S. Jones Quotes

I don't like when I look too cluttered.

The key is working with great directors. A film is so many different people and all their talents, but particularly the directors, because of the idiosyncrasies of that person.

There's such a sense of theatre in getting glammed up; it's like putting on a play or short film.

I always hope for roles that have some depth and that I can get my teeth into and that will challenge me, in some way.

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

I like to keep pushing myself and trying things out. I get easily bored, so I need a challenge.

I always wear the shoes of the character a week before going on set; the idea of just putting on a new pair of shoes on the first day of filming is just horrific.

I don't have much time for shopping so I pick things up when I can. My favorite labels are APC, Isabel Marant and Agnes B because the clothes are cut small and have a simplicity to them.

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

It can be very intense being an actor; it can be quite a small world. Then you speak to your friend who is a scientist and they have a completely different perspective.

I've never done a superhero movie. It's very nice to you as an actor in several worlds to go and to experiment.

I cry at the end of every episode of "Girls." I'm just so overwhelmed by the truthfulness with which [Lena Dunham] conveys human nature.

My mother [was in advertising and] worked incredibly hard when she was bringing us up. She was a working mother and a working single parent.

[In "The Invisible Woman"] was a different type of performance which was less driven by improv. You always want moments of freshness and newness, but there was less so than I've done before.

I'm keen to have balance, as much as possible.

The American vice would be sometimes speaking too loudly. You can always hear American people on the trains!

I've never taken a role where I don't like a person on the page.

Sometimes there are changes that need to be made.

I've been very lucky. Directors I've worked with have been very amenable to changes.

I'm not a huge jewelry fan.

Friends are an intersection. A route back to the world.

Unmediated joy was nowadays unfashionable.

After the first couple of years recording I did a lot of praying. I said, 'Lord, please give me a hit.' I want one so bad.

I wish, by the way, that I knew who separated Time from eternity; there seems only one thing to me, and I always feel that I am in eternity.

We must pay for the wine we have drunk.

I used a lot of quotes when I was young. To make me sound mature, to make me feel like I wasn't the second-class entity that I'd always thought I was

There are no ultimate ends. Only games and more games. The winner this round is the loser the next round. Only the game is eternal. And the game is always the same, if you never change the rules.

As a kid, I always thought the TV was a magic box in the corner of the room.

I remember my mum saying to me, 'You can give up the violin - when you've done Grade 8.' Which is the highest grade, and the most unfair target ever. So I did all the grades, just to annoy her.

I'm a complete worrier. As soon as my head hits the pillow I'm thinking.

Once I ran to you, now I run from you.

How can I ever miss you when you never go away?

I know how to find things.

Even if I sing like a robot, it is still an emotional robot.

I don't like people who hide things.

Some songs come from my head, some from my throat, but there will always be moments when it is an injection of the soul.

My husband used to shout at my mother, 'What is wrong with your daughter? I'm married to a man.'

To be honest, my life is not really as way-out and myth-loaded as people like to portray it.

When you become such a strong personality in music, it's hard for people to accept you as a different character.

I don't think 'pop' should mean that you had no talent.

I hate prescription drugs! They don't tell you everything that is in them.

I'm still shocked every time I see snow. The first bit of snow each year... I stay up and I watch it. And then I go out and pick it up and eat it and move around in it.

I can look at a fur and tell if it's good or not.

You can't expect your children to be perfect.

I am an actress first, a singer second.

I only started getting into furs when the designers I liked started making them.

I don't take the English press seriously at all because all they want is dirt... I hate them.

Rock n' roll can get quite overwhelming. You can get caught up in the cycle.

My mother was a champion high-jumper. My three brothers are basketball players. We've all been very athletic.

It is not possible to make a certain evaluation...that cancer may be arrested if 'caught early'.