Ron Cephas Jones Quotes

Ron Cephas Jones

Profession : Actor

Birth : January 8, 1957

Every morning that I wake up and I'm breathing, I can feel it and take a moment to say, you know, 'Thank God I'm alive for another day.'

Ron Cephas Jones

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.

Ron Cephas Jones

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.

Ron Cephas Jones

Adam Clayton Powell Jr. was a very savvy character. His drinking and carousing, his charisma and intelligence... the things he did in Congress. He passed for white, then became a black advocate.

Ron Cephas Jones

God bless my mother; I know you're looking down on me.

Ron Cephas Jones

Life is precious - very, very precious.

Ron Cephas Jones

I can use all the hugs I can get.

Ron Cephas Jones

I have a very close relationship with my daughter.

Ron Cephas Jones

I've always loved Harlem and its communities.

Ron Cephas Jones

I like to shop for old jazz albums.

Ron Cephas Jones

I wanted to be a jazz musician.

Ron Cephas Jones

I have a beautiful collection of albums and try to frequent record stores.

Ron Cephas Jones

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.

Ron Cephas Jones

Every actor wants that - to have a great character and then continue to add more into the depth of his life.

Ron Cephas Jones

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.

Ron Cephas Jones

'Essence' is political. I grew up on the magazine, looking at the covers. Seeing ourselves on the cover is political.

Ron Cephas Jones

When you know your history, you have a better vision of where you're going. And, when you have that, there's no stopping you.

Ron Cephas Jones

Jazz, and the history of jazz, is the history of America.

Ron Cephas Jones

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.

Ron Cephas Jones

My daughter gets a lot of her natural music ability from her mother because she's a world-class singer, also.

Ron Cephas Jones