Jefferson Mays Quotes

The beauty of performance for me is finding details with which to betray character.

Jefferson Mays

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• I joined the Army at 19 as a soldier and spent about four and a half years with them. Then I broke my back in a freefall parachuting accident and spent a year in rehabilitation back in the U.K.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Army
  • Year
  • Soldier

• I am a little obsessed with surprise kitty.

  

  Hannah Simone
  • Surprise
  • Obsessed
  • Kitty

• My mother did all she could to control me, but at age 14 she sent me to a military school.

  

  Sam Donaldson
  • School
  • She
  • Mother

• There are too many books I haven't read, too many places I haven't seen, too many memories I haven't kept long enough.

  

  Irwin Shaw
  • Long
  • Memories
  • Enough

• I'm a big 'Firefly' fan. I'm a Nathan Fillion fan because of 'Firefly.'

  

  Taran Killam
  • Because
  • Fan
  • Big

• Polls that have been taken by kindergarten, first- and second-grade teachers indicate that 30 percent of the kids have been deprived in some way so that they are physically unable to keep up with the class.

  

  C. Everett Koop
  • Up
  • Kids
  • Way

• I achieved what I want to achieve and I want to continue doing something else.

  

  Marat Safin
  • Want
  • Doing
  • Achieve

• Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Nature
  • Man
  • Service

• I'm the Chris Martin of hip-hop.

  

  Bobby Ray Simmons Jr.
  • Hip Hop
  • Chris
  • Martin

• I'm not afraid of special effects, but I see them very much as a means to an end.

  

  Daniel Barber
  • End
  • See
  • Special

• I'm attempting to put myself in a bottle that will one day wash up on the beach for my children.

  

  Randy Pausch
  • Up
  • Children
  • Day

• You teach your daughters the diameters of the planets and wonder when you are done that they do not delight in your company.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Done
  • Wonder
  • Company

• The gravest risks from al Qaeda combine its affinity for big targets and its announced desire for weapons of mass destruction.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Desire
  • Destruction
  • Risks

• What would be the nicest thing I could say about Newt Gingrich? He may be one of the great supporters of the humanities, because you have people who don't want to study the social sciences, because it's not profitable, and now Newt, as the highest-paid historian in American history, may be an encouragement to people to study history.

  

  Barney Frank
  • People
  • Great
  • May

• Whether it goes to series or stands by itself, I'm proud of what we did with it, not only from the standpoint of what it could have been, but for itself.

  

  Yancy Butler
  • Proud
  • Only
  • Did

• American policies toward Asians reached a nadir in 1924, with the implementation of a law that sought 'to preserve the idea of American homogeneity' and denied admission to the country to most non-whites. Immigration from Asia was banned completely, with the establishment of an 'Asiatic Barred Zone.'

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • Country
  • American
  • Law

• The moral is that a career can be gone in an instant. And all you have in this world are the people you love.

  

  Ice Cube
  • People
  • World
  • Love

• When I was living in Paris in the '80s, I used to go out with an American model who couldn't speak French. But suddenly everyone could speak English because he was so cute.

  

  Edmund White
  • American
  • English
  • Model

• Though everything else may appear shallow and repulsive, even the smallest task in music is so absorbing, and carries us so far away from town, country, earth, and all worldly things, that it is truly a blessed gift of God.

  

  Felix Mendelssohn
  • Music
  • God
  • Country

• I've always made weird sounds with my mouth. I've always been fascinated by the sound design, what you can do with your mouth. I was the kid dancing around in third grade on the basketball court. While everyone would be playing sports, I would be jumping around.

  

  Charlie Puth
  • Sports
  • Design
  • Weird

• I have moments of weakness, but mostly I brush the criticism off... Who cares if I'm not a size zero? I don't want to be. I love my body; I'm healthy, I work out.

  

  Khloe Kardashian
  • Work
  • Moments
  • Criticism

• What everyone is always afraid of is the unknown, or the unfamiliar. You got to have a look for a character that is mysterious and menacing, and doesn't quite look like what we've seen before.

  

  Scott Derrickson
  • Character
  • Looks
  • Mysterious

• I've always endeavored to make movies with my friends.

  

  David Lowery Camper Van Beethoven
  • Friends

• The beauty of performance for me is finding details with which to betray character.

  

  Jefferson Mays
  • Character