Evan Jones Quotes
But also movies seem to like me more than television, so I don't get hired a lot for TV for whatever reason.
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Every audition I get, I agonise over and I put everything I can into it.
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Somebody once told me I shouldn't try to change Hollywood. That isn't my point at all. I don't want Hollywood to change me.
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What in heaven's name is strange about a grandmother dancing nude? I'll bet lots of grandmothers do it.
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The survival of artistic modes in which we recognize ourselves, identify ourselves and place ourselves will survive as long as humanity survives.
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I would wish for any one of my colleagues to have the experience of working with Martin Scorsese once in their lifetime.
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I have my faults, but changing my tune is not one of them.
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The movie business is a big gamble.
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It's hard enough to write a good drama, it's much harder to write a good comedy, and it's hardest of all to write a drama with comedy. Which is what life is.
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You have injuries that bother you when you're not playing. When that horn blows, you don't feel it.
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There's no one on this earth taken less seriously in a leadership context than a young woman - everything is against you.
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The beautiful thing about hip-hop is it's like an audio collage. You can take any form of music and do it in a hip-hop way and it'll be a hip-hop song. That's the only music you can do that with.
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I want to write a film. I need to think of the right idea and focus on that; I love writing.
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Essentially, you have to be aware of a crisis happening: 'Can the company go on if I get hit by a bus?' That's, I think, how you build a great company and something that can scale.
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I can't think of any more powerful moment than when you stand on a stage.
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If you recognize a face while surfing through 200 channels, you will stop and listen. Celebrities give a positive aura and people like them. Their message appeals to people.
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If I think back on the books to which I have devoted my entire life, I am most surprised by those moments when I have felt as if the sentences, dreams, and pages that have made me so ecstatically happy have not come from my own imagination - that another power has found them and generously presented them to me.
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Let's not give the electoral process so much importance. We have to be cynical about it. Let's give importance to the real democracy that's constructed on a day-to-day basis. That's my hopeful perspective on it.
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Ninety percent of my ideas come to me either when I'm reading or watching a show.
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To the European, it is a characteristic of the American culture that, again and again, one is commanded and ordered to 'be happy.' But happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue. One must have a reason to 'be happy.'
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To look good in the water you have to pick the right swimsuit. I own close to 500.
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One reason why I don't drink is because I wish to know when I am having a good time.
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Lifetime is television for women. Yet for some reason, there's always a woman getting beaten on that channel. "In a Lifetime original, Meredith Baxter-Berney gets beaten with a rod. In a Lifetime original, Rod."
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But also movies seem to like me more than television, so I don't get hired a lot for TV for whatever reason.
