Felicity Jones quote: "I think that my parents' divorce gave me a very strong sense of self-reliance and independence. I realised that I needed to make sure I could support myself because you don't know what's going to happen in the future."

I would be writing an essay that was due in the next day until about 1 A.M., and then I would be up ...
FELICITY JONES

I think we're very lucky that there is a tradition of British actors working in America and bein...
FELICITY JONES

If it's something quite low-key then I'll often do my own makeup. But for something like a p...
FELICITY JONES

I'm attracted to playing people who aren't necessarily straightforward.
FELICITY JONES

The more you work, the more people can see that you're something different from what's come ...
FELICITY JONES

I think you're attracted to things that are different from yourself in a character because it...
FELICITY JONES

My grandmother has dementia, and my mother is looking after her as her primary caregiver. Seeing the...
FELICITY JONES

I love French films, and I copy things I see in them. I read magazines and also look at Tumblr. I lo...
FELICITY JONES

I actually always had short hair as a kid, and it's really liberating. I recommend it. It's ...
FELICITY JONES

My most treasured item is the brown leather bag that my mum bought me from a little Italian shop for...
FELICITY JONES

A lot of my time is spent watching films and reading scripts. And it can be all-consuming. And it...
FELICITY JONES

But for everyone, I think, there is always a pressure to conform, and I guess as you get older you r...
FELICITY JONES

It can be very intense being an actor; it can be quite a small world. Then you speak to your friend ...
FELICITY JONES

I'm interested in all forms of performance, yet I think it's difficult to be as equally tale...
FELICITY JONES

I've never done this level of physical preparation for something. Particularly for 'Rogue On...
FELICITY JONES

I would describe my look as 'ladylike rock chick.'
FELICITY JONES

I'm very independent, creatively, always trying to push myself - and I think that comes from my ...
FELICITY JONES

Day to day, I always wear eyeliner on my top lid and mascara. I like to do my own makeup, it depends...
FELICITY JONES

Interviewing someone is very similar to preparing a character, isn't it? You're just asking ...
FELICITY JONES

It was only after university that I said to myself that I had to take the risk and have a serious go...
FELICITY JONES

It's funny how seeing a love story never gets boring, because it's the dream, isn't it? ...
FELICITY JONES

I make all my decisions by listening to my instinct and then keeping my fingers crossed it will lead...
FELICITY JONES

You have to be brave and not always play likeable people. It's difficult, because there's a ...
FELICITY JONES

There's so much of a desire in the entertainment industry for newness, a desire to build somebod...
FELICITY JONES

It's nice to have some continuity you can come back to. I feel that in coming home, coming back ...
FELICITY JONES

I love spending time researching a character and reading about them.
FELICITY JONES

I love 'Annie Hall'; I will always come back to that film again and again. Diane Keaton has ...
FELICITY JONES

I don't like when I look too cluttered.
FELICITY JONES

I always think Michelle Williams is excellent in her work. And I do love Sofia Coppola. She always c...
FELICITY JONES

A fashion show is like a 10-minute play, but there's all this anticipation; Everyone arriving, f...
FELICITY JONES

I've heard directing talked about as being a benign dictatorship, and I think that's probabl...
FELICITY JONES

I think, as an actor, you're always traveling. There's a sense of dislocation sometimes from...
FELICITY JONES

I like to jump into different worlds. I'm attracted to the emotional rollercoaster of acting. No...
FELICITY JONES

It is disheartening when you read an interview with an actress, and it starts by describing what she...
FELICITY JONES

It can be frustrating when you're put in a category with others. Women do get lumped together in...
FELICITY JONES

You just have to take these opportunities when they come along. They're not that frequent; you&#...
FELICITY JONES

If the part isn't always there on the page, I've had good relationships with writers where t...
FELICITY JONES

I'm more of a freestyle dancer. I like to do my own thing.
FELICITY JONES

I'd studied English literature at university, but I was also far more enamored with Virginia Woo...
FELICITY JONES

The key is working with great directors. A film is so many different people and all their talents, b...
FELICITY JONES

