Jay Paoloni
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| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Arts |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Location | New York, New York, United States |
| Introduction | I act, but never in life. It started off as a passion, a commitment. Then it became something else and, honestly, I still haven't found the proper terms to define it. I do not know why I act. I know that there is a reason, and a profound one; a higher scope. But as things develop, as I grow, I feel I am less and less ready to attempt to describe it, or to forecast results. I write too, again as a passion. Maybe acting and writing force me to face myself, my darkest recesses, my inner contradictions, and everything that, for a reason or the other, remained pending. Technically, I try to do it to the best of my skills. I try to come as close as possible to my standards of perfection. This is all I can do and say about it. Everything else is a matter of course; it happens in a different dimension and I have no power whatsoever over it. |
| Interests | Acting, writing, writer, reading, literature, psychology, Carl Gustav Jung, Kriya Yoga, arts, environment, photography, animals, music, dreams, dream analysis, active imagination, individuation process. |
| Favorite movies | Gran Torino, Blade Runner, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, the Bridges of Madison County, Midnight in Paris, Inception, Frenzy, The Lady Vanishes, Strangers on a train, Vertigo, The Wrong Man, Notorius, Man on the Moon, The Mask, Educating Rita, Gosford Park, The Antichrist, Melancholia. |
| Favorite music | Classical, Pink Floyd, Ennio Morricone, Alan Silvestri, Gustavo Santaolalla, The Queen, Scissor Sisters, Beatles, Bob Dylan, Sarah Brightman, Loreena McKennitt, The Alan Parson's Project, Tracy Chapman. |
| Favorite books | Memories Dreams Reflections, The Name of the Rose, Pygmalion, The Importance of Being Earnest, Moby Dick or The Whale, In Search of Lost Time, A Christmas Carol, Saint Joan, Lost in Yonkers, Death of a Salesman, True West, Glass Managerie, Edgar Allan Poe, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Lord Byron, Dickens, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Blake, Wordsworth. |