Quotes by Doug Jones - Page 1

I never sought to play monsters in films.
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Monsters
Sought
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I'm not usually the guy who has people hiding in his bushes and saying, 'Will you love me forever and ever?'
Doug Jones /
Forever
Hiding
Love Me People
Love Me
Bushes
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My very favorite costumed character I've played would be Abe Sapien from the 'Hell Boy' movies. I love this guy.
Doug Jones /
Abe
Love Movies Character
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My favorite thing to pass the time in the makeup chair is YouTube videos of talking cats. I don't know why, but they make me laugh.
Doug Jones /
Make Me Laugh
Youtube
Cats
Chair
Favorite Thing
Pass
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The gaming world is a complete mystery to me! Well, I did play Pac Man and Frogger using big machines at an arcade back in the '80s.
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Gaming
Machines
Man World Me
Arcade
Complete
Complete Mystery
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Whether it's t-shirt and jeans or full monster suit, I'm still an actor underneath it all, and a good director is going to know that.
Doug Jones /
Jeans
Director
Good Director
Monster
Suit
Underneath
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I've never hidden my Christianity in Hollywood, and I've been handled respectfully because I handle the issue and other people respectfully.
Doug Jones /
Christianity
Handle
Hidden
Respectfully
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Actors are divas, and we all make too much noise and complain too much, so if you don't do that, it makes you rather exceptional, apparently.
Doug Jones /
Noise
Apparently
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I'm surprised how many commercials and sitcoms and movies have a need for, 'We just need something to come by the camera that's really weird.' They call Doug Jones.
Doug Jones /
Commercials
Sitcoms
Surprised
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What sweetens the deal for me is that I get to develop an alien species from the ground up. I'm playing Saru, a Kelpian, and this race has never been seen before in any 'Star Trek' series.
Doug Jones /
Species
Alien
Star Trek
Trek
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I am kind of a freak of nature who has loose joints, and I was able to put my legs behind my head, and it looked weird to people when I was a kid, so I kept doing it. It's a great party gag.
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Freak
Joints
Legs
Weird
Gag
Looked
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When I came out to Hollywood in 1985, I thought that I would be sitcom star. I'm a tall, skinny, goofy guy. I thought that I would make a great funny neighbor, or wacky office mate, in a sitcom.
Doug Jones /
Funny
Goofy
Guy
Hollywood
Neighbor
Office
Sitcom
Skinny
Tall
Wacky
Came
Star
Mate
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That's what I love about geeks, that they can call themselves a geek and be proud of it. I love that. I even have a necklace with the word 'geek' spelled out in rhinestones, and I'm very proud, myself.
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Geek
Proud
Geeks
Necklace
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My wife and I have never been able to have kids of our own. Physically, it's impossible. The doctor checked. So we tend to unofficially adopt lots of twenty-somethings. I have a real soft spot in my heart for youth.
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Youth
Adopt
Doctor
Checked
Spot
Soft Spot
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I'm in an age bracket now where I can play the father of an adult daughter whose going through her life issues, and she'll come to me for advice while I'm wearing my Christmas sweater and swirling a cup of hot cocoa.
Doug Jones /
Christmas
Life Age Me
Bracket
Cup
Sweater
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I have such freedom when I'm living through a mask, and by contrast, can feel very exposed when a camera is capturing my real face. Kind of like the difference between walking out your front door in a sweater and jeans or in a Speedo.
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Contrast
Exposed
Jeans
Mask
Real
Walking
Living
Face
Between
Camera
Capturing
Difference
Door
Front
Sweater
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That's kind of how my jobs have happened over the years. It's been referrals throughout the creature effects/make-up world. The drawings happen, and they see that it's a tall, skinny thing, and they go, 'Let's get Doug Jones for that.'
Doug Jones /
Skinny
Creature
Drawings
Throughout
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I learned mime back when I was in college, at Ball State University, Indiana. That woke up my body from the neck down and made me realize that acting and communication - portraying a story, event, or emotion - is a full-body experience.
Doug Jones /
Communication
Acting
Body
College
Emotion
Indiana
Mime
Portraying
University
Ball
Neck
Event
Learned
Realize
State University
Woke
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I can put my legs behind my head, but that's pretty much it. An early agent said to me, 'If you can put your legs behind your head, let's say you're a contortionist!' So I got sent out for everything twisty and bendy. It's a good conversation starter.
Doug Jones /
Conversation
Good Conversation
Legs
Good Your Me
Agent
Sent
Starter
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I'm a very happy-go-lucky lover of all mankind as a person in real life. So when I play a darker character, I have to tap into something that isn't my natural way, and what I found was that I think human beings have the potential for all of these emotions.
Doug Jones /
Happy Go Lucky
Human Beings
Mankind
Real Life
Life Character Way
Beings
Lover
Tap
Darker
Natural Way
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The question always arose from both fans and friends was, 'Have you ever done 'Star Trek,' and if not, would you want to?' And the answer was always, 'No, I haven't, and yes, I would love to!' So now, at the age of 57, I can finally say, 'I'm in the new Star Trek!' And I'm so excited about it!
Doug Jones /
Star Trek
Trek
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I really connect with every character that I've played, just because I kinda have to; as an actor, you want to take them in and get to know them and like them; because they're evil, you kinda have to like them so that you can understand them and play them and play them with some kind of empathy.
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Connect
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When you're on camera, even though you try to lose yourself in the character, you are aware that there is a camera there capturing every moment of it visually. With doing a voiceover job, you are worried about the sound of it, and you have to make all those visual colors come out with your sound.
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Worried
Visual
Capturing
Colors
Voiceover
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People who know your work and know your personality, they know your strengths and weaknesses. A director like Guillermo del Toro, he knows more about me than I do. I trust him when he tells me what part I'm going to be playing in something, because he's envisioned that that can only be done by me. He knows it.
Doug Jones /
Envisioned
Strengths
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To me I don't deal with stress well at all, and it is stressful enough for me to deal with my own one character. So if I had to deal with all the characters and the special effects, and the editing and make the writing tweaks and do everything the director does, that would drive me to an early grave, and I just can't do it.
Doug Jones /
Editing
Special Effects
Stress
Grave
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