Davy Jones famous quotes

Once you're in, you're in. It's like the Mafia. Once a Monkee, always a Monkee.
-- Davy Jones

#Mafia

I like tall girls because I like someone to look up to.
-- Davy Jones

#Girl #Looks #Look Up

The Monkees are like the mafia. You're in for life. Nobody gets out.
-- Davy Jones

#Mafia

Do you fear death? Do you fear that dark abyss? All your deeds laid bare. All your sins punished. I can offer you...an escape.
-- Davy Jones

#Dark #Deeds #Sin

I would say that fifty percent of my show is killer comedy.
-- Davy Jones

#Fifty #Killers #Comedy

The racing bug is never going to go away. It's like the Mafia.
-- Davy Jones

#Racing #Mafia #Going Away

The Dutchman sails as its captain commands!
-- Davy Jones

#Captains #Sail #Command

Over the last couple of years I have gotten an average of 2,000 letters a week from fans.
-- Davy Jones

#Couple #Average #Years

And actually, about three weeks ago, Micky, Peter and I were in Vegas at the MGM Grand. And we did about 12 shows in seven days. It was quite an experience.
-- Davy Jones

#Las Vegas #Three #Seven

Life is cruel. Why should the afterlife be any different!
-- Davy Jones

#Afterlife #Different #Life Is

I'd like a glass of cold gravy with a hair in it, please.
-- Davy Jones

#Glasses #Hair #Cold

I was mad at Screen Gems, but I'm not mad at them anymore.
-- Davy Jones

#Mad #Gems

I read a whole bunch of bits and pieces over the years, obviously from the fan magazines and the rest of the stuff, and I just wanted to give a little more insight into what's happening in my personal life.
-- Davy Jones

#Years #Giving #Pieces

I'm really a clean-cut kid.
-- Davy Jones

#Kids #Cutting

I've got a farm in England where I breed horses.
-- Davy Jones

#Horse #Agriculture #England

I never sexually took advantage of being Davy Jones. I wasn’t the kind of guy who would hit on a girl on the road and have casual sex. I don’t have casual sex
-- Davy Jones

#Girl #Sex #Guy

I wanted to be a jockey.
-- Davy Jones

#Jockeys #Wanted

I don't need any more awards.
-- Davy Jones

#Awards #Needs

America changed my life, but I still think of home and working in Scotland was an important part of that.
-- Davy Jones

#Home #Thinking #Scotland

We'll get material in there and all of a sudden I'll switch the material around or the order of the show.
-- Davy Jones

#Order #Shows #Materials

We wanted to interview people on the show, do variety, get the artists, the guests involved with us in our group. They wanted to keep the four guys together. We wanted to change the format.
-- Davy Jones

#Artist #People #Guy

The only people who didn't like The Monkees were the French, and they don't even like themselves, so what's the point?
-- Davy Jones

#People

You know I used to be a heartthrob, and now I'm a coronary.
-- Davy Jones

#Used

The thing is, the reader doesn't want to hear about bad times.
-- Davy Jones

#Want #Bad Times #Reader

During the summer, Screen Gems launched the New Monkees, which miserably failed I understand. I never saw it.
-- Davy Jones

#Summer #Saws #Gems

Before I was an actor I was an apprentice jockey, and now I'm out there racing against boys, sort of the spokesperson for people over 50 that they can do it.
-- Davy Jones

#Boys #People #Racing

As far as groupies, I never saw any of them.
-- Davy Jones

#Saws #Groupie

Justin Bieber stole my haircut. And Axl Rose stole my dance!
-- Davy Jones

#Rose #Justin #Haircuts

I'm a married man. If I want sex at this particular point in my life, I go home for it.
-- Davy Jones

#Sex #Home #Men

My family is a part of my life and everything is all a mixture of enjoyment.
-- Davy Jones

#Mixtures #My Family #Enjoyment

I know a lot of people in the retirement village that I have a house in in Florida that are on the Internet and are reading the paper on the Internet, and they're communicating on the Internet.
-- Davy Jones

#Retirement #Reading #Florida

It used to be 65 when you went into retirement. Before that, when you got into your 50s, you were getting older.
-- Davy Jones

#Retirement #Getting Older #Used

I'm so reluctant to do newspaper interviews because it's so misleading how they interpret what you say.
-- Davy Jones

#Interviews #Newspapers #Mislead

I own property in a quiet little town of Pennsylvania.
-- Davy Jones

#Pennsylvania #Littles #Towns

I got hate letters from girls all over America because I wouldn't go to the prom with them.
-- Davy Jones

#Girl #Hate #America

I'm about to challenge for the Maryland Cup in the next couple of years, as an owner, a trainer, and a rider.
-- Davy Jones

#Couple #Years #Challenges

Now, let's see how you fare against the Flying Dutchman and her vile captain, Davy Jones!
-- Davy Jones

#Flying #Captains

Trash? The only trash I see here are two little boys lost at sea and a pathetic excuse for a seaworthy vessel!
-- Davy Jones

#Boys #Sea #Two

Ah, love. A dreadful bond! And yet, so easily severed.
-- Davy Jones

You can put me in the basement or the penthouse, it doesn’t matter to me.
-- Davy Jones

#Matter #Penthouses #Basements

People always expect you to be jumping out of a Rolls Royce and being in the papers for drunk and disorderly or sleeping around.
-- Davy Jones

#Sleep #Jumping #People

Are you prepared for what's next?
-- Davy Jones

#Next #Prepared

I only bet on what's dearest to a man's heart. Else there is no way to tell if he's bluffing. What a man is willing to risk or not to risk, that's a measure of his soul.
-- Davy Jones

#Heart #Men #Soul

Did you forget? I'm a heartless wretch!
-- Davy Jones

#Heartless #Forget

You will not forestall my judgement!
-- Davy Jones

#Judgement

Life is cruel. Why should the afterlife be any different? I offer you a choice. Join my crew...and postpone the judgment. One hundred years before the mast. Will ye serve?
-- Davy Jones

#Years #Afterlife #Choices

Well, I have my immortal soul. At least, I'm pretty sure I didn't misplace it somewhere along the way.
-- Davy Jones

#Soul #Way #Immortal

In the office, the mail that came in was always 10 to 1 for me.
-- Davy Jones

#Office #Mail

My first ever stage performance was in Edinburgh in 1960.
-- Davy Jones

#Edinburgh #Firsts #Stage

The Beatles set the rules. And the rules were: now just because we have long hair doesn't mean that we're rebellious.
-- Davy Jones

#Mean #Hair #Long

The Monkees changed my life but ruined my acting career.
-- Davy Jones

#Careers #Acting #Changed

And it really pisses Peter and Micky off when I get onto one of those tangents where I start to do humor.
-- Davy Jones

#Humor #Peter

Around the property I have here, I'm about to put an all weather race track. I'm about to build stables. I'm about to ship over a couple of my thoroughbreds from England.
-- Davy Jones

#Couple #Race #Weather

My wife says when I go out to the refrigerator, I do three minutes (entertaining) when the light goes on!
-- Davy Jones

#Light #Wife #Three