I always had a very strong sense of independence. I really liked being able to buy my Alanis Morisse...
FELICITY JONES

I am quite fortunate, because I can still be quite incognito. If you go out looking for attention, t...
FELICITY JONES

She was obsessed with French and Swedish cinema. I also remember our mother showing us 'Gone Wit...
FELICITY JONES

I love going swimming. I spent a lot of time in North London in summer going to Hampstead Heath and ...
FELICITY JONES

Without sounding too pretentious, I feel my job is almost like becoming a monk or a nun - it's a...
FELICITY JONES

When you're a young actor, there's this pressure to rush. But I hope to be doing this into m...
FELICITY JONES

You have to have a bag of Yorkshire Tea bags. It is the best tea that England has to offer, and that...
FELICITY JONES

London is my home. I miss my family so much; it's hard being away. And I miss salt and vinegar c...
FELICITY JONES

When you're a skateboarder or a snowboarder, it affects the way you talk, the way you move, the ...
FELICITY JONES

I'd love to do more comedy. It'd just be nice to go into work and not be crying every day. S...
FELICITY JONES

I'm a horrible perfectionist and very highly strung. That's why I do yoga: to unwind.
FELICITY JONES

For everyone, 'Star Wars' has been a part of their lives in some capacity. I remember watchi...
FELICITY JONES

I have such an eclectic taste. I like listening to classical music and pop music.
FELICITY JONES

I learnt circus skills in drama group, so I can juggle.
FELICITY JONES

I think there is an enormous appetite for great roles for women.
FELICITY JONES

I think it's absolutely about time that we have as many female leads as male. It's a very ex...
FELICITY JONES

I haven't done fillers or Botox for ages. There comes a point where you have to match bits of yo...
FELICITY KENDAL

When I was much younger, I sometimes felt rejected by feminists because of an image that I sold beca...
FELICITY KENDAL

The girl-next-door image is a sort of joke; for years, I couldn't get any roles other than as so...
FELICITY KENDAL

So many roles for women demand that you make the audience fall in love with you or sympathise with y...
FELICITY KENDAL

I'm sure people in the business have said: She's too old for that part. I don't hear abo...
FELICITY KENDAL

I do still get the odd fan letter about The Good Life, clearly written by somebody aged 18, who says...
FELICITY KENDAL

Every woman feels she is too old and has missed the boat.
FELICITY KENDAL

As we have more women in power, so the plays and the TV dramas are reflecting what's happening.
FELICITY KENDAL

I can be very difficult if people are not professional, or lazy - or the opposite, which is take the...
FELICITY KENDAL

It's difficult to say what attracts one person to another. It's always a combination, isn...
FELICITY KENDAL

After making my stage debut aged nine as Macduff's small son in 'Macbeth,' I had played ...
FELICITY KENDAL

It was in India that I started my acting career, courtesy of my parents, long before I set foot on s...
FELICITY KENDAL

I am used to looking good. In a way, if I thought I looked like the back end of a bus, I probably wo...
FELICITY KENDAL

We take ourselves so seriously moment by moment, but India shows you a sense of eternity. You're...
FELICITY KENDAL

I did try fillers once. Don't ever have fillers because when your cheekbones are high, it's ...
FELICITY KENDAL

The gym is where I get my chill-out time. I try to go six days a week, but when I'm working, tha...
FELICITY KENDAL

I think very few people do find a relationship where, every moment of every day, everything they do ...
FELICITY KENDAL

I hope to start enjoying flirting again when I'm 70, like my mother did.
FELICITY KENDAL

I love gentle, gorgeous classical music such as Mozart.
FELICITY KENDAL

Success breeds success, and failure leads to a sort of fallow period.
FELICITY KENDAL

I don't treasure things much - just people. And pets.
FELICITY KENDAL

My parents were very volatile but very loving. My father would get jealous if my mother looked at so...
FELICITY KENDAL

I think you have to relax about aging. What else can you do?
FELICITY KENDAL

I don't think, until you've actually lost somebody you really love, that you can go through ...
FELICITY KENDAL

