Timothy Simons Quotes

Given the choice between someone saying I was handsome in a role or ugly but good, I know which I'd choose.

A happy player is a good player, I think.

After doing comedy for a while and knowing how hard it is to do physical comedy right, I learned how incredibly talented the Three Stooges really were after re-watching old episodes. They still stand up!

It is hard enough to be good at all, but to be good in comedy speaks for your character.

Nobody can give a good performance unless the authors and composers have written a good part, a fact which is often overlooked.

If you're improvising with Paul Reiser, man, you'd better hold on tight!

The only thing you owe the public is a good performance.

Ninety percent of a good performance of an actor is based on the material. If you've got the material there, you can ride it.

I just like doing standup, that's all I'm interested in or good at.

What's interesting to me is the fact that creatively, I can do anything now and people will pay attention, and if I suck, hopefully they will stop paying attention very quickly, but if I'm good, then I have my foot in the door, and people have paid attention, and I did a good job, and people are like, 'Oh, wow!'

My favorite actor is Sir Ben Kingsley - nobody is as good as him, in my opinion. I think he's so good as an artist.

If you're a good singer, you're going to make anything sound good.

They improve greatly, and sometimes I go and see the performances they do and I am consciously aware that there isn't enough work for the good dancers.

Adam Sandler is truly brilliant. He plays these goofy characters, but he is a brilliant fellow.

To do comedy, you have to be a pretty good actor to start with.

It takes a while to realize that just because you're a stand-up comedian and you do comedy, you're not going to be good at all comedy.

Chris Addison is a stand-up comic, but his ability to act is extraordinary, to be so natural, I've taken 25 years just getting to that level.

I think Nat's an amazing actor... He understands things about acting that most people don't.

Developing aesthetic sense is vital for actors. They must understand that there is no small role, only small actors. A good actor will do the smallest role to perfection, and be recognised.

Instead of signing 10 films a year, I'd rather do a couple of films where I can give my best performance and am appreciated by audiences.

If you are a good actor, then all you have to do is give your best shot every time when you are in front of the camera regardless of who else is around you.

Some nights you walk off stage and go 'That was a good crowd.'

A lot of artists fail when they try to act, and they flop. So when I get into acting, it's going to be to do it well, something good, something of quality. I want people to say, 'Wow, that movie' - or that show or whatever - 'turned out really well.'

I think Bob Odenkirk is phenomenal.

When you are in a good frame of mind then the performance is going to be better.