J. K. Simmons Quotes

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.

J. K. Simmons

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• I've always cared about fashion and what I look like. I don't like to spend a lot of money on designer clothes, but I do like to look good.

  

  Zac Efron
  • Good
  • Money
  • Fashion

• Caffeine is a good thing.

  

  Manoj Bhargava
  • Good
  • Caffeine
  • A Good Thing

• The good part is if I play a solid round of golf, it will be very hard for the others to beat me. And that's all I'm thinking about.

  

  Adam Derek Scott
  • Good
  • Thinking
  • Golf

• Going to a party, for me, is as much a learning experience as, you know, sitting in a lecture.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Experience
  • Party
  • Learning

• I feel a responsibility to the fans who have paid to see me and I want to give as good a show as I possibly can.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Good
  • Me
  • Responsibility

• I still think reading something like 'Ulysses' takes a tremendous investment of time, but it repays all of it with so much interest.

  

  D. B. Weiss
  • Time
  • Think
  • Reading

• The third time you say a thing it sounds like a lie.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Time
  • You
  • Lie

• I felt like an outsider. The only time you get to really know guys is on the ice, and I couldn't be there.

  

  Saku Koivu
  • Time
  • Know
  • Ice

• Can anything good come of a backward way of thinking like judging someone based on skin color? No way.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Good
  • Thinking
  • Color

• Sometimes sushi is just superb, and other times there's nothing like a great big steak. It depends where your taste buds are at the time.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Time
  • Great
  • Sometimes

• The future is keeping you out of the present time.

  

  Van Morrison
  • Time
  • Future
  • Present

• What you compose with is neither here nor there, you compose with words, or you compose with stone plants and trees, or you compose with events; the Sheriff's officer, or whatever.

  

  Ian Hamilton Finlay
  • Words
  • Trees
  • Plants

• Sometimes for a lot of new artists, they don't have a vision, really, or know what they want to say; it's kind of drawn out for them. But me, because I'm such a transcendental thinker, it's always like a journey and an adventure with each project. It's like going through a different doorway each time.

  

  Bobby Ray Simmons Jr.
  • Time
  • Different
  • Vision

• It's never been important to be a huge star or to have some breakout role. If you're the lead, you get a lot more screen time and you get a lot more chances to develop that character more thoroughly than you would if you do it in a little supporting part.

  

  Famke Janssen
  • Time
  • Important
  • Character

• A book tour is not a good opportunity to let your mind wander. You have to pay attention, remember salespeople's and interviewers' names, succinctly summarize your book in a 'selling' way, and so on.

  

  Ian Frazier
  • Good
  • Mind
  • Book

• I've had writing sessions with people, but I've never had one where you're just there, and you start making a song, and then it's too good to be true that something really cool will come out of this.

  

  Camila Cabello Fifth Harmony
  • People
  • Good
  • Writing

• I was frustrated for a long time with my colleagues in the business school world and with so many management authors who didn't really see themselves as innovators. They were glorified journalists.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • Time
  • World
  • Long

• I think it's good to live an artful life.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Life
  • Good
  • Live

• Thug: This is a stickup! Now come on. Your money or your life.

  

  Jack Benny
  • Life
  • Money
  • Thug

• When I was growing up, we had a widow living next door to us. So the habit was that if we went to the grocery store, we called her first. If we cut our yard, we cut her yard, no questions asked.

  

  Lynn Good
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Door

• Winning the Super Bowl was obviously a great one, but the joy I felt of going to the Super Bowl, it was what I felt about the Pittsburgh Steelers and where we came from, the history of us to that point.

  

  Joe Greene
  • Great
  • History
  • Joy

• I really romanticized being pregnant. Then I realized, this is awful!

  

  Marcia Cross
  • Awful
  • Pregnant
  • Romanticized

• We do things differently. You don't have to worry about being part of a particular genre. You just go for it.

  

  Tyler Joseph Twenty One Pilots
  • Worry

• 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.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Time
  • Good
  • Words