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Jeffrey Jones

"This outfit called Los Angeles Theatre Works does readings of plays."

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"This outfit called Los Angeles Theatre Works does readings of plays."

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A.E. Samaan

"The play was a great success but the audience was a disaster."

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A.E. Samaan

"I come from a TV background, so for me this more like doing a freeing theatre piece because we'd go into a room and do the scene, instead of doing it as a wide shot, medium shot, and close up with only the odd line of dialogue."

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A.E. Samaan

"I'm very resistant to most forms of theater."

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A.E. Samaan

"In the theatre the audience wants to be surprised - but by things that they expect."

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A.E. Samaan

"I think any classical training in the theatre is of enormous value."

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A.E. Samaan

"Whether it was working on theatre sets or stage lighting, I didn't realize most all of the skills I was exposed to were going to come in handy later on when I became a designer."

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A.E. Samaan

"I don't like sitting around in my dressing room very much. It feels a lot like theater."

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A.E. Samaan

"With my background, I came out of the theater."

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A.E. Samaan

"I grew up in Washington, D.C. But also loving the theater."

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A.E. Samaan

"I started out doing theater and a soap in New York and that's... sort of what I got stuck in. I was blessed enough to have long runs, and it's sort of hard sometimes then to get out."

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Jeffrey Jones
"My job is to help the functioning of the story, not to draw attention to myself, but to make my characters function within the story, to work for the benefit of the story, to make the whole thing work."

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Jeffrey Jones
"I've gotten to go wonderful places, meet interesting and intelligent people, and I started of course in the theatre and continue to work in the theatre where there is some intelligence involved in it."

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Jeffrey Jones
"And from my character's point-of-view in Ravenous, he had been collected by Robert Carlyle's character, he had become infected by this ravenous, cannibalistic power, and he was making the best of it."

Power

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Jeffrey Jones
"Every actor wants to have a character that changes, that has some kind of movement, that gets from point A to point B, that doesn't just supply one note."

Character

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Jeffrey Jones
"There may be the kinds of things that you may find interesting, but then there's also the practical reality of needing to make a living and this is what you have to choose from."

Living

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Jeffrey Jones
"But it's true, it's nothing new that decisions about what movies are to be made, and how they're to be made, and who's to be hired to do what, and whether you hire somebody to do their job, or whether you hire somebody to fill a position and you tell them what to do."

Movies

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

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Jeffrey Jones
"My son tried to work in films and he ultimately gave it up, he finally couldn't make a living, he couldn't support himself. He worked all the time and he didn't make enough money to have a house, have an apartment."

Money

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Jeffrey Jones
"Well, I think that there is a connection between being a lawyer and a doctor and an actor. They kind of, in some ways, have the same appeal, I suppose."

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Jeffrey Jones
"Ive done Hay Fever and this one was called Another Time by Ronald Harwood."

Time

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