Quotes from Timothy Simons

We live in a world in which whatever you do has a parody account online in moments.

Keeping children alive and free of disease is not a political issue and cannot be put into a partisan box.

I'm very much in favor of vaccinations, and I've been very vocal about that because it's insane to forgo this.

If you didn't watch 'The Shield,' you should stop everything you are doing and go back and watch 'The Shield.'

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.

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.

The Duplass brothers do that so well - that very simple, very horrifically awkward comedy.

I'm a dog person, but I don't have a pet.

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.

When I was a carpenter, I built sets for small storefront Chicago companies. Like, I built sets for friends of mine at The House Theater.

David Letterman was my guy growing up. My parents recorded the tenth anniversary special for me, and I watched it 40 times.

My dad was a photographer, so we had all these studio portraits of us.

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.

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.

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.

There is a part of me that really just thinks it would be so funny to see the 'Veep' characters in 'Game of Thrones.'

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.

Reed Scott is really good at coming up with insults.

After school, I was planning to jump from regional theater to regional theater.

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.

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.

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.

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.

My dad's a photographer, and my sister is a writer and a poet. My little brother is a mandolin player - he's a bluegrass musician. It's always been a part of the family.