When I go back to New York all these years later, I’ll walk down Seventh Avenue, and I’ll hear, ‘Yo, Oz!’ In New York, I get recognized for that all the time. – J. K. Simmons
My overall quest is always to do something that’s somehow different from whatever it is that I just got done doing. If that can include occasionally playing an older guy who has a romantic side and a romantic relationship, than that’s a real treat. – J. K. Simmons
I wasn’t a comic book aficionado at all when I was a kid, but my cousin Weed was. Every time we went to visit him on the farm, he had two really fun things: comedy albums and comic books. – J. K. Simmons
My full name’s Jonathan Kimble, but my parents didn’t want to call me either. So for a while, I went by Kim, which is a name for a girl or a Korean person. – J. K. Simmons
By the time I started doing TV and film, I was in my forties, so I wasn’t going to do the young up-and-comer. – J. K. Simmons
If I was doing a musical, I would never listen to the cast album, because I wanted to do my version of something. – J. K. Simmons
Music has become so ever-present in our lives. You can’t walk through a shopping mall or go into a restaurant without what we used to call Muzak. – J. K. Simmons
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
I was studying music in college. I was singing, I was doing operas and Gilbert and Sullivan operettas, and then I was offered a job as the music director of the Bigfork Summer Playhouse, in Bigfork, Montana. – J. K. Simmons
After the second and final time that I got hugely fat in my life and when I lost that weight six or seven years ago, I pretty much decided that I was going to stay in decent shape for the rest of my life. – J. K. Simmons
I’ve had a contemptuous relationship with authority throughout my life. I found myself at odds with authority, and I’m disdainful of blind authority. – J. K. Simmons
Almost every character I’ve ever played – and sometimes this is very conscious and sometimes it’s not – I need to find what they love. – J. K. Simmons
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. – J. K. Simmons
I’m not a fan of any genre but am a fan of movies that are intelligent and/or funny. That goes across all genres: a horror movie, a zombie movie, alien invaders, chick flick, or raunchy comedy. If it’s well done, I’m a fan. – 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. – J. K. Simmons
