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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• 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
  • Fans

• When you a darker brunette and have pale skin like I do, it can wash you out a bit, so learning to contour is really helpful. I think you can be a bit more bold with eye makeup to define your eyes, and the same with lip colors - you can go for dark wine colors, which I love.

  

  Olivia Wilde
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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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• 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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  • Stage

• It is the duty of every good officer to obey any orders given him by his commander in chief.

  

  Nathan Hale
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  • Duty
  • Him

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

  

  Natasha Trethewey
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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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  • Come

• 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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• You become a different writer when you approach a short story. When things are not always having to represent other things, you find real human beings begin to cautiously appear on your pages.

  

  Zadie Smith
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• Comedy used to be a vehicle for change. Now, comedy has gotten to this quirky, nonsensical place, which I enjoy. But I do think there is room for discussion-based humor. We can tell those stories in a way that feels edifying.

  

  Kenya Barris
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• In fact, for all kinds of offenses - and, for no offenses - from murders to misdemeanors, men and women are put to death without judge or jury; so that, although the political excuse was no longer necessary, the wholesale murder of human beings went on just the same.

  

  Ida B. Wells
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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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