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So when you make an impression in a certain kind of role, that tends to be the type of role that you get offered.

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.

Ive done Hay Fever and this one was called Another Time by Ronald Harwood.

Jeffrey Jones

Time

Part of the film business is, if you want an apple, you buy an apple.

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

Jeffrey Jones

Theatre

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.

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

Jeffrey Jones

Brother

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.

There may be the kinds of things that you may find interesting, but then there's also the practical reality of needing to make a living and this is what you have to choose from.

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

Jeffrey Jones

Job

Want

I've gotten to go wonderful places, meet interesting and intelligent people, and I started of course in the theatre and continue to work in the theatre where there is some intelligence involved in it.

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.

Jeffrey Jones

Power

Character

But it's true, it's nothing new that decisions about what movies are to be made, and how they're to be made, and who's to be hired to do what, and whether you hire somebody to do their job, or whether you hire somebody to fill a position and you tell them what to do.

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.

Every actor wants to have a character that changes, that has some kind of movement, that gets from point A to point B, that doesn't just supply one note.

Jeffrey Jones

Character

Actor