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J. K. Simmons Quotes

It's nice to be number one on the call sheet.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Nice Call Number Sheet

Part of being a fiction writer is being able to imagine how someone else is thinking and feeling. I think I've always been good at that.

Andrew Clements

Good Think Thinking Someone Feeling

What interests me are the complexities and contradictions and struggles and joys of messy human beings.

Stacey D'Erasmo

Me Messy Human Struggles Interests

There was never a day when I was as good as Joe DiMaggio at his best. Joe was the best, the very best I ever saw.

Good Best Day Never Saw Very

The elderly are all someone's flesh and blood and we cannot just shut them in a cupboard and hand over the responsibility for taking care of them to the state.

Responsibility Care Someone Hand

I don't feel that I'm explaining the world or teaching people anything. And I'm not trying to be a mirror, showing them what's really going on the world. All I'm trying to do is think of stuff that's funny, just like when I'm kidding around with my friends.

Funny Mirror People World Think

I never thought about success. I always thought about doing the job at hand. My goal was getting through the show that night.

Success Job Night Thought Doing

Every winter, I'm a sexy academic deconstructionist. And in the summer, it's normally Brigitte Bardot on holiday in the 1950s.

Winter Sexy Holiday Summer Academic

I finally know what distinguishes man from the other beasts: financial worries.

Man Finance Financial Know Finally

Actors are like Swiss Army knives - we're ready to use any lever at any moment. But I learned long ago that, unfortunately, this industry only sees the one thing sticking out that they know us from, and that's the only thing they can imagine.

Allison Williams

Moment Army Long Ready Know Out

I have my way of dealing with lows in my career: I just go on a holiday. Coping with a failure of a film is like coping with a break-up. It's sad and heart-breaking, and it's not like I got over it right after my holiday; it took me some time.

Failure Sad Time Me Career Holiday

I'm the kind of person who doesn't wait for opportunities to fall from the sky.

Sky Wait Opportunities Fall Person

When l write my own stuff, that's my only alone time. From wake-up to going to bed, I'm with someone. I don't like to do anything alone. I guess it's insecurity. When I travel, I won't go anywhere without people to go do something. I'm happier around people; the more people the better.

Tobias Jesso, Jr.

Alone Time Travel People Insecurity

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