J. K. Simmons Quotes

My overall quest is always to do something that's somehow different from whatever it is that I just got done doing. If that can include occasionally playing an older guy who has a romantic side and a romantic relationship, than that's a real treat.

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• I used to stay up all night playing 'Resident Evil 2,' and it wouldn't stop until the sun came up. Then I'd walk outside at dawn's first light, looking at the empty streets of London, and it was like life imitating art. It felt like I'd stepped into an actual zombie apocalypse.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Life
  • Up
  • Art

• Every dogma, every philosophic or theological creed, was at its inception a statement in terms of the intellect of a certain inner experience.

  

  Felix Adler
  • Experience
  • Intellect
  • Dogma

• I always carry lip balm and lipstick. Lipstick is a very important beauty product because I find that lips are the most beautiful feature of anyone's face.

  

  Fan Bingbing
  • Important
  • Beautiful
  • Beauty

• I think that it's important for every single person, no matter what they do in life, to participate in the well-being of humanity and the planet. Don't let a year go by knowing you didn't make an effort to do something - no matter how small - outside your own problems and drama.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Life
  • Important
  • Small

• We can have a World War, I see absolutely no reason why we shouldn't have a World Party.

  

  Vanna Bonta
  • World
  • Why
  • War

• I am a reluctant celebrity, in some ways.

  

  Sade Adu
  • Celebrity
  • Ways

• Of all Iraq's rocket scientists, none drew warier scrutiny abroad than Modher Sadeq-Saba Tamimi.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Rocket
  • Scrutiny
  • Abroad

• In a movie, you have to be mindful that no budget is going to be able to deal with running around the globe at every whim of the writer.

  

  Daniel Clowes
  • Movie
  • You
  • Running

• When high school students ask to spend their afternoons and weekends in my laboratory, I am amazed: I didn't develop that kind of enthusiasm for science until I was 28 years old.

  

  Harold E. Varmus
  • School
  • High
  • Science

• Early in the morning, it's super tough for me to eat right away, but I still need energy for practice. I try to start out with a protein smoothie, a green juice, or some sort of fruit.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Energy
  • Morning
  • Practice

• Before Booker T. Washington, we have small business owners but we do not have a philosopher of black entrepreneurship, and that's what Washington was.

  

  Ed Smith
  • Business
  • Black
  • Small

• Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • Death
  • Road
  • Find

• The kitchen is tough. It's one of the last bastions in civilized culture that sets out to crush the spirit.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Culture
  • Kitchen
  • Tough

• Experimenting with different sounds is great, but when it comes down to it, you're still playing a guitar.

  

  Daisy Berkowitz
  • Great
  • Different
  • Down

• I like being a mother. For some people, it's so much work that it can be a burden. But it's not for me, maybe because I had my daughter, Valentina, later on in life, at 41.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • People
  • Life
  • Work

• American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • Up
  • Business
  • American

• I first met my husband when I was 15. He was very cool, in a band, all that kind of thing, but he took a long time to grow up. Our paths crossed again 10 years later, and after about two weeks I knew that was it. I'm glad I met him when I did, even though I was fairly young. Because I think sometimes you can crystallise into singledom.

  

  Natascha McElhone
  • Up
  • Time
  • Long

• The Constitution shall never be construed... to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms.

  

  Samuel Adams
  • People
  • Never
  • Constitution

• I want to get the maximum out of my career. Football is my life. And when my career is over, I want to look after my family to help my children. That is all.

  

  Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang
  • Life
  • Children
  • Family

• Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.

  

  Buddha
  • Mind
  • Peace
  • Envy

• Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it... that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Fear
  • Doing
  • Conquer

• I really like 'Gladiator.' I like 'The Dark Knight.' I really liked, when I was a kid, 'U.S. Marshalls.' I like funny movies, too. 'Old School' and 'The Hangover.' 'The Hangover' was up there; I liked it.

  

  Matthew Stafford
  • Up
  • School
  • Funny

• Yes, I don't believe that the inter-Korean relationship has, quote, 'deteriorated' since I assumed office. Rather I believe that the relationship between the two Koreas is entering into a new phase - a time of transition. And so I think that the North Koreans are trying to see what they can build with this, with my new administration.

  

  Lee Myung-bak
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Trying

• My overall quest is always to do something that's somehow different from whatever it is that I just got done doing. If that can include occasionally playing an older guy who has a romantic side and a romantic relationship, than that's a real treat.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Different
  • Real
  • Done