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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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 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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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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I'm not really massively into going out. I'm much more of a hibernator. It's nice to have people come to your house or go to someone's house, I think.
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I'm building a career as big as humanly possible so I can be in a 'Star Wars' project. My life goal is to have a character in the 'Star Wars' universe, film or other media. I just want to go to my grave knowing I played some character or some character based on my likeness was part of that world.
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The people that I admire have a wonderful balance of self-belief and humility.
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My dad and I used to watch 'Ninja Warrior' all the time back when it was in Japan. I would always say, 'I could do that,' kind of joking, but obviously kind of serious.
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I don't know whether it is important to study science at a young age, though current thinking emphasises the need.
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I got to work with one of my heroes, Johnny Depp, and to see how he goes about business, which was really inspiring for me at this stage in my career.
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One of my favorite movies of all time is 'It's A Wonderful Life', which is a pretty interesting choice for a seasonal Christmas favorite, because it's about a guy who wants to commit suicide and is presented with reasons not to.
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If you paint a man leaning over your own back must ache
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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.
