J. K. Simmons Quotes

Last year my wife got a Rolls-Royce.

I'm like a stuffed toy. You've never met me, but if you did, you'd just want to take me home and put me in your child's room.

I don't have a lot to offer one person. I have a lot to offer to a lot of people.

I give people permission to be kids again.

There is no gesture more devastating than the back turning away.

Writing, Im convinced, should be a subversive activity - frowned on by the authorities - and not one cooed over and praised beyond common sense by some teacher.

I'm not a politician. I only want to help relieve the suffering in communities, and I want to help people see their community in each other.

Everyone's goal is to be happy. Happiness is achieved by promoting happiness to others.

...Let's get to the image as quickly as possible, let's get to the message even faster, and let's find the scale to knock you over the head with the image and the message.

You will be a great entrepreneur if you operate with a real sincere wanting to serve.

No matter what you're doing, try to work at that task like it's your dream job.

Money doesn't make u happy .. But happy makes you money.

Judgment of the people in the situation is not helpful. How can you help them is the question.

The world belongs to the people who say, 'I can'.

I don't apologize for my diamonds, Rolls-Royce, Range Rover, or anything. Look, Queen Elizabeth has more diamonds than me. Why don't people attack her for it?

Art allows people a way to dream their way out of their struggle.

If you learn late, you pass it on to people so they can learn early. It's a step process.

People should know whatever it is you love to do. I am a living testament to the fact that you can do it. You can do whatever it is you put your mind to and you can do it in stilettos.

I always say neediness is the cause of suffering. I'm not the only one who says it. It's something I adopted and I believe.

I think I know it all, relatively speaking.

No lifetime is long enough for those ... who simply wish to understand themselves and their lives. It is, perhaps, the curse of being human, but also a blessing.

When you're a good giver you're a good getter.

Quit taking, start giving.

Service is the key to everything in life.

If there is a true religion in the universe, it must include the truth of contact or be forever hollow.

Fate and victory shift ... now this way, now that way -- like a line of unarmored men under a hail of enemy arrows.

I like to move towards a place where my greatest experience is promoting happiness for others. I know that that creates a cycle of the same great experience.

If I hadn't gone to dancing school, I would have married and had children like my mum and had a normal life.

You need to eat, but you don't really need to eat filet mignon every night or buy bottles of champagne at a thousand a pop.

If you're a man in your twenties or thirties, and you have yet to make your fortune, I would urge you not to get married.

When you're busy doing your own stuff it's like running a race. You try not to look over your shoulder to see who else is in the race, you do the best you can.

Despite what your girlfriend may have told you, size is important, bigger is better.

Gene Simmons planned on being a success the moment he launched himself out of his mother's womb.

I think it's pathetic that women and men treat each other worse than we treat our pets. It's love or hate.

There is nothing that I would do ever to break my mother's heart.

Fiscally, I'm very conservative. I don't believe in welfare states. I believe in giving people jobs.

I'm from Israel, so America has no limits. I started a record label, and then I started managing other artists, like Liza Minelli.

Get rid of the friends who want you to spend your whole day doing nothing with them. They're not your friends. They're your enemies.

Science isn't about WHY, it's about WHY NOT!

If you're lucky, you don't think in a straight line.

To be in a band on the road is to have anything and everything you want just by picking up the phone.

Don't believe bands who say it's all about the fans and they want to give their music away for free. The result is they will continue to live in their mother's basement.

You can't rely on anything. At the end of the day, all you have is yourself.

People are only what we believe them to be.

Anyone whose mission is keeping people apart is swimming against a very strong tide.

In fact it is essential that we strengthen efforts to learn from each other, and stop considering public health in the third world and in the U.S. as separate intellectual and practical endeavors.

Without aspirations for a better existence, you're stuck in the mud and going nowhere.

Those who need nothing attract everything.

Get your hustle on... Hard work is easy, working out is hard.

It's terrible, the way obese children and adults are treated in this country [USA]. And I'm not leaving this Earth until that is changed.