Top 1089 Roy Jones Quotes & Sayings - Page 6
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Last updated on April 21, 2025.
I imagine there's a market for total depression. I grew up on George Jones and that really dark stuff.
We were terrified that Jones would settle. It was contrary to our purpose of bringing down the president.
I confess that Roy was a little bit dictatorial in his editing and he ruined quite a number of my pictures, which he stopped doing later. He used to punch a hole through a negative. Some of them were incredibly valuable. He didn't understand at the time.
The squiggly rubber Davy Jones face in 'Pirates' with the tentacles, barnacles and goobers - that's modeled on me.
I try to look at people like Adele and Norah Jones, who are very successful but don't have to deal with scandals.
Larry Jones with Feed the Children and I are partnering in New York and going into Rikers Island.
George Jones, Johnny Paycheck all them dudes they're respected and they were twice as crazy as I'll ever be.
The first song that made me interested in music was 'Oh, Pretty Woman' by Roy Orbison. It was the guitar intro, that riff, that I really liked and made me listen in a different way.
Now, let's see how you fare against the Flying Dutchman and her vile captain, Davy Jones!
I'm a geek! I'm a fan girl; I'm very proud of that. Get me near Orlando Jones, it will not be pretty.
If anything could have pulled me out of retirement it would have been an Indiana Jones film.
Ram Mohan Roy would have been a greater reformer and Lokmanya Tilak a greater scholar if they had not to start with the handicap of having to think in English and transmit their thoughts chiefly in English.
My dad used to listen to Jimi Hendrix and Eric Clapton, and my mom liked Michael Bolton and Roy Orbison. She was pretty big into country music, too. So there was a wealth of music being played in the house, and I kind of took it all in.
Without a doubt Jon Jones is one of the greatest fighters in history, and, of course, we do see errors that we'll try to exploit.
It's where I keep all my things. Get a lot of compliments on this. Plus it's not a purse, it's called a satchel. Indiana Jones wears one.
Roy Hill had to achieve more than 4,000 approvals, permits, and licences and more again for construction. The delays and costs of this were not only humungous and waste of human resources but did nothing to assist productivity.
When I was in Congress, I worked with Joe Kennedy to rename the Justice Department for Bobby, and when I retired, Teddy Kennedy sent me this Roy Lichtenstein print of his brother, inscribed: 'Bobby would have been proud of you.'
Tom Jones told me only a few singers have got the pipes, and he's right. He has. Sinatra did. I have.
I'm looking forward to talking to Bill Parcells, too, and to seeing how that marriage with Jerry Jones goes.
We used to do four or five films at a time and were not able to experiment with too many things. But, the heart was in the right place and everybody worked passionately. We had wonderful directors like Bimal Roy, Hrishikesh Mukherjee, Raj Kapoor.
I am the third Jenkin Jones to preach that liberal interpretation of Christianity generally known as Unitarianism.
I'm a lover of old traditional country - George Jones, Merle Haggard, Tammy Wynette, Marty Roberts.
The scariest thing about 'Roy' was that it was sync sound. So, I had to worry about my diction all the more along with my emotions, acting, and my dialogues. That was very challenging because it pushed me to work on my Hindi, and in a good way.
Jessica Jones is such a great part, and I do serious work on it. I feel really creatively fulfilled.
You are innocent until proven guilty. And if folks have come forward, whether it is judge Roy Moore or whether it is anyone else, and they have evidence to convict someone of a crime, then they should go through the legal process and do so.
UFC 151 will be remembered as the event Jon Jones and Greg Jackson murdered.
The name 'Chuck Jones', according to my uncle, limited my choice of profession to second baseman or cartoonist.
They say the Premier League is best league in the world. Or Roy Keane says we are brainwashed into believing it. He might be right. But I can definitely say it's the most entertaining league.
In the '70s, '80s and '90s, noted actors like Iftekhar used to get mainly police officer roles, Bindu ji would do a negative role, and Nirupama Roy was the on-screen mother. All this had its own charm. There was a fixed casting.
Jon Jones is a dynamic fighter, he's very exciting, he's been going out there and beating people convincingly.
If anything could have pulled me out of retirement, it would have been an Indiana Jones film.
People ask me who is my favorite country artist. I say, you mean besides George Jones.
When I was nine, I was singing western swing: Roy Rogers and Patsy Cline. It got me noticed because no one my age was doing it, but it made me feel inferior because none of my friends could relate to it.
I wasn't Britney Spears or Jessica Simpson. I wasn't Tori Amos or Norah Jones. Nobody knew what to do with me.
I feel like I can beat Jon Jones. I see some things in his game that I can capitalize on.
The opportunity to carry water every night to James Earl Jones on stage is a dream come true.
The movie where me and Leslie Jones play siblings will manifest at some point in time.
You put this face on television, week in, week out, they'd stop me and they'd say, 'Hey, Roy, how are you doing?' They'd know who I was, what I was, what I looked like, and what I did - all from seeing and hearing it at the same time on television.
It was really nice working with Richard Gere, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Queen Latifah, Renee Zellweger.
I confess that Roy [Stryker] was a little bit dictatorial in his editing and he ruined quite a number of my pictures, which he stopped doing later. He used to punch a hole through a negative. Some of them were incredibly valuable. He didn't understand at the time.
I got a picture of me taken next to George Jones. I rarely ask for that, but he's someone I couldn't pass up.
Catherine Zeta-Jones started out like me. Her big break in Hollywood was in 'Zorro.'
Jon Jones is awesome and won his first world title at 23 and 8 months. I believe I can do it before then.
'The Avengers' is exciting on the level 'The Matrix' or 'Indiana Jones' was when I was kid. I think it will be timeless.
I did what Jon 'Bones' Jones couldn't do, and that was finish Bader in a minute and fifty-six seconds.
Roy received my comments with a forced smile. "Hardy, didn't I warn you not to date a woman who reads?" Hardy seemed amused by my outspokenness. "Keeps the arguing to a minimum," he replied. "No point in trying when I know she's going to win.
Honestly, I'm not a big movie buff in general. The only movies I own is probably the 'Indiana Jones' trilogy.
I grew up listening to my mother's collection of Hank Williams, George Jones and Marty Robbins records.
Jon Jones is amazing; he's so confident. He uses his elbows very well, and I think he's a great talent.
It's sad when you see most of your friends in the business gone, like Tommy Cooper, Frankie Howard, Eric Morecambe, Roy Castle, Les Dawson. They were very dear to me. You no longer have the chance to bump into them at a celebrity do.
My trainer, Marty Jones, was trained by Billy Robinson, so was Johnny Saint and a lot of great British wrestlers.
Rahul Roy is delusional. He wants 'Aashiqui' to end with him. When it didn't end with me, how can it end with him?
All Bridget Jones did was give us a word for it - singleton - which was the worst possible thing.
Well, Tommy Lee Jones is a little bit more intimidating. He's definitely a cowboy. He's from Texas.
It's exciting to originate Jessica Jones. There's obviously more freedom in that versus playing a well known character.
Once I saw Tamala Jones in person, I was like, 'I gotta put my lips on her!'
In my vocal, I think you can hear something of my earlier times when I'd sing in subway halls for the echo and perform doo-wop on street corners. But I had a lot of influences, too - singers like Sam Cooke, Brook Benton and Roy Hamilton.
Greg Jones, you don't get any better than that when it comes to wrestling. I actually looked up to him when I was in college.
But once you strip that down, you realize it's all about a voice, like a Norah Jones - that's inspiring to me.
I ended up being friends with all my heroes. Lefty Frizzell, George Jones, Johnny Cash - it was incredible.
