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" If you didn't watch 'The Shield,' you should stop everything you are doing and go back and watch 'The Shield.' "
Timothy Simons
Go
Doing
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" There is that great thing of D.C. being Hollywood for ugly people. There's very distinct crossover behaviors. "
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Being
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" 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. "
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Celebrity
Death
Weird
" 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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Night
Film
Children
" IPods just made music about how many songs you could have on you at all times. "
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You
Music
Just
" Keeping children alive and free of disease is not a political issue and cannot be put into a partisan box. "
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Alive
Box
Political
" 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
" 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.' "
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Young
Nothing
Age
" 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 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
" 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
" 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. "
Timothy Simons
Pretty
Artistic
Everyone
" There is a part of me that really just thinks it would be so funny to see the 'Veep' characters in 'Game of Thrones.' "
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Thinks
See
Me
" It's much harder to get a job if nobody wants you around. "
Timothy Simons
You
Wants
Nobody
" After school, I was planning to jump from regional theater to regional theater. "
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Jump
After
School
" 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. "
Timothy Simons
Chicago
Friends
Small
" 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. "
Timothy Simons
People
Professional
Bad
" It's so odd because I don't even know if I'm cut out for it, but being a movie star guy, I sort of end up gravitating toward the Coen brothers. That's one of the reasons my wife and I moved to L.A.: that however much of a pipe dream that would be, I moved to L.A. because I'd love to work with the Coen brothers. "
Timothy Simons
Love
Work
Dream
" I'm a dog person, but I don't have a pet. "
Timothy Simons
Dog
Pet
Person
" 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. "
Timothy Simons
Sight
Move
Money
" The Duplass brothers do that so well - that very simple, very horrifically awkward comedy. "
Timothy Simons
Brothers
Well
Simple
" I'm saying nothing new that Dave Pasquesi is really good at what he does. "
Timothy Simons
Nothing
Good
Nothing New
" 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
" 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. "
Timothy Simons
Old
Me
Believe
" 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
" My children, twins who are three years old, they're awful creatures right now. "
Timothy Simons
Old
Children
Twins
" We live in a world in which whatever you do has a parody account online in moments. "
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Whatever
Live
You
" 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. "
Timothy Simons
Poet
Sister
Brother
" 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
" 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. "
Timothy Simons
Thought
Yourself
You