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J. K. Simmons Quotes

I never had intention of coming to New York or L.A. and actually doing more than scraping by - you know, doing plays. And as my career sort of progressed of its own volition, I did come to New York.

J. K. Simmons

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actor
Nationality: american
Birth: January 9, 1955

Topics

New York Doing You Career Intention

Retiring from writing is to avoid the inevitable bitterness which a writing career is bound to deliver as its end product in almost every case.

Jim Crace

Writing End Career Bitterness Avoid

When we worked on 'Girls,' we've had some really meaningful dialogue with our fans and with critics and really learned a lot of things. Like, on the question of diversity, we heard people, and we responded, which is very different from, like, 'Hey fatty, what are you doing on TV?' And that's what we're trying to avoid.

Jennifer Konner

Diversity People Doing Trying You

Bitcoin is a peer-to-peer, decentralized form of money, as durable as the Internet itself. Remember, the Internet - or DARPA, as it was originally called - was created as a fail-safe, global network with no 'single point of failure.' If one part goes down, data takes another route, and nothing is lost.

Max Keiser

Failure Money Internet Data Remember

Over the course of 20 years that I've been at NBC, I have never seen the amount of money I make reported correctly by the media.

Matt Lauer

Money Media Never Over Years Seen

Even when I get dressed up to go out, I never use too much makeup.

Ana Ivanovic

Makeup Too Much Dressed Go Never Up

I think Amazon is a place where people don't want to work.

Steve Ballmer

Work People Think Place Want Where

The way I write my shows, every character is its own organic thing. No character has a life at all until I see it played by somebody.

Shonda Rhimes

Life Character Way Write See Own

For 200 years we've been conquering nature. Now we're beating it to death.

Tom McMillan

Nature Death Now Years Been Beating

Art is feminine... Look, if you're handsome and young and beautiful, well, people are always going to say that you're gay.

Juan Gabriel

Beautiful Art People Handsome Look

In the business world, if you're not looking ahead, you're missing something.

Jared Polis

Business World Looking You Ahead

Maxwell is serious, dedicated, awkward, forgetful, pompous to a certain degree, sentimental.

Don Adams

Serious Degree Sentimental Awkward

It was here in Edinburgh that in the 1980s I joined with many others to protest against Margaret Thatcher as she arrived to address the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland.

Douglas Alexander

Church Others She Against Here