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 s...”

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

“Fortunately, for the first 20 years in my career, I didn't have any other responsibilities outside of myself. I didn't have a wife and kids, so I could afford to sort of barely scrape by, to...”

“I never had intention of coming to New York or L.A. and actually doing more than scraping by - you know, doing plays. And as my career sort of progressed of its own volition, I did come to N...”

“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.”