American - Actor | January 9, 1955 -
Whether you need to like a character, I don't think that's necessary in order to portray him.
J. K. Simmons
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My full name's Jonathan Kimble, but my parents didn't want to call me either. So for a while, I went by Kim, which is a name for a girl or a Korean person.
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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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I'm just first of all looking for a part that's well written and speaks to me.
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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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I just saw 'Men, Women & Children' last night, and it's a devastating movie in a lot of ways, but it's so well done, so well acted.
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I'm just glad to be able to work.
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I have a degree in music, yeah, from the University of Montana. I studied voice and composition and conducting and all that.
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I read a lot of scripts, and there's a lot of good writing and a lot of OK writing and a lot of crappy writing. And even with the really good writing, it doesn't necessarily speak to me.
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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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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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After the second and final time that I got hugely fat in my life and when I lost that weight six or seven years ago, I pretty much decided that I was going to stay in decent shape for the rest of my life.
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