Timothy Simons Quotes

For me when I go in and audition for things, I just let them go as soon as I leave. I can 't take them home with me. That's something that my mom actually taught my sister and me from the time we were kids.

After 'Oz,' I've learned how to check out and not let that stuff get in.

By forgetting the past and by throwing myself into other interests, I forget to worry.

I learned certain exercises to help me cope, to get myself in tip-top mental shape to deal with auditions and rejection.

Acting is a stressful environment to put yourself into, and stress triggers Tourette's, but I think it's partly an outlet because when I'm acting, I'm putting my mind, body, and soul into something, and that's one of the times during the day when I don't tic.

The only practical way yet discovered by the world for curing its ills is to forget about them.

In small letters, someone has written NEVER FORGET on one of the slats. I know it's supposed to be a pledge, but it feels like a curse. Don't we have to forget some of it? Don't we have to forget this feeling? If we don't, how will we live?

life's best balm - Forgetfulness!

I hoped my absence made them happy or at least made them forget that they weren't happy and never will be.

Worry about the things you can control; the rest will either work themselves out, or they'll kill you. Either way, no more worries.

Do what boxers do, sway with the punches. Don't resist. If any of what happens at work gets to you, just let it. You won't be able to shut it out in the long term anyway. Take it bit by bit, release it like a dam, don't let it collect until the wall develops cracks.

To be able to forget means sanity.

Anxiety is an even better teacher than reality, for one can temporarily evade reality by avoiding the distasteful situation; but anxiety is a source of education always present because one carries it within.

You see I usually find myself among strangers because I drift here and there trying to forget the sad things that happened to me.

and if anybody asks me is it easy to forget I'll say it is easily done, you just pick anyone, and pretend that you never have met

Addicts, as a group, generally score far above average o intelligence tests. Why? You tell me. I guess maybe we're smart enough to have figured out how shitty things are and we decide addiction is the only way to deal with it.

Therapy is extremely expensive. Popping bubble wrap is radically cheap.

I do think, half of what we call madness is just some poor slob dealing with pain by a strategy that annoys the people around him.

The neurotic is always half-drowning in anxiety, and always being half-rescued.

It's hard to do things like auditions, because you don't want to put weeks of work into just an audition.

If you're crazy, there's two things you can do to make yourself feel better: One is to get yourself cured. The other is to make everyone you have to deal with crazy.

Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition for our existence.

Heart, we will forget him! You and I, to-night! You may forget the warmth he gave, I will forget the light. When you have done, pray tell me, That I my thoughts may dim; Haste! lest while you’re lagging, I may remember him!

I have to be able to shake my imaginary life from my real life when I walk through the door with my children who immediately need a lot from me. It's actually kind of a relief, especially if it was a dark day on set.

My whole life is about forgetting. It's my most valuable job skill.