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" I started out with the intention of studying physics. I was a terrible high school student outside of the fact that I did well in physics, but there's a big difference between being good at physics and being a physicist, so I jettisoned that very quickly. "

Timothy Simons

High School

Good

Studying

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Thinks

See

" You're taught from a very young age that you shouldn't get too big for your britches, so I tend to err way too much on the side of 'Nothing means anything.' "

" My dad's a photographer, and my sister is a writer and a poet. My little brother is a mandolin player - he's a bluegrass musician. It's always been a part of the family. "

" If you didn't watch 'The Shield,' you should stop everything you are doing and go back and watch 'The Shield.' "

Timothy Simons

Doing

Back

" When I was a carpenter, I built sets for small storefront Chicago companies. Like, I built sets for friends of mine at The House Theater. "

" I was born tall. I was awkward and gangly. Before that, I was a really chubby elementary school kid. I've always been sort of a physical abnormality. "

" I've done a pretty good job of curating a Twitter feed that doesn't make me hate the world. "

" I got my SAG card doing a Kentucky Fried Chicken commercial in Chicago. "

" I took one class at Second City called Improv for Actors, and that was it, and that was only because my agent told me I had to. "

Timothy Simons

City

Because

" I think I was a behavior problem, mostly, but in a fun way. I tried to tell jokes. I was the middle kid, so I was always looking for attention and trying to be the one that equalized everything. "

" After school, I was planning to jump from regional theater to regional theater. "

" I like sort of esoteric and weird Twitter jokes. But I actually unfollow people if they make jokes about a celebrity's death within the first two minutes of that celebrity dying. "

" Truthfully, I don't like the binge-watching model. I think that if you give everybody everything all at once, there's very much a law of diminishing returns as far as their enjoyment of them. "

" David Letterman was my guy growing up. My parents recorded the tenth anniversary special for me, and I watched it 40 times. "

Timothy Simons

Parents

Growing Up

" I'm saying nothing new that Dave Pasquesi is really good at what he does. "

" I'm particularly bad at breaking if something's funny. I'm not professional, so I do often laugh, but less at what I do and more often at what other people do. "

" I don't have actors in my family, but everyone is pretty artistic. "

" I don't know, and certainly I've been guilty of making a judgment about a celebrity, but there's a part of me that's like, 'Why don't you take the time you're spending ripping James Franco and go do something you like?' "

Timothy Simons

You

Know

" The truth is, there is no link between vaccines and autism. Vaccines are incredibly important. "

" Unless you're playing a historical figure, a writer or director can change their minds. And sometimes your job is to make them change their minds - to make them believe that you're the one that can do it. "

" I've lived with myself for a very long time, so I'm aware of what I look like. I'm under no false pretense that I'm a stunner, so if somebody comes up and says something about my physical appearance, it's okay. "

" Ultimately, I just made the decision to move to L.A. sight unseen. It took me a while to save up some money to do it. "

" I think the absolute worst job I ever had - not because it was a terrible job, just because I was just so bad at it - was when I worked at a scenic factory in Chicago. "

" My children, twins who are three years old, they're awful creatures right now. "

" Keeping children alive and free of disease is not a political issue and cannot be put into a partisan box. "

" When I was in Chicago, I was working as a carpenter while I was doing plays. I thought it'd be a fun set construction job, but it turned up to just be a straight-up factory. "

" I was born in the Northeast, and I have Midwestern parents. "