Gemma Jones Quotes

United Kingdom, Actress
December 4, 1942

Jennifer Gemma Jones (born 4 December 1942) is an English character actress on both stage and screen. Her film appearances include Sense and Sensibility (1995), Bridget Jones's Diary (2001) and Woody Allen's You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger (2010). For her role in the BBC TV film Marvellous (2014), she won the 2015 BAFTA TV Award for Best Supporting Actress.

Young women are still looking for a prince on a white charger to come over the hill or for Mr. Rochester to appear. We all pretend we're right-on feminists, but underneath that, there's still the bedrock of romance.

Gemma Jones
- Women
- Prince
I think it is very natural to want to be partnered, but you never know. you read about mature love affairs in the press, and it gives you hope. You think: 'Well, it's not impossible.'

Gemma Jones
- Hope

Walking is my hobby, and I'm lucky that I live right on the edge of Hampstead Heath.

Gemma Jones
- Live
- Walking
I do enjoy filming, but I do consider myself still to be a bit of a novice, and I learn a bit every time I do a film job, and I am very admiring of film actors.

Gemma Jones
- Time
- Job
I don't colour my hair, and I look like the back end of a bus, so I get asked to play old people.

Gemma Jones
- People
- Hair
Rather nostalgically, I sometimes think I could still play Juliet. Inside, I'm still an incorrigible romantic.

Gemma Jones
- Romantic
All the Shakespeare parts are for young women, mostly.

Gemma Jones
- Women
I'm lucky because I have never been pigeonholed and the roles have kept on coming.

Gemma Jones

As you get older, your idiosyncrasies become sort of exaggerated. So you are who you have always been, only more so.

Gemma Jones
Even if your parents don't have Alzheimer's or aren't in a wheelchair, your parents get old - if you're lucky to have parents who live for a long time. It's a challenge, and it's difficult and lovely and touching and awful and ghastly and real.

Gemma Jones
- Time
- Long
- Live
My mother had Alzheimer's, and it's a desperately, desperately cruel thing to witness.

Gemma Jones
- Mother