J. K. Simmons Quotes

Everybody has a stunt except me. Every single person has a stunt, but I don't have a stunt, there's nothing. No wire, no pulling. I try to get in on the danger, but there's nothing.

Everyone has an opinion; the question is which opinions are actually relevant to your journey and which are just static in the air?

Fabulous is as fabulous does.

'Fabulosity' is to get up when you've been kicked down, and it's not to go after who kicked you down.

I wanted my closet to look like a boutique.

For me it's always God, family, and then my work.

I like everything with a heaping dose of feminitity, including my cell phone. I created this phone for the classic woman, who like me, loves diamonds & wants a wireless.

I have a lot of hang-ups in life with men. I'm not very trusting.

In this life, you have to risk big to win big.

I have a really big mouth, I have a lot of opinions and I will be heard.

Very few people know this, but I love organizational products and tools. One of my favorite places to shop are container stores where you can get bins, boxes and crates to organize your life.

The greasier, the better.

I'm lucky, always hopeful... I love my life.

If you're shy, get the hell over it: You're slamming the door in your own face.

You can never control other people. You can only control yourself. I have definitely learned that.

I'm fiercely protective of my children even though we are on TV.

You never want to do anything that you don't want your mother to see, because it will haunt you and eventually come back to bite you!

Being a working mom, you want to make a difference in our schools, which is making a difference in our children and ultimately it's making a difference in our community.

anything a guy can do a girl can do better...except being stupid

I'm much more into old-world, intimate conversations on the phone. I like to write letters.

I feel like I'm a good motivator; I'm very determined.

I don't believe that fashion should exclude people - I have always been about making it accessible to everyone.

I am not the kind of girl that gets in trouble.

Relationships do change throughout the course of your life, and I always think in terms of relationships changing and evolving rather than starting and stopping.

No matter what your goals are, you've got to bring other people onto your team. For one thing, if you surround yourself with people who want to be successful, you become successful.

All children can do things to help, whether how big or small - by donating toys or lending a hand in the community.

I think my customers, my fans are really like my family now - it's like a movement of fabulosity.

I'm not used to having a boss. I'm the boss. I don't need the money. I'm filthy f... rich!

In almost any situation, it is far more devastating to keep your icy cool while the other person gets herself in a flush-cheeked, teary-eyed hot mess yelling in your face.

You don't have to dumb down - you just have to find a clever, good, secure man. I've found a couple - I've been lucky - but it's probably hard for everybody to find that true love of a good man.

I'm very interested in stopping time. And starting time. There is that aspect of time that I'm playing with, that it's elusive and unnoticed yet really in the end the most important thing.

My father was a dentist. And my mother was a - do we still say "housewife"? A home engineer.

People are much more willing nowadays to believe that pictures lie than [that] they can express any kind of truth.

I've always gone for a kind of perfection.

You mine your own past in order to get to know yourself.

I think making features has got to be in the addiction category.

Oh god, success is so exhausting.

I think the big news there - most post-menopausal women I know are not celibate.

I feel like an artist often turns the camera on themselves and on their own families to understand who they are.

I think I'm still, in many ways, a terribly self-conscious person. I'd probably be shooting and think, "Well, how does my hair look?"

I've always gone for a kind of perfection. In the end, it's so much better to get the feeling of, "Wow, she's so perfect," from a doll than to have to bear that from a woman in a magazine.

The thing that a lot of people may or may not know is every artist is a cinephile, whether they watch movies whether they're painting, or have films that influence them.

I was aware that people thought a certain type of photo work was either stealing, borrowing, copying or dumb.

We've run out of good projects. This is not a money issue... If these oil companies had fantastic projects, they'd be out there [developing new fields].

We need to find three Saudi Arabias just to offset [the] decline.

I put my heart and soul into my book - great story and awesome characters... yet people are trying to pull me down.

Old black water, keep on rollin' Mississippi moon won't you keep on shinin' on me?

Be yourself and you will find, who minds doesn't matter and who matters won't mind.

I plan for the future, but the only day I really worry about is the day I'm living right now.

I was always into staying busy, into my goals, into making notes and planning. I'm not one who truly lives in the past.