90 Quotes by J. K. Simmons

A lot of the stuff about white-supremacist groups was very family-friendly: 'We just love our people.' One the surface, you go, 'Gee, what's wrong with loving your people?' But when you love your people to the exclusion of everything else that's remotely different, that's when you get into trouble.

In lean times, you get plenty of sleep, and you're not flying around everywhere.

I would like to find, or I would like a part to come to me that is like the part that Dennis Franz was fortunate to be able to play on 'NYPD Blue,' a sort of similar-looking actor to me, a generic, bald white guy who you would often think of as playing the authority figure. But he was the disgruntled middle-man. That would be a fun character.

There's a kind of numbness, a sameness, a lack of motivation in 'good job' culture.

For me, the lean times were a wonderful, beautiful time of my life, struggling for many years in regional theater all over the country for not much money.

You can't play a guy who's just a snake, because what do you draw on?

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

With these big superhero movies, everybody is so tight-lipped about everything, there's a certain amount of just going on faith.

Good material is good material.