J. K. Simmons Quotes

I can't imagine, as a human being, not being able to grow.

What a man can be, he must be. This need we call self-actualization.

Culture is the process by which a person becomes all that they were created capable of being.

I keep pushing buttons and trying to grow as a person and as a filmmaker.

We must make the choices that enable us to fulfill the deepest capacities of our real selves.

I want, by understanding myself, to understand others. I want to be all that I am capable of becoming.

Life is the most versatile thing under the sun; and in the pursuit of life and character the author who works in a groove works in blinkers.

Ever since I was a child I have had this instinctive urge for expansion and growth. To me, the function and duty of a quality human being is the sincere and honest development of one's potential.

I began working quite young, writing, growing, maturing, always striving to top myself - to make people laugh hard at things they know and believe deep in their hearts to be true.

I'll never be August Wilson - but what I can be is more of myself.

I think that we all have within us the potential for almost anything. If we play close attention to our lives, then we can get at it somehow.

To me that's what Jobs was about. He said at the end of the movie, 'When you realize that the world was created by people no smarter than you, your life will change.' That, to me, is a message for right now and people figuring out what they're going to do with themselves.

To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.

I'm always consciously trying to make what I feel is missing.

If you don't feel you're reaching something new, then don't do it.

I invented myself.

I like this idea of becoming fully realised.

I've tested life and I've learned what works for me.

I have had fun being who I became, so to speak.

I believe that men are here to grow themselves into best good that they can be - at least, this is what I want to do.

For me, there's still a lot of room to grow; I'm just happy that I have so much more to give.

People always tell me, 'Reinvent yourself, re-this, re-whatever.' I haven't reinvented myself. It's an honest evolution. I've always been authentic.

Everybody grows in their own way.

I've had an addiction for a long time to the whole business of maximizing one's potential, what I call human activation. The vehicle for actualizing oneself is choice, options, seeking out the proper choices.

There's no reason to change what you are, but if you're not being you, then you need to acknowledge that.