For me, compatibility is a sense of humour, being able to laugh together; that is very important.
FELICITY KENDAL

I can't tell you what a pleasure it is to just put my hair under a wig cap and slap on a wig tha...
FELICITY HUFFMAN

When I was little I always thought I was marked out, special, on the verge of something momentous. I...
FELICITY KENDAL

I was bulimic and anorexic for a while, just hating my body. As an actress, I was never thin enough,...
FELICITY HUFFMAN

The truth is women use contraception not only as a way to prevent unintended pregnancies, but also t...
FELICITY HUFFMAN

The only thing I remember going up onstage was my feet started sweating. I'm a runner. And my feet s...
FELICITY HUFFMAN

I would like to thank the incomparable William H. Macy for taking a chunky 22-year-old with a bad pe...
FELICITY HUFFMAN

It's thrilling,
FELICITY HUFFMAN

And I thought some lucky actress will get to do it. But not me. Someone with clout.
FELICITY HUFFMAN

It just happened, ... You can't plan for it but just build the runway and hope to God the muse rises...
FELICITY HUFFMAN

I'd call him and say, 'I don't know how to act this scene,' and he would tell me to fax it to him, ....
FELICITY HUFFMAN

It's nice not to have lines when you frown, especially on TV. I don't know why people make s...
FELICITY KENDAL

I think I've always had a 40-year-old body, and now that I'm actually there I'm like, &#...
FELICITY HUFFMAN

It's only because I feel like such a philistine spending all that time in hair and makeup that I...
FELICITY HUFFMAN

It's the role of a lifetime. I would have begged, borrowed and stole just to have a shot at an audit...
FELICITY HUFFMAN

I wouldn't trade anything for family time. To me, it is more important than everything else, and...
FELICITY KENDAL

I'm shot into the stratosphere. You can't pasteurize the Academy Award. You can't negotiate it. It i...
FELICITY HUFFMAN

I've turned into one of those actresses and I'm sorry,
FELICITY HUFFMAN

I've turned into one of those actresses.
FELICITY HUFFMAN

Thankfully, President Obama has stood firmly behind women's health care issues by supporting cov...
FELICITY HUFFMAN

Between work and the kids, I never see anyone anymore. I mean, when I first met with ABC last spring...
FELICITY HUFFMAN

By definition, a hearing is an inquiry into many sides of an issue with testimony from various point...
FELICITY HUFFMAN

Give. Me. Your tie.
FELICITY HUFFMAN

There is one sure way of telling when politicians aren't telling the truth - their lips move.
FELICITY KENDALL

I think the first year was all a surprise and a shock for us. This year, having weathered that, we a...
FELICITY HUFFMAN

The hormones don't change your voice, so you can look like Kate Moss but sound like James Earl Jones...
FELICITY HUFFMAN

As you grow up and get educated in the business, you go from, 'I want to do movies' to 'I want to wo...
FELICITY HUFFMAN

A win for one is a win for all -- and I'm not just saying that because Dumas did.
FELICITY HUFFMAN

Despite some of the house sales data it looks as if the market is going to look for a pretty robust ...
FELICITY ALGATE

The market seemed very sensitive to house sales data in recent weeks and this suggests to us that th...
FELICITY ALGATE

I think in the acting world you either manage that transition to older roles, or you stick with what...
FELICITY KENDAL

I'm lucky in that I don't like sweet things at all. My father loved cakes to such a degree t...
FELICITY KENDAL

That gave me the shivers................. Music=Life
FELICITY "CHEEZ' CALDWELL

Life sucks then you get a boyfriend then it sucks even more then you break up it sucks less then you...
FELICITY "CHEEZ' CALDWELL

You think soccer is a dumb sport to watch? That it has no purpose? Well your stupid obviously you do...
FELICITY "CHEEZ' CALDWELL

A refusal on the part of psychiatrists and therapists to validate the horrors of their patients' tor...
FELICITY DE ZULUETA

Few rappers realize the genre sprang from West African griots through Delta slave songs to jazz poet...
QUINCY JONES

It's great to see that celebrities can be just like us - that they too have their highs and lows...
SHIRLEY JONES

