Top 59 Jim Parsons Quotes
#1. I basically look like a lot of modern Orthodox people you know, but I work on a TV show where I sometimes have to kiss Jim Parsons. That's why I don't take on the title of modern Orthodox, but in terms of ideology and theology I pretty much sound like a liberal modern Orthodox person.
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#2. I have never been an activist for anything.
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#3. There's no audience to wonderfully get in your way when you're doing a single-camera anything, whether it's a sitcom or drama or film. And I do mean that in the best way.
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#4. If I ever wrote a script myself, it would be strongly emotional material.
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#5. I was very average in the social label scale going through school. I was neither the coolest person in school, nor did I suffer the slings and arrows of being made fun of to such a degree that I couldn't get through the day.
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#6. I want to drive! I love to drive! I drive at home in Barbados.
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#7. It's a shame, but every time I get something scientific in the script, I read up to find out what I'm talking about - but then I'm on to the next script and it's forgotten.
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#8. I had a very strong interest in music, specifically the piano from a very small age.
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#9. My choices in projects have all been character or role-based, and on a financial level, it's obvious: as an actor on a TV series, I get a wonderful paycheck, and a consistent paycheck, which doesn't always happen when you're doing theater or movies.
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#10. To have a job you can count on as an actor is so rare, whether that means belonging to a regional theater company or being on TV.
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#11. I was very fascinated with meteorology at a young age. I lived on the Gulf Coast and hurricanes blew through there. That is the class I failed in college: meteorology.
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#12. As a human being, you know that there are some days when you'd rather not talk to anybody - but I can't really do that anymore without appearing rude.
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#13. Being in TV, we get to do it again and again until it's 'right.' There's a part of me that likes the other way, that aspect of theatre where there's no chance to go back.
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#14. Apparently, all I do is walk my dogs. In L.A., I have more of a yard existence, and so I enjoy walking my two little dogs in New York - one's a Maltese and the other's a Shih Tzu.
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#15. I feel like the universe is so big it'd be foolish to pull out the "no" for it.
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#16. I've been a working actor for many years, but it's not always been successful for me. I certainly struggled in the past.
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#17. I've done so much theater, and yet I never had an experience like 'The Normal Heart.' We could feel the reaction of the audience every night. It was visceral.
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#18. Home is where you feel unjudged, and where what I do isn't necessarily stupid or wrong.
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#19. You just have to speak up. You just have to say, 'I would like to do this,' and it's amazing what people who listen can do for you.
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#20. The theater I got to do informs every move I make as an actor and will for the rest of my life. I can't shake it if I wanted to, but I don't want to.
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#21. I couldn't tell you a good, bad or ugly pilot just from reading it, but I can tell you a character I want to play.
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#22. It's made it easier to communicate important issues, but I wonder if connecting with millions of people online is ever as arresting to someone's attention as one man standing and screaming in front of City Hall.
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#24. When suddenly everybody is guessing, or some even getting close, to the ballpark of what you're earning - well, that's interesting, that everyone knows what you make.
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#25. 'The Big Bang Theory' has completely changed my life.
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#27. I don't think the jet-setting life is really for most people.
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#28. When I first started out in Houston, it was theater or bust. And I loved it. I still love it. And then I went to undergraduate and graduate school for acting.
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#29. Oh gravity, thou art a heartless bitch.
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#30. Every time I think about writing, comedy doesn't interest me in the slightest. I can play comedy, but I don't think in terms of comic dialogue.
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#31. I think intelligence is usually sexy until it becomes irritating. After that, you're stuck.
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#32. The TV schedule is essentially four or five days to get in touch with the story you're doing that week.
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#33. I came from a family in Texas who simply never spoke about money.
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#34. My hiatus timeline is so minimal, there's only a select number of projects that I can go in for.
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#35. What this is about is hopefully an opportunity for me to help pave the way for my future in terms of getting financially choosier. You have to plan the windfall as if it'll be your only one.
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#36. I grew up with two different parakeets - one that lived for five years, and one that lived for 13 years - so I always had a bit of an attraction to birds and it's an oddly good fit to be in a movie about birdwatchers.
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#38. [Voicing a cartoon] feels like going down a mysterious but joyful black hole. Once you relax for 15 or 20 minutes, and really go, "I don't care if I look like an ass," it's really fun to see what happens. You know that nothing is being visually judged.
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#39. Playing Sheldon is just heaven for me. I realize how enormously lucky I am to play a role that makes me so incredibly happy. As I told Chuck Lorre in a Christmas card a few years ago, I'm living a version of the dream.
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#40. I'm not crazy; my mother had me tested
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#41. I've always loved TV very much, and as a child I was so religious with it, but now it's more when it fits in.
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#42. Theatre was my first love. I can't take the theatre out of me. And I wouldn't want to. To me, it's home.
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#43. The whole time I've been an actor, from early in Houston, my goal has been to work - to keep doing it. I feel at my most satisfied as a human being when I'm working on a role.
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#44. My Emmy competition is awfully good. My stomach is already in knots. The problem is that I don't drink, so I can't calm myself that way. I wish I could be better at pretending I don't care.
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#45. My favorite sci-fi movie of all time is 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind.'
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#46. I've grown out of dancing in my car - is it sad? Or I've just become a better driver!
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#47. I did have a Twitter account that I tried for a couple days, but found I had nothing to say. There are some interesting facts I could share, but I don't want to share that part of myself.
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#48. I think in any form of acting, you're always well served if you've done theater.
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#49. You learn a lot as a kid, like you don't know anything. I didn't know what was gonna happen if I opened the door. I thought I was gonna be in another world somehow.
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#50. Well, I'm a big believer in 'never say never.'
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#51. I try to master every facet of a character in order to build a safety net for myself, so I can go on to take more risks to create someone really distinct.
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#52. All I can do is keep working, keep auditioning, keep talking to people - and whatever it takes to show other colors.
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#53. I'm only human, and therefore, there's a part of me that's waiting for people to say, 'Enough of you!'
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#54. (Wil Wheaton) was so fun to have on the set, and he was such a good guy, just in general. He seemed to be completely okay with the fact that his entire name became a mantra of vengeful hate. That didn't seem to bother him.
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#55. Once, I lived in an apartment with a skylight in the bathroom. Every winter, it would snow through the skyline, but we got a discount because of it.
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#56. I would be horrible at Twitter. I wouldn't know the answer to fans' questions half the time - and the patience involved! I couldn't imagine. I did have a Twitter account that I tried for a couple days, but found I had nothing to say.
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#57. Coffee is to wake up, coffee is to work with, coffee is to live with, coffee is life
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#58. I'm also a big 'American Idol' fan. I think it's just great fun.
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#59. I was a very shy child. I remember being in a kindergarten open house with my mother and children saying 'Hi' to me, and I still remember feeling this way - but I don't know why - but I wouldn't even say 'Hi' back. I was that shy.
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