Quotes from Jim Parsons

The TV schedule is essentially four or five days to get in touch with the story you're doing that week.

I think in any form of acting, you're always well served if you've done theater.

I'm only human, and therefore, there's a part of me that's waiting for people to say, 'Enough of you!'

When suddenly everybody is guessing, or some even getting close, to the ballpark of what you're earning - well, that's interesting, that everyone knows what you make.

I was very average in the social label scale going through school. I was neither the coolest person in school, nor did I suffer the slings and arrows of being made fun of to such a degree that I couldn't get through the day.

Home is where you feel unjudged, and where what I do isn't necessarily stupid or wrong.

I think intelligence is usually sexy until it becomes irritating. After that, you're stuck.

Coffee is to wake up, coffee is to work with, coffee is to live with, coffee is life

I think intelligence is usually sexy until it becomes irritating. After that, you're stuck.

Oh gravity, thou art a heartless bitch.

I've always loved TV very much, and as a child I was so religious with it, but now it's more when it fits in.

Someone else's success is not your failure.

I came from a family in Texas who simply never spoke about money.

Once, I lived in an apartment with a skylight in the bathroom. Every winter, it would snow through the skyline, but we got a discount because of it.

My favorite sci-fi movie of all time is 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind.'

The Big Bang Theory' has completely changed my life.

I don't think the jet-setting life is really for most people.

I've been a working actor for many years, but it's not always been successful for me. I certainly struggled in the past.

My hiatus timeline is so minimal, there's only a select number of projects that I can go in for.

One of the things I'm always reminded of when I'm back on stage is how much you have to be aware of and in control of. There is no tight shot. There is no 'we're only shoulders-up this time.' No, from the top of your head to your pinky toe, you're telegraphing part of the story the entire time you're up there.

To have a job you can count on as an actor is so rare, whether that means belonging to a regional theater company or being on TV.

The whole time I've been an actor, from early in Houston, my goal has been to work - to keep doing it. I feel at my most satisfied as a human being when I'm working on a role.

As a human being, you know that there are some days when you'd rather not talk to anybody - but I can't really do that anymore without appearing rude.

It's a shame, but every time I get something scientific in the script, I read up to find out what I'm talking about - but then I'm on to the next script and it's forgotten.