Dean Jones Quotes

After 50 years in the motion picture business, I'm still learning my trade. This recent shoot of 'Mandie and the Secret Tunnel' was a revelation. The two young directors, Joy Chapman and Owen Smith, represent a group of actors, directors, and cinematographers all over the country that never show up in New York or Hollywood.

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• Like in every peace process, and especially in Colombia, there all kinds of problems that will come through. Not only is the process by itself very complicated but it has lots of underground complications.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • Peace
  • Problems
  • Process

• One must always try to see the truth of a situation - it makes things universal.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Truth
  • Always
  • Try

• Every time you work, you have to do it all over again, to rid yourself of this dross. I suppose for a person who is not an artist or not attempting art, it is not dross, because it is the common exchange of everyday life.

  

  Carl Andre
  • Life
  • Time
  • Work

• There were wonderful moments when I was singing for the first time in the Olympia Theatre and I was pregnant with my son, which was very, very strange for a singer.

  

  Nana Mouskouri
  • Time
  • Moments
  • Singing

• Just because you're of the same sex, what difference does it make? Get married to whomever you want.

  

  Famke Janssen
  • Want
  • Sex
  • Just Because

• Adding 'just kidding' doesn't make it okay to insult the Principal.

  

  Nancy Cartwright
  • Insult
  • Okay
  • Principal

• If you ever meet an actor who's the child of actors, they'll never tell you that they wanted to be a star. But what I did realise early on was that I just wanted to be in that tribe.

  

  Jack Davenport
  • Star
  • Never
  • Child

• An American of the present day reading his Sunday newspaper in a state of lazy collapse is one of the most perfect symbols of the triumph of quantity over quality that the world has yet seen.

  

  Irving Babbitt
  • World
  • American
  • Perfect

• I try to stay focused.

  

  OMI
  • Try
  • Focused
  • Stay Focused

• Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • Death
  • Road
  • Find

• When I was starting out, I always wanted to be able to do everything - comedy and drama and action, and everything in between. Film is so diverse, and it's fun to be able to take advantage of all of it.

  

  Olivia Thirlby
  • Fun
  • Action
  • Comedy

• No one can be saved - in virtue of what he can do. Everyone can be saved - in virtue of what God can do.

  

  Karl Barth
  • God
  • Virtue
  • Everyone

• When I was young, no one got married. Now, all the young people, they want to get married, they want security. Now that my children's friends are getting married, I go to more weddings than I ever did when I was young.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • People
  • Children
  • Friends

• I want to carry a show, but there are not a lot of leading parts for people who are not celebrities.

  

  Aaron Lazar
  • People
  • Want
  • Carry

• My first paying job, when I was 15, I was a day camp counselor.

  

  Victoria Pratt
  • Job
  • Day
  • First

• I'm a passionate person, to a fault at times.

  

  Wale
  • Person
  • Passionate
  • Fault

• I'd like us to deliver a little message to all the men still out there who think it's the '50s, and coming home simply means watching television with a beer.

  

  Patricia Richardson
  • Men
  • Home
  • Beer

• I really love hip hop. My cousin Nas came out with an album 'Life Is Good,' and I love that album, but I also love Maroon 5.

  

  Yara Shahidi
  • Life
  • Good
  • Album

• The things that are hardest to shoot are the things where you want people just to feel very natural, and you want to do love scenes, and you want to do just kids hanging out and trying to get them to relax.

  

  Kevin Macdonald
  • People
  • Trying
  • Kids

• Fake friends believe in rumors. Real friends believe in you.

  

  Yolanda Hadid
  • Believe
  • Real
  • Friends

• Hebrew is the language I use to thank the Creator and, also, to swear on the road.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Road
  • Language
  • Creator

• I wrote a lot of 'Red Queen' wrapped in a blanket, cramped up while watching the snow come down.

  

  Victoria Aveyard
  • Up
  • Red
  • Snow

• We go up just into space - space is most commonly accepted to be 100 kilometres above the earth's surface, and we go up just beyond that to about 350,000 ft.

  

  David Mackay
  • Up
  • Earth
  • Space

• After 50 years in the motion picture business, I'm still learning my trade. This recent shoot of 'Mandie and the Secret Tunnel' was a revelation. The two young directors, Joy Chapman and Owen Smith, represent a group of actors, directors, and cinematographers all over the country that never show up in New York or Hollywood.

  

  Dean Jones
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