J. K. Simmons Quotes
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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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When I go back to New York all these years later, I'll walk down Seventh Avenue, and I'll hear, 'Yo, Oz!' In New York, I get recognized for that all the time.
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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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I went from being a jock to a hippie. It was a very clear-cut decision. I had to be one or the other. I had to forsake that other aspect of myself. Or thought that I had to, which is regrettable. Quickly, I was back in the pine trees with the hippies, listening to my Jimi Hendrix and my Janis Joplin and turning on, tuning in, and dropping out.
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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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It's nice to be number one on the call sheet.
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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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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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Education is very important to me.
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My aunt was so attuned to commercials that she could always identify the voiceover actor.
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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 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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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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I play tons of authority figures, whether it's the dad or the cop or the boss. I think it's a combination of how I look, who I am.
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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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With these big superhero movies, everybody is so tight-lipped about everything, there's a certain amount of just going on faith.
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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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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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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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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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Whether you need to like a character, I don't think that's necessary in order to portray him.
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I'm just glad to be able to work.
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I come from a family of educators. My sister is a college teacher. My dad is a college teacher, but first a junior high teacher.