J. K. Simmons Quotes

J. K. Simmons

Profession : Actor

Birth : January 9, 1955

With these big superhero movies, everybody is so tight-lipped about everything, there's a certain amount of just going on faith.

J. K. Simmons

I'm not a fan of any genre but am a fan of movies that are intelligent and/or funny. That goes across all genres: a horror movie, a zombie movie, alien invaders, chick flick, or raunchy comedy. If it's well done, I'm a fan.

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Most of my friends - when I was five, six, seven years old - their dads were working in an auto plant in Detroit until 5:30, and then they were sat in rush hour. They weren't around as much. My dad finished at three o'clock, so he was just around more.

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If you are lucky enough to have a parent or two alive on this planet, call them. Don't text; don't e-mail. Call them on the phone.

J. K. Simmons

If you're doing a prison show, HBO is the absolute best place in the world to be doing that because you're not going to have to do all that, you know, 'Prison Break' stuff where you can't really behave and speak like people do in a maximum-security prison.

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There's a kind of numbness, a sameness, a lack of motivation in 'good job' culture.

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I completely agree with feeling the need for or the benefits of being pushed and of being directed on a project and collaborating.

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Being evil is easy.

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My understanding, from what I've learned so far about Commissioner Gordon, is that he's the older guy with the mustache who relates with our hero in a certain way.

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My full name's Jonathan Kimble, but my parents didn't want to call me either. So for a while, I went by Kim, which is a name for a girl or a Korean person.

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A lot of the stuff about white-supremacist groups was very family-friendly: 'We just love our people.' One the surface, you go, 'Gee, what's wrong with loving your people?' But when you love your people to the exclusion of everything else that's remotely different, that's when you get into trouble.

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I've always believed, maybe naively, that 'The play's the thing.'

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When I got out of college, I moved to Seattle because it was the nearest big city and still didn't know if I wanted to be a composer, conductor, singer, actor. I just got day jobs and auditioned and took what came, and the theater doors were the ones opening the most.

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I read 'Whiplash,' and I wanted to do it.

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I actually have a degree in music and was aware that music was a tool used in therapy. I didn't realize how far it had come since I was in college in the mid-seventies.

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I never listened to the Grateful Dead as a teen; the only exposure I got was what came through the walls when my sister was listening to them.

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I like to act. Every other aspect of show business I find uninteresting.

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People evolve and it's important to not stop evolving just because you've reached 'adulthood.'

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I was not a giant comic book fan as a kid, but to the extent that I did read comics, Spider-Man was always my favorite guy.

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The best complement I ever got from the public or producers or directors is that I just totally blend in and become the character and they don't notice me and that the play happens or the movie happens or the TV show happens.

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