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Jeffrey Jones Biography

Jeffrey Duncan Jones (born September 28, 1946) is an American actor best known for his roles as Edward R. Rooney in Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986), Charles Deetz in Beetlejuice (1988), Skip Tyler in The Hunt for Red October (1990), and A.W. Merrick in Deadwood (2004–2006). His career started in Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis, Minnesota and advanced to London and Broadway. In film and television, Jones has had many roles which capitalized on his deadpan portrayal of characters in unusual situations, often to comic effect. He was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for his portrayal of Joseph II in Amadeus (1984) and a Screen Actors Guild Award as part of the ensemble cast of Deadwood.

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I know a lot of people who are very good at their craft who have learned - people behind the camera - who really have a lot to offer because they know what they're doing, they know what to do, they've made their mistakes.

Cameras, Craft, Good, Mistake, People

I just hope that some of the movies I'm in are still welcome years from now.

Hope, Movies, Stills, Welcome, Years

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

Angeles, Play, Plays, Reading, Theatre

I would like to feel that I have a range and that it's not just a matter of being a comic actor or a serious actor, because those are really artificial classifications, I think.

Actors, Comic, Like, Matter, Think, Thinking

Well, my brother was a schizophrenic, so I understood it in a different way from seeing my brother.

Brother, Different, Understood, Vision

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.

Become, Cannibalistic, Character, Point Of View, Robert, Views

If you're an employer, you want to hire an employee who'll do their job, not do your bidding.

Bidding, Employee, Employer, Jobs, Want

Certainly Amadeus because it was a very powerful time for me, we filmed it in the Czech Republic at a time of lots of social and political change going on in that part of the world.

Czech, Czech Republic, Filmed, Part, Political, Powerful

I only know from my own personal experience, and I personally feel that there's a cyclical nature to things, so you don't want to start making generalizations about how bad things have become in comparison to the old days.

Feels, Generalization, Making, Personal, Things, Want

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.

Attention, Character, Draw, Jobs, Whole, Work

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.

Actor, Appeal, Connection, Connections, Doctors, Thinking

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.

Apartment, Gave, House, Son, Support, Work

I think the same way about theatre, you go out there and you are creating a world for a moment that can actually have a real impact on people, present some kind of story that gives you something to think about when you walk away, feeling enriched - if it works out well.

Creating, Gives, Real, Thinking, Way, World