Davy jones quotes

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

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

The only people who didn't like it [The Monkees] were the French, and they don't even like themselves, so what's the point?

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

I guess it's nice to have someone to love while you're looking for someone to love.

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

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

The Monkees changed my life but ruined my acting career.

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

Are you prepared for what's next?

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

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

I own property in a quiet little town of Pennsylvania.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

I wanted to be a jockey.

My first ever stage performance was in Edinburgh in 1960.

You will not forestall my judgement!

The Dutchman sails as its captain commands!

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

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

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

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.

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

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?

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

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.

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

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

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.

I don't need any more awards.

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

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.

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

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

Did you forget? I'm a heartless wretch!

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

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

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

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

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

I'm really a clean-cut kid.

Justin Bieber stole my haircut. And Axl Rose stole my dance!

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.

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.

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

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

I never slept alone until I was married.

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

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

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