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" My dad was a photographer, so we had all these studio portraits of us. "
Timothy Simons
Had
Photographer
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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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" 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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Dream
" I got my SAG card doing a Kentucky Fried Chicken commercial in Chicago. "
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Chicken
Fried Chicken
Chicago
" 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
" Reed Scott is really good at coming up with insults. "
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Coming
Good
Insults
" The one thing I always think about when I don't get jobs is that it just wasn't yours. You don't want to do something that you're not right for because it won't make the production look good, and it won't make you look good. "
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Good
You
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. "
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Me
City
Because
" After school, I was planning to jump from regional theater to regional theater. "
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Jump
After
School
" 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'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
" We live in a world in which whatever you do has a parody account online in moments. "
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Whatever
Live
You
" 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
" I grew up in Maine working at a video store and found myself being pulled more and more to on-camera stuff. "
Timothy Simons
Working
Up
Stuff
" I was born in the Northeast, and I have Midwestern parents. "
Timothy Simons
Parents
I Was Born
Born
" 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
Back
" 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
" The truth is, there is no link between vaccines and autism. Vaccines are incredibly important. "
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Important
Vaccines
Truth Is
" IPods just made music about how many songs you could have on you at all times. "
Timothy Simons
You
Music
Just
" 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
" 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 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
" 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 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
" 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. "
Timothy Simons
Because
Someone
Think
" 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
" 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
Me
Know
" 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
" 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