Jeffrey Jones Quotes

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.

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• Edie Sedgwick had a cool style; she pushed the envelope for the time.

  

  Taylor Momsen
  • Time
  • She
  • Style

• In the future, it's going to move from being just a data transport to really becoming a media experience platform. The Internet will be more about media, more about collaboration, much more virtualized and much more green.

  

  Padmasree Warrior
  • Experience
  • Future
  • Green

• I love being a woman and I was not one of these women who rose through professional life by wearing men's clothes or looking masculine. I loved wearing bright colors and being who I am.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • Life
  • Men
  • Women

• I eat lots of vegetables and green juices.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Green
  • Eat
  • Vegetables

• I don't want to be a bust.

  

  Malik Jackson
  • Want
  • Bust

• I can't say I'm having trouble with my husband or that I have a stubborn child.

  

  Carice van Houten
  • Husband
  • Child
  • Stubborn

• Of all Iraq's rocket scientists, none drew warier scrutiny abroad than Modher Sadeq-Saba Tamimi.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Rocket
  • Abroad
  • Scrutiny

• I've got ten pairs of trainers. That's one for every day of the week.

  

  Samantha Fox
  • Day
  • Everyday
  • Week

• I'd been touring for so long, seven years. For a year and a half I'd just been curious about what it was like not to tour. It's like if you were to lift a 100-pound barbell with your right arm for seven years, eventually you'd get really curious about what your left arm was capable of.

  

  Feist
  • Long
  • Year
  • Curious

• Our country does not believe in the concept of your God and my God. We believe that all gods are one. We have different ways of accepting Him. All ways lead to Him.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • God
  • Believe
  • Different

• My hair and my accent are sort of my main assets.

  

  Xavier Samuel
  • Hair
  • Assets
  • Accent

• I came from Yale, where you get an extracurricular degree in self-importance because you went there. When AIDS happened, I was treated like an outcast. And I don't like that feeling.

  

  Larry Kramer
  • Feeling
  • You
  • Like

• The same way you can see me sit at a table in a movie and be six different people, the mother and the uncle and all these different things, when I'm in the studio, I can do that, too. I'm not trying to be a recording artist and have a certain type of music for the radio.

  

  Eddie Murphy
  • People
  • Music
  • Different

• In Iran, people are free to express their views. Every day, some people criticize the policies of the government.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • People
  • Free
  • Day

• Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Good
  • Soul
  • Friendship

• I'm sure there are some commercial applications for Twitter, but they don't really interest me. I mean, 140 characters? I am really not interested in Ashton Kutcher's daily walks. Not for me.

  

  Barry Diller
  • Twitter
  • Commercial
  • Applications

• I'd love to have William Faulkner, Beethoven and Bach over. I want to find out what makes those guys tick!

  

  Candy Crowley
  • Love
  • Want
  • Find

• I've read probably 25 or 30 books by Balzac, all of Tolstoy - the novels and letters - and all of Dickens. I learned my craft from these guys.

  

  Twyla Tharp

• I try to treat whoever I meet as an old friend. This gives me a genuine feeling of happiness. It is the practice of compassion.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Giving
  • Feeling
  • Friend

• On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • Life
  • Worth
  • Saints

• 'Firelight' is a beautiful story about a lot of young women. My character, Caroline, is a girl who has a bad boyfriend, and he ends up getting her locked up and incarcerated.

  

  Q'orianka Kilcher
  • Up
  • Women
  • Character

• Our virtues are voluntary, and in fact we are in a sense ourselves partly the cause of our moral dispositions, and it is our having a certain character that makes us set up an end of a certain kind, it follows that our vices are voluntary also; they are voluntary in the same manner as our virtues.

  

  Aristotle
  • Character
  • Sense
  • Virtues

• 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
  • Character