Ron Cephas Jones Quotes

Being an actor in L.A. is like being in prison: you go, you serve your time, you try to replicate Johnny Depp's career - and then you move to Paris.

Most young actors, that's all they're trying to do: Get better at acting and be able to keep doing it. And that doesn't work out for most people.

Once I moved to Chicago and started trying to get acting jobs, I just tended to book more things that were comedically based than anything else. I never had the preconceived notion, 'I will be a comedic actor.' I just thought, 'I'll go into acting and see what kind of work I can get.'

I started off as an actor thinking that I would be this Romeo, this dashing leading man. It turns out that I'm a character actor.

It's a very odd thing with Hollywood, where you do stand-up, you're good at it, then they go, 'How would you like to be a horrible actor?' Then you say, 'All right, that sounds good. I'll do that.'

I've been very lucky and been able to work, as an actress, but I'm definitely a working actress. I get a script, I audition, and then I pray.

I hope I have quite a few great roles to come.

I didn't really have any aspirations to do TV when I first decided to be an actor.

I'm not good at Disney acting. I'm really not. I never was on that audition list, which I don't mind. I don't know. I look back, and I'm kind of wiping my forehead at the thought of, 'What if I had gone that route?'

When I wanted to be an actress, I never wanted really to be the kind of actress I became.

I gave up a long time ago trying to figure out what will happen in an acting career.

Can't remember a time when I didn't want to be an actor... though it felt like something I couldn't do until I grew up. I mean, I knew kids could be actors - I recall seeing them on my dad's shoots and getting jealous.

I'm just so glad that I started acting when I did because I had this wealth of life experience. I don't know if I'd have been able to handle it had I gone out to L.A. at 22.

I think it would be amazing to be a character actor and still be a lead now and then in movies.

I should be one of those actors who has a list. A lot of people do - 'I wanna do this and this and this' - but I don't. I enjoy being surprised - indeed, often ambushed - by a role.

I really think that everybody would like to be an actor. Why wouldn't they? It's great work if you can get it. The one thing that prevents most people from saying, 'I'm just gonna go to Hollywood!' is that it seems unrealistic.

I didn't start out to be a movie star. I started out to be an actor.

Luckily, I was raised by people who'd already seen all the yuck stuff, which is why they originally didn't want me to act. I understood the difference between getting a part at a Hollywood party and getting a job.

I had been doing all my school plays, elementary school, middle school, and high school, and then summer. I'd wanted to act for a long time, and I thought I was going to go to college and do theater, go that route. But 'Superbad' kind of fell on my lap. I was very, very lucky for that.

I have no complaints with the whole childhood acting thing, because I wanted to do it.

When I got 'Family Ties', I wasn't even thinking about being an actress. I thought I might become a window dresser.

I spent so long studying really hard to become a fine actor, but threw it all away because I got the adulation and the fame so easily.

I'd done about 10 movies before I decided I wanted to make acting the main thrust of my career.

I think for any actor, for the roles they deeply, truly want? They always have to audition for them.

I recognize how lucky I am as an actor. I've been working as an actor since I was 9 years old.