Jim Parsons Quotes
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I was a very shy child.
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I don't think the jet-setting life is really for most people.
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My choices in projects have all been character or role-based, and on a financial level, it's obvious: as an actor on a TV series, I get a wonderful paycheck, and a consistent paycheck, which doesn't always happen when you're doing theater or movies.
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It's made it easier to communicate important issues, but I wonder if connecting with millions of people online is ever as arresting to someone's attention as one man standing and screaming in front of City Hall.
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I came from a family in Texas who simply never spoke about money.
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I've done so much theater, and yet I never had an experience like 'The Normal Heart.' We could feel the reaction of the audience every night. It was visceral.
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Well, I'm a big believer in 'never say never.'
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When suddenly everybody is guessing, or some even getting close, to the ballpark of what you're earning - well, that's interesting, that everyone knows what you make.
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I try to master every facet of a character in order to build a safety net for myself, so I can go on to take more risks to create someone really distinct.
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Being in TV, we get to do it again and again until it's 'right.' There's a part of me that likes the other way, that aspect of theatre where there's no chance to go back.
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You just have to speak up. You just have to say, 'I would like to do this,' and it's amazing what people who listen can do for you.
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I'm only human, and therefore, there's a part of me that's waiting for people to say, 'Enough of you!'
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My favorite sci-fi movie of all time is 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind.'
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Once, I lived in an apartment with a skylight in the bathroom. Every winter, it would snow through the skyline, but we got a discount because of it.
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When I first started out in Houston, it was theater or bust. And I loved it. I still love it. And then I went to undergraduate and graduate school for acting.
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If I ever wrote a script myself, it would be strongly emotional material.
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I have never been an activist for anything.
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In L.A., I have more of a yard existence, and so I enjoy walking my two little dogs in New York - one's a Maltese and the other's a Shih Tzu.
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'The Big Bang Theory' has completely changed my life.
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I was very fascinated with meteorology at a young age. I lived on the Gulf Coast and hurricanes blew through there. That is the class I failed in college: meteorology.