J. K. Simmons Quotes

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

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• Digital presentation is just television in public; we're all just getting together and watching TV without pointing the remote control at the screen.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Together
  • Control
  • Digital

• I'm not sure. I did not set it up. I have never done a polygraph test in my life. I didn't know what to expect. I was just there to answer the questions that they put in front of me.

  

  Rafael Palmeiro
  • Life
  • Up
  • Done

• I had to deal with being somewhat of an outcast because it's not socially acceptable to be a struggling musician. There have been times where I've felt sorry for the person I was dating. I felt she deserved better.

  

  Taylor Hicks
  • She
  • Better
  • Sorry

• What Shakespeare was able to do in English he would certainly not have done in French.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Done
  • English
  • French

• The school is the servant of the workshop and will one day be absorbed in it. Therefore there will be no teachers or pupils in the Bauhaus but masters, journeymen, and apprentices.

  

  Walter Gropius
  • School
  • Day
  • Teachers

• I like a man who's good, but not too good - for the good die young, and I hate a dead one.

  

  Mae West
  • Good
  • Man
  • Hate

• I remember back in the early '70s, when I had a disastrous Grand Prix, my wife, Lynn, said to me, 'Don't worry, you're going to be a late boomer.' That's what she said to me, and I've always held that thought.

  

  Ian Millar
  • She
  • Remember
  • Wife

• A lot of people think theatre must be much harder work than film, but anything histrionic or superfluous gets seen on camera so you have to work to distil it into a complete sense of what's true.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • People
  • Work
  • True

• I am at war... with the principal personage of traditional philosophy, that abstract subject who masquerades as everyone and anyone, but is really a male subject in disguise.

  

  Pam Gems
  • War
  • Philosophy
  • Personage

• The minute I started being recognised, I became much more discreet.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Being
  • More
  • Minute

• When we started out in '64, um, I was playing Number One, which was a woman second in command of a star ship.

  

  Majel Barrett
  • Star
  • Woman
  • Ship

• I was just on the edge of getting married, and I was frenzied at the prospect of this great step in my life after having been a bachelor for so long. And I really wanted to take my mind off of the agony, and so I decided to sit down and write a book.

  

  Ian Fleming
  • Life
  • Great
  • Long

• I think there are definitely some people that would say I'm crazy.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • People
  • Think
  • Crazy

• As far as Irish writers being great, I think the fact that there have been two languages in Ireland for a very long time; there has obviously been a shared energy between those two languages.

  

  Garry Hynes
  • Time
  • Great
  • Long

• I do think that same gender partners should be able to be married. Why not? If you share a life together than who in the world should have anything to say about it?

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • Life
  • World
  • Why

• I'm excited about it, thrilled with the success thus far.

  

  Vince McMahon
  • Success
  • Excited
  • Far

• Smoking is one of the leading causes of statistics.

  

  Fletcher Knebel
  • Smoking
  • Statistics
  • Leading

• I didn't think I'd be around 30 years later.

  

  Sammy Hagar Van Halen
  • Think
  • Years
  • Around

• I got everything I wanted. When I was young in Kansas City, I knew nothing about Frank Sinatra, Billy Eckstine, Ella Fitzgerald, of all those concert halls, of all those countries. I did not know what it was like to direct a band... All I wanted was to be big, to be in show-business, and to travel...and that's what I've been doing all my life.

  

  Count Basie
  • Life
  • Business
  • City

• May my heart always be open to little birds, who are the secrets of living. Whatever they sing is better than to know. And if men should not hear them - then men are old.

  

  e. e. cummings
  • Men
  • Heart
  • May

• Chicago still remains a Mecca of the Midwest - people from both coasts are kind of amazed how good life is in Chicago and what a good culture we've got. You can have a pretty wonderful artistic life and never leave Chicago.

  

  Harold Ramis
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• Many women long for what eludes them, and like not what is offered them.

  

  Ovid
  • Long
  • Women
  • Like

• Human beings are of such nature that they should have not only material facilities but spiritual sustenance as well. Without spiritual sustenance, it is difficult to get and maintain peace of mind.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Mind
  • Nature
  • Spiritual

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

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Wanted
  • Read