Words matter. These are the best Ron Cephas Jones Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
My daughter gets a lot of her natural music ability from her mother because she’s a world-class singer, also.
Beale Street is a very famous street in the history of America. You know, American music in particular. From the blues to jazz, it’s a connecting city from New Orleans that goes all the way up to Buffalo through New York.
I don’t think there’s a day that goes by where I go to the supermarket that a woman doesn’t come up and want to give me a hug. It’s a crazy thing when you’re in the freezer department and some woman comes up behind you and says, ‘Can I just hug you, please?’ When it first happened, it really blew my mind.
Caliban is one of the most difficult characters to play because there’s not a lot of history there. It’s sort of a half-animal, half-man, and there’s not a lot of background.
I think most actors don’t start out wanting to be either a lead or a character actor. You just really want to work, whatever manifestation that takes.
I can use all the hugs I can get.
That’s my job as an actor – to go on and try to do the work so subtle and so fine and specific that the memories will linger for a long time.
Life is precious – very, very precious.
Acting is revealing the truth that is already within you and that reflects the character that you’re doing.
‘Essence’ is political. I grew up on the magazine, looking at the covers. Seeing ourselves on the cover is political.
I like to shop for old jazz albums.
Jazz, and the history of jazz, is the history of America.
I learned a lot about American history though jazz, and that’s why I loved American history when I was in high school. I could hear different stories – the story that they would tell in school, and then the story that I would hear in the music.
I have a very close relationship with my daughter.
I’m a Jersey kid originally, and I went to Ramapo State College. That was back in ’78.
As we like to say on ‘This Is Us,’ death is not a release. Our main character has never been alive for the entire run!
I have a beautiful collection of albums and try to frequent record stores.
When you’re young, you want things to happen right away. And sometimes that doesn’t always develop in the way you want it to. But my thing was to continue to work, in whatever element I could.
I have people that have died from cancer and friends that are dealing with cancer.
