Jo Jones Quotes

My voice is for hire. My endorsement is not for hire. I will do a voice-over, but I cannot endorse without making a different kind of commitment. My politics are very personal and subjective.

I mean, my people were very, very simple. They were peasant people, you know?

Ours is the age which is proud of machines that think and suspicious of men who try to.

Anyone in pursuit of art is responding to a desire to make visible that which is not, to offer the unknown self to others.

My grandmother had the most dramatic effect on my life because she set me in one direction, and I had to go back the other direction for my sanity, and for my ability to be a social human being.

When I was about five or seven years old my mother was placed in a mental institution and so we were with our father who worked very hard, and we had to figure a lot of things out.

Beginning in 1940,...questionable grades of (low) malignancy were classed as cancer. ...the proportion of 'cancer' cures...increased rapidly.

Yes, you are nosy. You're a dreadfully nosy, horribly bossy, appallingly clean old woman. Control yourself. You're victimizing us all.

During my first photo shoot, I was unhappy because they put so much makeup on me and straightened my hair. I've been stubborn ever since.

Wizard Howl," said Wizard Suliman. "I must apologize for trying to bite you so often. In the normal way, I wouldn't dream of setting teeth in a fellow countryman.

I have had some pretty wild nights! I think the media keeps a very close eye on what people are up to these days. I was out with George Clooney a few nights ago and we had a great time.

I've always worn jewellery but for a time it went out of fashion. Like grungy and punk bands didn't wear jewellery because it was stupid.

Howl said to Sophie, "I've been wondering all along if you would turn out to be that lovely girl I met on May Day. Why were you scared then?

If you are under control you're going too slow.

I would have rebelled against parental authority, no matter what. When I was 15, I started painting my face and making my own clothes.

I came from a very strict background, and didn't hear any Jamaican music when I was growing up.

My youngest uncle Randy and I were the first members of our entire family to ever go to college.

I'm not a rock star, I'm a soft person.

It is quite a risk to spank a wizard for getting hysterical about his hair.

I was an adopted child of my grandparents, and I don’t know how I can ever express my gratitude for that because my parents would have been a mess.

If I never meet you In this life Let me feel the lack A glance from your eyes Then my life Will be yours

It’s one of the most enjoyable experiences. To me, it’s theater. Immediate reaction, the second it’s done. I get to be in my living room with you, trolling my own show.

When you pray, you begin to feel the sense of being sent.

Memory is what you did. Life is what you're doing.

When I was a teenager, I was so dumb my mamma knocked me off the porch with a broom. You wish you had so good a mamma.

Know the difference between famous and great.

We need to invest in job training programs, especially those that include child care, transit stipends and paid apprenticeships and internships.

Prescription drugs can be even worse than illegal drugs. The only difference is the legality.

A song should have all the color and beauty of every rose.

When you start in that [model] business the rules are imposed upon you, but when you stay in the business long enough the rules could be broken.

I can't wait for the oil wells to run dry, for the last gob of black, sticky muck to come oozing out of some remote well. Then the glory of sail will return.

It's always very strange to have your life dramatized because it never happens like that. Things will be different.

A small craft in the ocean is, or should be, a benevolent dictatorship. The skipper's brain is the vessel's brain and he must give up his soul to her, regardless of his own feelings or inclinations.

When the depths are upheld by the Holy Spirit, then the reaction is Christian.

Life is supplied with a basic adequacy.

A person's age can be determined by the degree of pain he experiences when he comes in contact with a new idea.

Your powers are dead or dedicated. If they are dedicated, they are alive with God and tingle with surprising power. If they are saved up, taken care of for their own ends, they are dead.

Where sin has abounded in me, Grace now much more abounds in me. I live by that 'much more.'

We must continue to pursue the thought that we do not merely belong to the Kingdom - the Kingdom belongs to us.

God bless Ray Charles. It was such an honor to meet him and sing with him and actually just to watch him sing from just two feet away.

I think men are still attracted to what they've always found attractive, which is a woman who is feminine, soft, real, and . . . womanly.

Football is a sport of paradox. It requires reaction, not reflection. Yet you must use your mind to calculate, to anticipate - to think and not think at the same time.

I think any stereotyping is too much.

Mad Men' was really my first television role, and it never feels like TV to me. It's done at such a high level.

Human survival is something that you can't see in another person; you can see if someone has that will to survive or that will to win; you can't see that, you can only watch that evolve over time.

If I could do one thing over I'd have been nicer to my parents.

The ability to play is essential to being a creative artist.

I choose roles that are not me.

A reduced Christ is the same as a rejected Christ.

Part of the film business is, if you want an apple, you buy an apple.