January Jones Quotes

• Why not show off if you’ve got something to show?

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• People think that I changed my name. I could’ve been an actress, a superhero, or a stripper.

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• My dad liked how January went with Jones. My sisters’ names are Jina and Jacey Jones.

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• ‘Mad Men’ was really my first television role, and it never feels like TV to me. It’s done at such a high level.

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• In this business, I don’t know how you can have a plan or how you can orchestrate anything. But I’ve been lucky with my choices. I’m very strong-willed, so I’ve been able to stick with it. I’m lucky there.

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• If I could do one thing over I’d have been nicer to my parents.

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• If everything always went perfectly, I would feel like, When is the ball going to drop? Because good things don’t always last. Maybe I’m a pessimistic person. When something just seems too good, I can’t believe it.

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  I wanted to be a meteorologist. I wanted to be a marine biologist.

   

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• I lived in a town of 400 until I was like nine or ten. My dad coached all the sports – he was a gym teacher and health teacher for grades K-12.

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• I have that thing in my stomach where I just need to keep striving for things. In my mind, I want the fairy tale.

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• I feel as though my career really hit its high point when I was cast as a supporting actress in ‘American Wedding’. I thought the script had a lot of depth and intelligence, and it really just jumped off the page.

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• I choose roles that are not me.

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• Going to New York to do whatever – show business – it just seemed fun. It seemed fun to go to the big city and meet all kinds of different people and maybe be famous. It was just exciting. So I wasn’t scared.

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• Am I being typecast as a horrible person? I don’t know. I don’t think so. But if it happens, I’d rather get to play that, because there’s nothing fun about being sweet. Sweet can be so boring, so I’d be happy staying away from that.

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• A lot of the stuff that I do with Betty is in the eyes. A lot of the feelings that I evoke with her are unspoken, so that’s been fun to play with.

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January Jones (15)

Birth:	5th January, 1978
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actress, Model

About

January Kristen Jones was born in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, USA. She is an American actress and model. She is best known for playing Betty Draper in the television series Mad Men. For her work on Mad Men she received two Golden Globe nominations and one Emmy nomination. Her role in several films include: Bandits, Taboo, American Wedding, Love Actually, We Are Marshall, Unknown, Seeking Justice, Sweetwater, and Good Kill. Her role in television include: Love's Enduring Promise(TV film) and The Last Man on Earth (TV series). She was ranked No. 82 on the Maxim Hot 100 Women of 2002. She appeared on the cover of "The Hot Issue" of British GQ magazine in May 2009.

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