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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
Tags: world, people, you, best

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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
Tags: going, young, doing, time
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 New York.
— J. K. Simmons
Tags: know, new, never, you
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 do theater.
— J. K. Simmons
Tags: first, career, wife, myself
There's a kind of numbness, a sameness, a lack of motivation in 'good job' culture.
— J. K. Simmons
Tags: motivation, job, culture, good
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
Tags: doing, treat, romantic, relationship
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