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" 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
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" I've done a pretty good job of curating a Twitter feed that doesn't make me hate the world. "
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" My dad was a photographer, so we had all these studio portraits of us. "
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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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" The Duplass brothers do that so well - that very simple, very horrifically awkward comedy. "
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" 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. "
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Love
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Dream
" 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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Stuff
" 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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Old
Me
Believe
" 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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Thought
Construction
Doing
" 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
" 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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Just Because
Job
Chicago
" 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. "
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Law
Enjoyment
Think
" David Letterman was my guy growing up. My parents recorded the tenth anniversary special for me, and I watched it 40 times. "
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Parents
Up
Growing Up
" My children, twins who are three years old, they're awful creatures right now. "
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Old
Children
Twins
" You don't want someone to think you're from New Hampshire, because who cares about New Hampshire? You're basically just a pass-through. "
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Because
Someone
Think
" There is that great thing of D.C. being Hollywood for ugly people. There's very distinct crossover behaviors. "
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People
Being
Great
" 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
" Reed Scott is really good at coming up with insults. "
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Coming
Good
Insults
" 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
" 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. "
Timothy Simons
City
Community
Good
" I'm saying nothing new that Dave Pasquesi is really good at what he does. "
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Nothing
Good
Nothing New
" I don't have actors in my family, but everyone is pretty artistic. "
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Pretty
Artistic
Everyone
" 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. "
Timothy Simons
Night
Film
Children
" My first job in L.A. was actually playing an employee in a Best Buy commercial, but I played a bad employee at another store. I also worked at a commercial casting company running cameras and session directing. "
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Employee
Bad
Best
" 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
" 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
" 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
" 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
" 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'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. "
Timothy Simons
Appearance
Look
Time
" 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. "
Timothy Simons
Problem
Looking
Fun