I only know from my own personal experience, and I personally feel that there's a cyclical natur...
JEFFREY JONES

I miss all of my old friends who have passed away. Sometimes you just don't understand why they ...
GEORGE JONES

I am always urging my students to honor their writing practice, to set up a schedule.
TAYARI JONES

Adolescence is a modern construct and very American in so many ways.
TAYARI JONES

Secret families are really the bedrock issue of Western literature.
TAYARI JONES

My first novel, 'Leaving Atlanta,' took at look at my hometown in the late 1970s, when the c...
TAYARI JONES

I like straightforward names for my characters. When I get too symbolic with names or places, I star...
TAYARI JONES

I do have a sister - I have two sisters.
TAYARI JONES

When I am writing a story it feels as real as the life I am experiencing off the page. It's an e...
TAYARI JONES

I was kind of an invisible girl when I was young.
TAYARI JONES

I take mentoring very seriously and as a result I hardly get any work done during the school year.
TAYARI JONES

I take mentoring very seriously and I am on the board of an organization called Girls Write Now, whe...
TAYARI JONES

When it comes to memoir, we want to catch the author in a lie. When we read fiction, we want to catc...
TAYARI JONES

I think the NAACP isn't recognized enough for all of the work it does, especially in the field o...
TAYARI JONES

I made the best business decision at 14 when I decided to get into acting. The worst was owning 2 ho...
TAMALA JONES

I love Yves Saint Laurent. I love Chanel. And Versace! Such beautiful gowns!
TAMALA JONES

I'm afraid that I won't do a good job when I go into an audition.
TAMALA JONES

The expectations were low for 'Castle;' people thought we'd be one season and done.
TAMALA JONES

I definitely love 'Camelot.' It's my favorite show. I'm a big 'True Blood' f...
TAMALA JONES

I'm the only girl out of three children. I have two younger brothers. I've grown up around b...
TAMALA JONES

People love my collard greens. They love my macaroni and cheese. They love the gumbo. They love my J...
TAMALA JONES

I hid the fact that I had an aneurysm for a very long time. I was embarrassed, and I just felt like ...
TAMALA JONES

I can go into a restaurant; I might have to go a few times, taste something, love it and figure out ...
TAMALA JONES

I've always been in love with music, but I've never thought to sing.
TAMALA JONES

I love comedy because I'm naturally a very silly person.
TAMALA JONES

For me, to do a reality show is like sending myself to actor's graveyard. I feel like I should w...
TAMALA JONES

I'm a little goofy sometimes; I can get a little wacky.
TAMALA JONES

I read a whole bunch of bits and pieces over the years, obviously from the fan magazines and the res...
DAVY JONES

You've never seen a Columbine done by a black child. Never. They always say, 'We can't b...
VAN JONES

Let me say what I actually believe. I believe that 9/11 was a conspiracy, by Al Qaeda, and Osama Bin...
VAN JONES

I cannot in good conscience ask my colleagues to expend precious time and energy defending or explai...
VAN JONES

I was always one of those fortunate people who never wanted to be anything other than a singer and a...
JACK JONES

I find great beauty in songs with a creative interpretation, but most people generally don't get...
JACK JONES

Because I'm shy and a bit quiet, I think people assume I'm an elegant person.
JACK JONES

I particularly like Hershey's chocolate, the kind which has almonds in it.
JACK JONES

When people say to me, 'What do you think of rap music?', my answer is, 'There's no ...
JACK JONES

I never thought I was going to be a singer. That was an accident.
GRACE JONES

I have a weakness for watches. I have to stop myself buying more.
TOM JONES

Fog and smog should not be confused and are easily separated by color.
CHUCK JONES

I always have a positive reaction to Times Square - you've got so many people passing through he...
DHANI JONES

I just go with the flow, I follow the yellow brick road. I don't know where it's going to le...
GRACE JONES

I like dressing like a guy. I love it. When I was modeling I used to do pictures where I would dress...
GRACE JONES

