American - Actor | January 9, 1955 -
I read 'Whiplash,' and I wanted to do it.
J. K. Simmons
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When I read the script and saw the jazz music setting, and when I read the name of the filmmaker was Damien Chazelle, I immediately got this mental image of Antoine Fuqua.
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I read a very romantic book when I was young, when I was in college: Rilke's 'Letters to a Young Poet.' And I've always felt that if you are in any kind of an artistic, creative endeavor, and you feel there's something else you can do for a living and be happy, I think you should do something else.
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I started out as a singer and a musician, and I was taught that your job is just to get out of the way of Brahms or Arthur Miller or Shakespeare and convey the brilliance that they created.
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I've always believed, maybe naively, that 'The play's the thing.'
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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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