"I don't always want to play the wacky, crazy parts. I love having the opportunity to play a regular person in an irregular situation in a very realistic way."

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Source : "Interview With Locker 13 Star and Uncle Rico Himself Jon Gries". Interview with Bobby Blakey, www.axs.com. April 07, 2014.

Jon Gries

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“I grew up in Europe, and I used to like those very slow-moving European films. I've been contaminated by the American TV culture, and I just want things to move faster now.”
“I have a way of dealing with situations where I come off awkward, or people think Iâ€™m purposely trying to make things uncomfortable. But normally Iâ€™m talking really slowly or thereâ€™s a lot of silence because thereâ€™s just nothing going on. Iâ€™m just totally freaking out, but from the outside perspective it looks like Iâ€™m in control.”
“The process that we go through in recording with Tool is very organic, but at the same time it is very thought out. There is a very left-brain process of dissecting what we're doing and drawing from source material; it's very research oriented and esoteric.”
“I was deeply concerned then, and have become more concerned since, that unless we can deal with the questions of development and the questions of poverty, there's no way that we're going to have a peaceful world for our children.”
“Then I did The Tao of Steve and that was at Sundance in 2000 where it did really well.”
“The character I play in Star Quality says acting is the be-all and end-all of her life. I'm not like that. I do enjoy working and I give every job my best shot but I never feel, What on Earth am I going to do now?”
“Instead of constantly adapting to change, why not change to be adaptive?”
“Management is a far more homely business than its would be scientists suggest, more closely allied to cookery than any other human activity. Like cooking, it rests on a degree of organisation and on adequate resources. But just as no two chefs run their kitchens the same way, so no two managements are the same.”

Source : "The Naked Manager". Book by Robert Heller, p. 12, 1972.

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