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J. K. Simmons

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I don't respond to authority figures who abuse their authority. - J. K. Simmons
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Teaching is in my blood. - J. K. Simmons
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I come from a family of educators. My sister is a college teacher. My dad is a college teacher, but first a junior high teacher. - J. K. Simmons
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Most of my friends - when I was five, six, seven years old - their dads were working in an auto plant in Detroit until 5:30, and then they were sat in rush hour. They weren't around as much. My dad finished at three o'clock, so he was just around more. - J. K. Simmons
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I do respond well to a director, a teacher - someone who doesn't accept mediocrity. - J. K. Simmons
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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. - J. K. Simmons
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I went from being a jock to a hippie. It was a very clear-cut decision. I had to be one or the other. I had to forsake that other aspect of myself. Or thought that I had to, which is regrettable. Quickly, I was back in the pine trees with the hippies, listening to my Jimi Hendrix and my Janis Joplin and turning on, tuning in, and dropping out. - J. K. Simmons
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When I got out of college, I moved to Seattle because it was the nearest big city and still didn't know if I wanted to be a composer, conductor, singer, actor. I just got day jobs and auditioned and took what came, and the theater doors were the ones opening the most. - J. K. Simmons
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If I see a now-28-year-old woman coming up to me, she's probably thinking of 'Juno' because she watched it with her parents when she was 18 years old. - J. K. Simmons
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In lean times, you get plenty of sleep, and you're not flying around everywhere. - J. K. Simmons
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If you're doing a prison show, HBO is the absolute best place in the world to be doing that because you're not going to have to do all that, you know, 'Prison Break' stuff where you can't really behave and speak like people do in a maximum-security prison. - J. K. Simmons
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Screaming is hard after a while. - J. K. Simmons
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Music to me was never something that I could listen to while reading a book. Especially when I was studying music, if I was going to listen to music, I was going to put on the headphones or crank the stereo, and by God, I was going to sit there and just listen to music. I wasn't going to talk on the phone and multitask, which I can't do anyway. - J. K. Simmons
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When we were shooting 'Oz,' my wife was doing 'Beauty and the Beast' on Broadway, singing and dancing. It was an interesting dichotomy in our house. - J. K. Simmons
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If you are lucky enough to have a parent or two alive on this planet, call them. Don't text; don't e-mail. Call them on the phone. - J. K. Simmons
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Seriously, who doesn't want to slap a 27-year-old movie star? - J. K. Simmons
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You can't play a guy who's just a snake, because what do you draw on? - J. K. Simmons
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People evolve and it's important to not stop evolving just because you've reached 'adulthood.' - J. K. Simmons
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I never listened to the Grateful Dead as a teen; the only exposure I got was what came through the walls when my sister was listening to them. - J. K. Simmons
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There's another film - a little Greek movie - that hopefully is going to get some distribution here in the U.S., called 'Worlds Apart,' where I also play a 60-year-old guy who looks a lot like J.K. Simmons, who has a romantic relationship with an appropriate woman. - J. K. Simmons
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With these big superhero movies, everybody is so tight-lipped about everything, there's a certain amount of just going on faith. - J. K. Simmons
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