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" I used to love going to shows and finding new bands, but the Internet takes the fun out of it. Like a band? You can buy and download every single song they have ever done within five minutes. "
Timothy Simons
You
Finding
Fun
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" I'll believe I made it when I'm 100 years old, I'm still able to get work, and they're about to put me in a coffin, and I'll be like, 'Yeah, OK, it went all right.' But until then, I'm not saying it. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" I got my SAG card doing a Kentucky Fried Chicken commercial in Chicago. "
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" 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. "
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" I'm a night person, but because of being in the film business and having children, my schedule has shifted, and I'm always terrified that I'm going to oversleep. "
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" I really wanted to go to a city and get involved in a theater scene and a theater community. I had some friends who had moved out to Chicago and had said really good things about it and about the work. I didn't care at that time about making money. "
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Good
" It's much harder to get a job if nobody wants you around. "
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Wants
Nobody
" I'm very much in favor of vaccinations, and I've been very vocal about that because it's insane to forgo this. "
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Been
Very
Much
" I've done a pretty good job of curating a Twitter feed that doesn't make me hate the world. "
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Hate
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" If you're going to go to an audition, you don't want to go in trying to force yourself into some archetype that has been thought up by a director and translated by a casting director. "
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Thought
Yourself
You
" There is that great thing of D.C. being Hollywood for ugly people. There's very distinct crossover behaviors. "
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Being
Great
" There are people I've met in L.A. who kind of only talk about the business. Because maybe they think that's the best move. "
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Think
People
Business
" Reed Scott is really good at coming up with insults. "
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Coming
Good
Insults
" 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. "
Timothy Simons
Writer
You
Change
" I don't have actors in my family, but everyone is pretty artistic. "
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Pretty
Artistic
Everyone
" My children, twins who are three years old, they're awful creatures right now. "
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Old
Children
Twins
" If you didn't watch 'The Shield,' you should stop everything you are doing and go back and watch 'The Shield.' "
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Go
Doing
Back
" 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. "
Timothy Simons
Law
Enjoyment
Think
" 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
Me
City
Because
" Keeping children alive and free of disease is not a political issue and cannot be put into a partisan box. "
Timothy Simons
Alive
Box
Political
" 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. "
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Problem
Looking
Fun
" 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. "
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Poet
Sister
Brother
" I grew up in Maine working at a video store and found myself being pulled more and more to on-camera stuff. "
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Working
Up
Stuff
" 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. "
Timothy Simons
Born
Tall
School
" 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. "
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Sight
Move
Money
" The Duplass brothers do that so well - that very simple, very horrifically awkward comedy. "
Timothy Simons
Brothers
Well
Simple
" 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. "
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People
Professional
Bad
" IPods just made music about how many songs you could have on you at all times. "
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You
Music
Just
" I was born in the Northeast, and I have Midwestern parents. "
Timothy Simons
Parents
I Was Born
Born