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You don't get a script sent to you for two years, it crosses your mind, 'Gee, what's going on?' Then five years pass, and pretty soon a decade has gone by. Finally, you say to yourself, 'Well, if in fact that's it, then let me be happy with 30 pictures that made about $460 million and pictures that made a lot of people laugh.'

~Dean Jones

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The great privilege it has been to work with some of the most talented people on the face of the earth. My first scene in a movie was with James Cagney, for goodness sakes. There I was, just out of the U.S. Navy without an acting lesson to my name.

~Dean Jones

Topics: Acting Been Earth Face First Goodness Great James Just Lesson Most Movie Name Navy Out People Privilege Scene Some Talented Talented People Without Work

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'Mandie and the Secret Tunnel' - the book and now the movie - pits a very young woman against forces she cannot control and events she cannot possibly know about. She's in way over her head, and you're pulling for her from the opening scene.

~Dean Jones

Topics: About Against Book Cannot Control Events Forces Head Her Know Movie Now Opening Over Possibly Pulling Scene Secret She Tunnel Very Way Woman You Young Young Woman

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After 50 years in the motion picture business, I'm still learning my trade. This recent shoot of 'Mandie and the Secret Tunnel' was a revelation. The two young directors, Joy Chapman and Owen Smith, represent a group of actors, directors, and cinematographers all over the country that never show up in New York or Hollywood.

~Dean Jones

Topics: Actor After Business Country Directors Group Hollywood Joy Learning Motion Motion Picture Never New New York Over Picture Recent Represent Revelation Secret Shoot Show Smith Still Trade Tunnel Two Up Years York Young

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I think, if I had a big flop, that probably it would have ended the string at Disney, but it didn't! Every film was a success.

~Dean Jones

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My bag is acting or getting into an amusing situation and then sharing my amusement.

~Dean Jones

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A family film is a very particular and explicit form. Family films typically include adult principles that are moral, but they should be as intelligent, funny, and intriguing as any other film.

~Dean Jones

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I wish I could say I had this master plan for a career, but I always thought acting was something I'd just do until I had a hit record.

~Dean Jones

Topics: Acting Always Career Could Had Hit Hit Record Just Master Master Plan Plan Record Say Something Thought Until Wish I Wish

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I have made 34 pictures, 10 of them for Disney, and none of them for Disney were really bad characters. So I think that recently I have kind of begun to hide behind certain actor's devices in order to make a dividing line between what I used to do and the characters I have been asked to do today.

~Dean Jones

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You have more real truth to draw from if you are playing evil. We see so much of it around us in our culture, and we also have so much of it in our nature, which we are always warring against, as it were.

~Dean Jones

Topics: Against Also Always Around Culture Draw Evil More Much Nature Our Playing Real See Truth Us Were Which You

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Actor

Born: January 25th, 1931

Died: September 1st, 2015

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