J. K. Simmons Quotes
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When we were shooting 'Oz,' my wife was doing 'Beauty and the Beast' on Broadway, singing and dancing. It was an interesting dichotomy in our house.
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For me, the lean times were a wonderful, beautiful time of my life, struggling for many years in regional theater all over the country for not much money.
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I don't respond to authority figures who abuse their authority.
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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 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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I've had a contemptuous relationship with authority throughout my life. I found myself at odds with authority, and I'm disdainful of blind authority.
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You can't play a guy who's just a snake, because what do you draw on?
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Screaming is hard after a while.
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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 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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I am who I am. I have a low voice, and I look like somebody's dad or boss or a police chief, and those roles come my way.
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We're raising a generation of kids who are being overly praised for incredibly minor accomplishments. I think it's counter-productive.
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I've always believed, maybe naively, that 'The play's the thing.'
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Seriously, who doesn't want to slap a 27-year-old movie star?
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I want to be like Bradley Cooper when I grow up.
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I was studying music in college. I was singing, I was doing operas and Gilbert and Sullivan operettas, and then I was offered a job as the music director of the Bigfork Summer Playhouse, in Bigfork, Montana.
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I've been so blessed to have the opportunities that I've had.
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Maybe when my kids are grown up, I can go back to Broadway. It would be great someday, I suppose.
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I like to stay home. I don't want to be away shooting in Europe for six or eight months at a stretch.
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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.
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For me, if the words are good on the page, the rest of it comes from spending some time with the script, and not like you're learning lines but absorbing what the script has to offer.
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I was in New York. I had been doing theater for many years, and then I got hired to a little part - they weren't calling it an extra, but I didn't have lines. It was a 'featured' part.
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Music to me was never something that I could listen to while reading a book. Especially when I was studying music, if I was going to listen to music, I was going to put on the headphones or crank the stereo, and by God, I was going to sit there and just listen to music. I wasn't going to talk on the phone and multitask, which I can't do anyway.
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Whether you need to like a character, I don't think that's necessary in order to portray him.