I want to see as many black professionals as possible.
ORLANDO JONES

Someone I met years ago explained to me the difference between a personality and an actor, a persona...
ORLANDO JONES

Belly was not a bad movie. It was visually very interesting.
ORLANDO JONES

I walked in thinking, 'I have ten movies under my belt and now they want me to go back to making...
ORLANDO JONES

That was one of the things that interested me about the character. He doesn't want to be a hero,...
ORLANDO JONES

Most of my friends between 21 and 31 are at different stages of figuring out what the hell they are ...
ORLANDO JONES

You give the guy an Image Award three years in a row and then turn on him like that? If that's t...
ORLANDO JONES

You cannot get an A if you're afraid of getting an F.
QUINCY JONES

I got in the school band and the school choir. It all hit me like a ton of bricks, everything just c...
QUINCY JONES

I only hope that one day, America will recognize what the rest of the world already has known, that ...
QUINCY JONES

It's amazing how much trouble you can get in when you don't have anything else to do.
QUINCY JONES

I have all the tools and gadgets. I tell my son, who's a producer, 'You never work for the m...
QUINCY JONES

If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture.
QUINCY JONES

I'm Pisces with Leo rising. The Pisces part is the dreamer. The Leo says, 'Let's execute...
QUINCY JONES

I didn't understand key signatures or anything, you know. I'd say silly things at the top of...
QUINCY JONES

Seattle is like a global gumbo, a melting pot with all kinds of people - the rich, the poor, white p...
QUINCY JONES

We were in the heart of the ghetto in Chicago during the Depression, and every block - it was probab...
QUINCY JONES

I lost my mother when I was 7 and they put her in a mental hospital. My brother and I watched her be...
QUINCY JONES

Every day, my daddy told me the same thing. 'Once a task is just begun, never leave it till it&#...
QUINCY JONES

A great song can make a terrible singer sound good, but a good singer - you put a great song on top ...
QUINCY JONES

Music in movies is all about dissonance and consonance, tension and release.
QUINCY JONES

I don't ever want to grow up. That's boring.
QUINCY JONES

I've never been bored in my life, man. I've never been bored or lonely. Are you kidding? No ...
QUINCY JONES

I guess hip-hop has been closer to the pulse of the streets than any music we've had in a long t...
QUINCY JONES

You make your mistakes to learn how to get to the good stuff.
QUINCY JONES

I was raised in Chicago and I guess that was one of the special breeding grounds for gangsters of al...
QUINCY JONES

I tell my kids and I tell proteges, always have humility when you create and grace when you succeed,...
QUINCY JONES

Playing the game, and unfortunately, playing the gangster game is very profitable.
QUINCY JONES

Hate speech and freedom of speech are two different things.
LESLIE JONES

In 'Hell Ride,' I play a biker - it's about the bikers. It's with Dennis Hopper and ...
VINNIE JONES

It was very painful combing my hair. My grand-uncle was a Pentecostal bishop, and he was very strict...
GRACE JONES

I like men. I like the sound of their voices, the way they think. They're more sensitive than wo...
CAROLYN JONES

I have to think as Bugs Bunny, not of Bugs Bunny.
CHUCK JONES

The racing bug is never going to go away. It's like the Mafia.
DAVY JONES

You wouldn't want to see the size of the check that I would write if it would for sure get the D...
JERRY JONES

The press will naturally come and go as it has done with all artists, from David Bowie to Neil Young...
KELLY JONES

When you wear a bow tie, doors open for you. Your posture is a little more erect; your shoulders are...
DHANI JONES

The good, old-fashioned family can help. Students learn by example, and if their parents, aunts, unc...
AL JONES

That's a worry, because we have seen the intensity of students playing video games, watching TV more...
AL JONES

It's the personal, intimate nature of books. It's hard to curl up with a computer.
AL JONES

I think that my parents' divorce gave me a very strong sense of self-reliance and independence. I realised that I needed to make sure I could support myself because you don't know what's going to happen in the future.

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I think that my parents' divorce gave me a very strong sense of self-reliance and independence. I realised that I needed to make sure I could support myself because you don't know what's going to happen in the future.

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