actor
Another Time
Fever
Hay
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I just hope that some of the movies I'm in are still welcome years from now.
Jeffrey Jones / Actor
Stills
Welcome
Years
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If you're an employer, you want to hire an employee who'll do their job, not do your bidding.
Jeffrey Jones / Actor
Jobs
Bidding
Employee
Want
Employer
Hire
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Well, my brother was a schizophrenic, so I understood it in a different way from seeing my brother.
Jeffrey Jones / Actor
Brother
Different
Schizophrenic
Understood
Vision
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I got a phone call from Douglas Campbell and from Jerome Guthrie, who offered me a job out of the blue.
Jeffrey Jones / Actor
Jobs
Blue
Phones
Campbell
Douglas
Phone
Guthrie
Offered
Phone Call
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So when you make an impression in a certain kind of role, that tends to be the type of role that you get offered.
Jeffrey Jones / Actor
Impression
Kind
Roles
Type
Offered
Tends
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Well, I think that there is a connection between being a lawyer and a doctor and an actor. They kind of, in some ways, have the same appeal, I suppose.
Jeffrey Jones / Actor
Connections
Doctors
Thinking
Appeal
Doctor
Connection
Suppose
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Every actor wants to have a character that changes, that has some kind of movement, that gets from point A to point B, that doesn't just supply one note.
Jeffrey Jones / Actor
Actors
Character
Movement
Note
Supply
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In this day when God is often referred to as 'It' or 'She' or 'Goddess' for the sake of leveling, I must say I can't recall Satan ever being referred to as 'She.'
Jeffrey Jones / Actor
Goddess
Sake
Satan
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There may be the kinds of things that you may find interesting, but then there's also the practical reality of needing to make a living and this is what you have to choose from.
Jeffrey Jones / Actor
Needing
Practical
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I would like to feel that I have a range and that it's not just a matter of being a comic actor or a serious actor, because those are really artificial classifications, I think.
Jeffrey Jones / Actor
Actors
Artificial
Comic
Range
Serious
Thinking
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A lot of the reasons why something is a favorite thing are all things you don't necessarily see, the place, the people, the time, where you are, what it meant to you at the time.
Jeffrey Jones / Actor
All Things
Favorites Things
People
Reason Why
Time Where People
Time People See
Meant
Favorite Thing
Necessarily
Reasons
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Certainly Amadeus because it was a very powerful time for me, we filmed it in the Czech Republic at a time of lots of social and political change going on in that part of the world.
Jeffrey Jones / Actor
Czech
Czech Republic
Political
Powerful
Republic
Lots
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And from my character's point-of-view in Ravenous, he had been collected by Robert Carlyle's character, he had become infected by this ravenous, cannibalistic power, and he was making the best of it.
Jeffrey Jones / Actor
Character
Point Of View
Views
Collected
Infected
Robert
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I've gotten to go wonderful places, meet interesting and intelligent people, and I started of course in the theatre and continue to work in the theatre where there is some intelligence involved in it.
Jeffrey Jones / Actor
Intelligent
Interesting
People
Theatre
Work Intelligence People
Gotten
Intelligent People
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My job is to help the functioning of the story, not to draw attention to myself, but to make my characters function within the story, to work for the benefit of the story, to make the whole thing work.
Jeffrey Jones / Actor
Jobs
Attention
Character
Function
Benefit
Draw
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My son tried to work in films and he ultimately gave it up, he finally couldn't make a living, he couldn't support himself. He worked all the time and he didn't make enough money to have a house, have an apartment.
Jeffrey Jones / Actor
House
Son
Support
Time Work Money
Enough Money
Work Time Money
Finally
Ultimately
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I know a lot of people who are very good at their craft who have learned - people behind the camera - who really have a lot to offer because they know what they're doing, they know what to do, they've made their mistakes.
Jeffrey Jones / Actor
Cameras
Mistake
People
Good People Doing
Mistakes
Camera
Craft
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I only know from my own personal experience, and I personally feel that there's a cyclical nature to things, so you don't want to start making generalizations about how bad things have become in comparison to the old days.
Jeffrey Jones / Actor
Bad Things
Comparison
Feels
Generalization
Old Days
Want
Cyclical
Generalizations
Personal Experience
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But it's true, it's nothing new that decisions about what movies are to be made, and how they're to be made, and who's to be hired to do what, and whether you hire somebody to do their job, or whether you hire somebody to fill a position and you tell them what to do.
Jeffrey Jones / Actor
Nothing New
Decisions
Fill
Hire
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I think the same way about theatre, you go out there and you are creating a world for a moment that can actually have a real impact on people, present some kind of story that gives you something to think about when you walk away, feeling enriched - if it works out well.
Jeffrey Jones / Actor
Creating
Impact
Real
Theatre
Thinking
Enriched
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