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The Monkees changed my life but ruined my acting career.

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Davy Jones
Age: 65 †
Born: 1946
Born: December 30
Died: 2012
Died: March 29
Actor
Film Actor
Musician
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Stage Actor
Television Actor
Manchester
England
David Thomas Jones
David Jones
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Ruined
Career
Careers
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Acting

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Ah, love. A dreadful bond! And yet, so easily severed.
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During the summer, Screen Gems launched the New Monkees, which miserably failed I understand. I never saw it.
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I was mad at Screen Gems, but I'm not mad at them anymore.
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I wanted to be a jockey.
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It's not about what you have, it's what people think you have.
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The thing is, the reader doesn't want to hear about bad times.
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And it really pisses Peter and Micky off when I get onto one of those tangents where I start to do humor.
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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?
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The Monkees are like the mafia. You're in for life. Nobody gets out.
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I'd like a glass of cold gravy with a hair in it, please.
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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.
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America changed my life, but I still think of home and working in Scotland was an important part of that.
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The racing bug is never going to go away. It's like the Mafia.
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