J. K. Simmons Quotes

It's not a bad idea to be single, so I can concentrate on my job.

Choose a field that will supply sufficient remuneration to provide adequately for your companion and your children. I bear testimony that these criteria are very important in choosing your life's work.

I do not organize my private life with an eye to my career.

I guess if you're lucky enough not to have to pay your rent, then you or I take much more seriously the kind of work that I do, what it takes for me to leave two teenagers of my own and six stepchildren and a husband and four grandchildren.

I would recommend, definitely, developing a 'day job' that you like - don't expect to make money writing!

Let me say this: I think men are a full-time job, and I'm young and I already have one job. I'm just focused on my career.

In my first start-up, I didn't get any salary for four years, so I had to move back with my parents.

I'm a practical actor and work keeps me occupied. It takes care of my bills, so there are many reasons for which I work.

I'm not ambitious; it is clear in my choice of work. I am fine doing a few dance shows in a month to run my household and take care of myself.

Big money causes me too much trouble with my ex-wives and the government. All I want is to keep busy and to be comfortable.

Once you stop thinking about the minutiae of what each part might mean for your career, you learn that if you do a good performance, it's going to be good for you. The work is what matters.

Quite honestly, as long as I am working, can enjoy what I do, get on with it, and put bread on the table, I am really happy.

My life goal is to find a nice balance between working for money and working for fulfillment.

I didn't become an actor for the money, so I can't stay with a job for that reason. I did too many years of theater where you just get by from month to month, happily, to make that a priority.

I've been very focused on my career outside of tennis.

It's not easy to have it all. Frankly, you know, you have to give as much to the career that the career requires and, at the same time, you have to give as much to the family as the attention that's required. But it can be done, yes.

We have to make a living and you can't do that playing bluegrass.

I knew that modeling could open doors, and I would be able to travel and forge my own path. Being able to support yourself is amazing, and I think that was one of the things that appealed to me, but I didn't want to be in front of the camera at first.

I love working in Dublin, but when I'm in London, I'm more focused on my career.

Finding that financial independence away from a broken relationship is probably one of the most powerful places a woman can get to.

I think you have lots of actors who would much rather do a wonderful part at the Royal Shakespeare Company, but then you have to take a two-line part in a TV thing to pay the bills.

I was so focused on advancing in my career that I didn't have enough emotional capacity for dating.

I turn down really well-paid shows all over the world because I want to spend more time with my wife and myself.

I am single and enjoying it. My work is keeping me busy.

I have a teaching job that allows me to pay the rent and affords me to, frankly, write the books I want to write.