Cherry Jones Quotes

I never go to the movies when I'm doing a play.

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• I can now say that the more I learnt about Islam, the more tolerant I became.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Say
  • Now
  • Islam

• I lived in America for a long time before I started working as an actor. Some actors show up on set and have never done an American accent before, so they rely on a slew of technical mechanisms. Part of what makes an accent is understanding why people speak that way - you have to understand the culture.

  

  Idris Elba
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• I have a wonderful husband, and we have had a great life.

  

  Natalie Babbitt
  • Life
  • Great
  • Husband

• Never count on the crowd to take care of you.

  

  Eddie Rickenbacker
  • Never
  • Care
  • Take Care

• We think of the 1950s as an oppressive time in the culture, and indeed it was, but it was also in many ways a more secular moment, and one in which great scientific achievements flourished. I don't want to get too gauzy about this, but there was much more respect for science as a necessary part of society.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Time
  • Great
  • Society

• The '90s are really the 'Sex and the City' woman, and I think, right now, the new contemporary woman is the 'Lipstick Jungle' woman.

  

  Candace Bushnell
  • City
  • Woman
  • Sex

• I have always been a coward as a child. I am not very brave. I am very aware of the fact that I am not very gutsy.

  

  Cai Guo-Qiang
  • Child
  • Brave
  • Coward

• The new Disney cartoon 'Bambi' is interesting because it's the first one that's been entirely unpleasant.

  

  Manny Farber
  • Interesting
  • First
  • Disney

• My parents took me to a movie, and I remember wanting to sit apart from them for some reason. I wanted to be a big boy or whatever. I remember looking up on that screen. It was a movie about medieval knights. All I remember is saying, 'I want to do that. I want to make movies.'

  

  Tate Donovan
  • Remember
  • Want
  • Parents

• It's hard for me to understand how working-class people support themselves.

  

  Barbara Kruger
  • People
  • Support
  • Understand

• Great scientific contributions have been techniques.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • Great
  • Been
  • Contributions

• Today, the biggest bottleneck to the growth of a corporation is availability of good talent.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
  • Good
  • Today
  • Growth

• We know the fans love us to death, and the people that hear out music love our music.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • People
  • Music
  • Death

• If something touches me, I cry. That's it. I'm a bit raw, a bit rubbish, really. Often, a director will say to me, 'I don't think this is a scene where your character cries.' And all I can say is, good luck with that!

  

  Olivia Colman
  • Good
  • Character
  • Luck

• 'Nil By Mouth' was a bit autobiographical, but as I always pointed out at the time, that's not my dad.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • Time
  • Dad
  • Always

• My mother never watched me train in Romania. She wasn't allowed, it just wasn't done back then. My training was paid for by the government. My parents were not at the Olympics with me, either. I never expected them to be.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Done
  • She
  • Mother

• The first win came very quick, and I didn't know what it meant to win a major championship. I was a teenager, I was very young. I didn't know what I was doing. I just needed some time to get settled in on the tour.

  

  Inbee Park
  • Time
  • Know
  • Win

• I think if you create something and you get an audience for it, then the monetization part is really secondary.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • Think
  • You
  • Audience

• Beauty is truth's smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • She
  • Truth
  • Perfect

• China was the worst place I've ever been in my life.

  

  J. R. Smith
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Place

• As a songwriter, pop music really is a love and a joy and a science, and I feel like a lot of people look at pop music with a very formulaic perspective in numbers and patterns, but an outsider would think that the process is very natural.

  

  Halsey
  • People
  • Music
  • Love

• I knew I wasn't the person to play Ponyboy because I'm a girl, but without knowing it, I understand that was a place I could put all the stuff that I was feeling.

  

  Kari Matchett
  • Play
  • Person
  • Ponyboy

• I never go to the movies when I'm doing a play.

  

  Cherry Jones