J. K. Simmons Quotes

My father was a security guard. I was a security guard.

I kind of did mixed martial arts as a hobby. At the time I was actually wanting to become a police officer as I was working in a hospital as a security job in Michigan. It was something I did in my off time.

Good counter-terrorism is when you have close relationships between the policing and intelligence services.

All of us are hungry to be a part of great stories. There are some fortunate ones who get it early in their career, and there are some, for whom it takes a little while to get to be even considered for a part which could be promising.

I'd never contemplated being in TV and film. But I love working with athletes and talent and shaping great stories.

All I know is that I intend to do films which are different from each other, work with good directors and on great stories so that I get to grow as an actor. That's my only attempt.

We have some of the best intelligence and crime fighting agencies in the world.

I would love to keep directing commercials. I love it so much. I love working with brands and ad agencies and old white men who have been doing this for 60 years.

I am very much open to Bollywood and would love to work in great stories.

The work of the FBI, to put it mildly, is complex and covers just about every threat we face.

WCW had its moment, and that's what it was: it was a moment. And we created some great stories and changed the industry to a large degree.

You have comedians who just do jokes, and they're called comics, not comedians. You have comedians that do bits - a person that has a lot of jokes that have a beginning, a middle and an end, but it's not a real story. And you have someone that does great stories, the one that blends those things together - that person is doing comedy.

Hogan had the same match every night for years, and so did Warrior. They didn't tell great stories, to be honest.

I just want to tell great stories.

I think the Christ-myth stories make great stories, whether it's 'The Matrix' or 'Braveheart,' they all are tapping into some kind of deep myth in our DNA, and by myth I don't necessarily mean false.

If my tale has to revolve around a protagonist and there is action around him, I can only imagine him to be someone from the police or the Army.

There is pressure when you have a very big book like 'Shadow Divers' to follow up with something big. But you can't let that pressure determine what you do. You just look for the best stories, and when you find a great one, you tell it.

My mum was a child minder, but now she fosters. My dad was in the police force, and now he's a private detective.

I have great stories. I am going to write a book.

I want to do movies with great stories. The content should be strong.

I don't know where people got the idea that characters in books are supposed to be likable. Books are not in the business of creating merely likeable characters with whom you can have some simple identification with. Books are in the business of creating great stories that make you're brain go ahhbdgbdmerhbergurhbudgerbudbaaarr.

I'm not saying that we need more stories about people of a certain age, we just need more great stories about people.

All the great story lines are great practical jokes that people fall for over and over again.

I kept imagining these people, just living their daily lives, and then having them suddenly ended in unjust tragedy. When we watch the news, we grieve all of this, but when we go to the movies, we want more of it. Somehow we realize that great stories are told in conflict, but we are unwilling to embrace the potential greatness of the story we are actually in. We think God is unjust, rather than a master storyteller.

I remember thinking about how fun it would be to be a reporter. I had a dream, when I was little, to become a police officer and a crime investigator. It depends on what kind of stories you're reporting, but it's very similar. You're finding out the truth.