J. K. Simmons Quotes
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Almost every character I've ever played - and sometimes this is very conscious and sometimes it's not - I need to find what they love.
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Maybe when my kids are grown up, I can go back to Broadway. It would be great someday, I suppose.
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I would like to thank the 49 actors who appear on screen in 'Whiplash' for realizing Damien Chazelle's vision so beautifully.
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Music to me was never something that I could listen to while reading a book. Especially when I was studying music, if I was going to listen to music, I was going to put on the headphones or crank the stereo, and by God, I was going to sit there and just listen to music. I wasn't going to talk on the phone and multitask, which I can't do anyway.
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Music has become so ever-present in our lives. You can't walk through a shopping mall or go into a restaurant without what we used to call Muzak.
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I had many, many mentors that I worked with. Music teachers, choir directors, directors in summer stock or in regional theater. You know, people I was able to work with repeatedly and learn from who were really sort of appropriate people for me to work with at a given time in my development as an actor.
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I wasn't a comic book aficionado at all when I was a kid, but my cousin Weed was. Every time we went to visit him on the farm, he had two really fun things: comedy albums and comic books.
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On 'Oz' one day, I got a chunk of a camera embedded in my head, and I was passed out on the floor geysering blood while the set medic stood over me, freaking out. No help whatsoever. I ended up going to the ER and getting nine stitches in my head – real Frankenstein stitches.
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Sometimes I read a really good script, and I just know that it's not a good fit.
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It's nice to be number one on the call sheet.
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I was not a giant comic book fan as a kid, but to the extent that I did read comics, Spider-Man was always my favorite guy.
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If the awards buzz is happening, and it's coming from critics and people in the business and all of that, that's only more good news.
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Everybody does their homework, and we all come together and just knock it out. There are adjustments to make, and if you have actors who are collaborators and who really know how to listen and be in the scene together, than it works out beautifully.
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If I was doing a musical, I would never listen to the cast album, because I wanted to do my version of something.
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By the time I started doing TV and film, I was in my forties, so I wasn't going to do the young up-and-comer.
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My aunt was so attuned to commercials that she could always identify the voiceover actor.
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Whether you need to like a character, I don't think that's necessary in order to portray him.
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There's a kind of numbness, a sameness, a lack of motivation in 'good job' culture.
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I want to be like Bradley Cooper when I grow up.
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I'm just glad to be able to work.
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If I see a now-28-year-old woman coming up to me, she's probably thinking of 'Juno' because she watched it with her parents when she was 18 years old.
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Fortunately, for the first 20 years in my career, I didn't have any other responsibilities outside of myself. I didn't have a wife and kids, so I could afford to sort of barely scrape by, to do theater.
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The best complement I ever got from the public or producers or directors is that I just totally blend in and become the character and they don't notice me and that the play happens or the movie happens or the TV show happens.
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People evolve and it's important to not stop evolving just because you've reached 'adulthood.'