Davy Jones Quotes

The Monkees changed my life but ruined my acting career.

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

Did you forget? I'm a heartless wretch!

I don't need any more awards.

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

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

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.

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

Groupies to me, were people who followed you around. Familiar faces who were always there, asking for autographs. We have more of those now, but they're not sexual.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

I'm well in touch with my family, my children. I keep them on my answer phone, so if I want to hear one of their voices, all I have to do is punch it up and it will be there.

People ask me if I ever get sick of playing 'Daydream Believer' or whatever. But I don't look at it that way. Do they ask if Tony Bennett is tired of 'I Left My Heart in San Francisco?'

The Dutchman sails as its captain commands!

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

The Monkees were never cancelled for a start. NBC wanted to do a third year.

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

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

It's not about what you have, it's what people think you have.

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.

I wanted to be a jockey.

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

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

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

I like tall girls because I like someone to look up to.

Wherever I go, people still shout out: 'Hey, hey, we're The Monkees.' And I never tire of that.

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

I never slept alone until I was married.

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

I'm really a clean-cut kid.

There's an audience for everything.

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

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

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

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.

Are you prepared for what's next?

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

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.

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

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

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.