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" We live in a world in which whatever you do has a parody account online in moments. "
Timothy Simons
Whatever
Live
You
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" 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
" 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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" 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
" 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. "
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Writer
You
Change
" 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
" 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
" 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
" I was born in the Northeast, and I have Midwestern parents. "
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Parents
I Was Born
Born
" 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
" 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
" My children, twins who are three years old, they're awful creatures right now. "
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Old
Children
Twins
" 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
" 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.' "
Timothy Simons
Young
Nothing
Age
" 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
" 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'm a dog person, but I don't have a pet. "
Timothy Simons
Dog
Pet
Person
" 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 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 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
" 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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You
Finding
Fun
" I've done a pretty good job of curating a Twitter feed that doesn't make me hate the world. "
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Job
Hate
Good
" 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
" 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
" 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
" The truth is, there is no link between vaccines and autism. Vaccines are incredibly important. "
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Important
Vaccines
Truth Is
" 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
" IPods just made music about how many songs you could have on you at all times. "
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You
Music
Just
" 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
" 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
" 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