J. K. Simmons Quotes

Whether you need to like a character, I don't think that's necessary in order to portray him.

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• I have ideas that I think might be amusing, and I try them, and if they look right, I carry them out, and if they don't, I throw them out and try something else. I don't agonize about it.

  

  Iris Apfel
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• I think the show does better with newsmakers and politicians than it does with actors.

  

  Samantha Bee
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  • Politicians

• I do movies that I would like to go and see. I think that's a good barometer of how I choose films. I like going to these movies. Our job is to make sure the audience gets their $16 worth. That's my job.

  

  Sam Worthington
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• I'm a bit of a 'Throny,' as I think the 'Game of Thrones' fans refer to themselves.

  

  Nathalie Emmanuel
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  • Game
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• I think because Sport Lux has come in and leisure wear is a new thing, girls can sneak in hoodies and leggings and so on where they wouldn't normally - it has been proper legitimate fashion.

  

  Zoe Foster Blake
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  • Fashion
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• What is extraordinary about the character of Edna - and I speak as though I am completely outside this character and I am talking to you - I'm, as it were, in the wings, and she's on stage, and every now and then she says something extremely funny, and I stand there and think: 'I wish I'd thought of that.'

  

  Barry Humphries
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• There are a lot of actors who will sit here and talk to you about characters - 'He does this, and she's a really interesting character because she does this.' I'm not like that at all. I'm not an actory actor.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
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• I think on a whole host of issues Washington tends to be a lagging indicator on public opinion.

  

  Dan Pfeiffer
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  • Opinion
  • Washington

• I think poetry's always a kind of faith. It is the kind that I have.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
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  • Faith
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• He who builds a masjid in the way of Allah, God will build a house for him in the paradise.

  

  Abu Bakr
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• I think Detroit is where muscle meets brains.

  

  Dan Gilbert
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• If I don't love my character, I can't do it.

  

  Tahar Rahim
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• What drew me to the character is that Roberto Duran is the son of an American soldier - a Marine - stationed in Panama and a humble Panamanian mother, and he was abandoned.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
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• I don't do something because I think it will sell 30 million albums. I couldn't care less. If it sells one, it sells one.

  

  Oscar Peterson
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• I played a character in 'Ransom' who was as evil as they come.

  

  Gary Sinise
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• I don't think you really have chemistry in the way that you want between two actors unless frustration is there as well.

  

  Omari Hardwick
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• I always wear the shoes of the character a week before going on set; the idea of just putting on a new pair of shoes on the first day of filming is just horrific.

  

  Felicity Jones
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• I think I'd like to be one of those eccentric 80-year-old women.

  

  Imelda May
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• I think that educators are in sales. Essentially, what you are doing is making an exchange with your class. You're saying, 'Give me your attention. In exchange, I'll give you something else.' The cash register is not ringing. It's not denominated in dollars or cents or euros, but it is a form of sales in a way. It is an exchange.

  

  Dan Pink
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• My purpose is to create a mirror for the reader to see themselves, to create a light for people to see themselves in the characters, pictures, and stories. So they resonate.

  

  Kadir Nelson
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• By the ruler's cultivation of his own character there is set up the example of the course which all should pursue.

  

  Confucius
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  • Cultivation

• Since Ummah is a society on the move, a society not in place, but on the way, towards an objective, having a direction, then we need an Imam (from the same root as umma) to lead us toward that objective.

  

  Ali Shariati
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• I don't want to be an absent mother. Otherwise, why have children?

  

  Indira Varma
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• Whether you need to like a character, I don't think that's necessary in order to portray him.

  

  J. K. Simmons
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