J. K. Simmons Quotes

Maybe when my kids are grown up, I can go back to Broadway. It would be great someday, I suppose.

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• Maybe when my kids are grown up, I can go back to Broadway. It would be great someday, I suppose.

  

  J. K. Simmons
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