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J. K. Simmons Quotes

I play tons of authority figures, whether it's the dad or the cop or the boss. I think it's a combination of how I look, who I am.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Boss I Am Think Look Play Authority

I still love finding the soul of the characters I play and defining who they are. This to me is my paint set, and the colors are always exciting to choose.

Andie MacDowell

Love Soul Me Colors Finding Choose

I think there's a great difference in consciousness in that same way in that when we're young we read books for the story, for the excitement of the story - and there comes a time when you realise that all stories are more or less the same story.

Great Time Story Think You Young

How we present ourselves matters a lot, and that's every American, not just at the senior levels.

Stanley A. McChrystal

Present American Matters Senior Just

Even though chess isn't the toughest thing that computers will tackle for centuries, it stood as a handy symbol for human intelligence. No matter what human-like feat computers perform in the future, the Deep Blue match demands an indelible dot on all timelines of AI progress.

Future Intelligence Progress Blue

In high school, I worked at Abercrombie & Fitch, and once I graduated from business school at USC, I started a company with my partner and had a nine-to-seven job.

Business Job School High School High

The fans in Canada have been there since day one. They're the originals. When people say that's your roots, that's literally my roots. I've just cut this tree off and replanted it somewhere else and it started growing. But the roots are there.

Tree Day People Roots Canada Say

When I was in my freshman year at college I took some acting classes and found that I fell in love with it again.

Mary-Kate Olsen

Love College Year Acting Again Some

We simply have to reign in the piggish people and money-hungry lawyers who chase every ambulance they see and expect companies and individuals to pay for everything that goes wrong.

People Lawyers Wrong Pay See Expect

When I'm writing a book, you can't think about your audience. You're going to be in big trouble if you think about it. You're got to write from deep inside.

Writing Book Deep Think You Trouble

I'm thinking of sending out censorship packets: information to share with those who want to defend my books when they come under fire. I'll tell why I wrote them and include reviews and letters of support from children and their parents.

Children Fire Support Parents Want

When I was sixteen, I wrote the first hundred or so pages of a novel about a piano that was haunted by the ghost of an evil blues musician.

Jonathan Tropper

Evil Blues First Piano Ghost Novel

When I get down, I don't waller around for long.

Long Down Get Around

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