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" There is that great thing of D.C. being Hollywood for ugly people. There's very distinct crossover behaviors. "
Timothy Simons
People
Being
Great
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" 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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" 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. "
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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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" After school, I was planning to jump from regional theater to regional theater. "
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" 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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" I'm saying nothing new that Dave Pasquesi is really good at what he does. "
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Nothing
Good
Nothing New
" 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
" 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 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. "
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Finding
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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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Hate
Good
" 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
" 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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Yourself
You
" 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 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. "
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High School
Good
Studying
" My children, twins who are three years old, they're awful creatures right now. "
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Old
Children
Twins
" IPods just made music about how many songs you could have on you at all times. "
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You
Music
Just
" 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
" 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
Up
Growing Up
" 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
" It's much harder to get a job if nobody wants you around. "
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You
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
" 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
" 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
" I was born in the Northeast, and I have Midwestern parents. "
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Parents
I Was Born
Born
" 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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City
Community
Good
" 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
" 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 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