The best Quotes by J. K. Simmons

People evolve and it's important to not stop evolving just because you've reached 'adulthood.'

I actually have a degree in music and was aware that music was a tool used in therapy. I didn't realize how far it had come since I was in college in the mid-seventies.

I'm not a fan of any genre but am a fan of movies that are intelligent and/or funny. That goes across all genres: a horror movie, a zombie movie, alien invaders, chick flick, or raunchy comedy. If it's well done, I'm a fan.

I never listened to the Grateful Dead as a teen; the only exposure I got was what came through the walls when my sister was listening to them.

I like to act. Every other aspect of show business I find uninteresting.

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I was there to push people beyond what's expected of them. I believe that's an absolute necessity.

Terence Fletcher in Whiplash

Either you're deliberately out of tune and sabotaging my band, or you don't know you're out of tune, which, I'm afraid, is even worse.

Terence Fletcher in Whiplash

Neiman, you earned the part. Alternates, will you clean the blood off my drum set?

Terence Fletcher in Whiplash

Listen, the key is to just relax. Don't worry about the numbers. Don't worry about what the other guys are thinking. You're here for a reason.

Terence Fletcher in Whiplash

There are no two words in the English language more harmful than "good job".

Terence Fletcher in Whiplash

Six years ago, I came across a kid in a practice room, working on his scales. He was early second year and he'd started at Shaffer with a lot of hope. Like all you guys. But the truth was that he barely squeaked in to begin with and, uh... he was really struggling. The faculty were all telling him, "Maybe this isn't for you." But they didn't see what I saw. This scared, skinny kid, cursing himself because he couldn't get his scales right. I saw a drive in him. And I put him in Studio Band. And when he graduated, Marsalis made him third trumpet at Lincoln Center. A year later, he was first. That's who you're listening to now. His name was Sean Casey.

Terence Fletcher in Whiplash

That's L.A. They worship everything and they value nothing.

Sebastian Wilder in La La Land

Los Angeles

Jazz is conflict and it's compromise, and it's new every time. It's brand new every night. It's very, very exciting. And it's dying. It's dying on the vine. And the world says, "Let it die. It had its time." Well, not on my watch!

Sebastian Wilder in La La Land

Jazz

How are you gonna be a revolutionary if you're such a traditionalist? You hold onto the past, but jazz is about the future.

Keith in La La Land

Jazz

I'm letting life hit me until it gets tired. Then I'll hit back. It's a classic rope-a-dope.

Sebastian Wilder in La La Land

People love what other people are passionate about.

Mia Dolan in La La Land

Mia: "I'm always gonna love you."
Sebastian: "I'm always gonna love you, too."

La La Land

Here's to the ones who dream
Foolish as they may seem
Here's to the hearts that ache
Here's to the mess we make

Mia Dolan in La La Land - The Fools Who Dream

Mia: "Should have been a lawyer."
Sebastian: "'Cause the world needs more lawyers?"

Sebastian Wilder in La La Land

Sebastian: "I thought in this town it worked on a sort of 'one for you, one for me' basis type system. How about two for you, one for me?"
Sebastian: "How about all for you and none for me?"
Bill: "That's perfect, yes."
Sebastian: "Okay, a mutual decision then."
Bill: "Right, made by me."

Bill in La La Land

Bill: "You're fired."
Sebastian: "It's Christmas!"
Bill: "Yeah, I see the decorations. Good luck in the New Year."

Bill in La La Land

You could just write your own roles, you know, write something that's interesting as you are.

Sebastian Wilder in La La Land

You can leave Detroit, but it will never leave you.

Detroit

There's cities that get by on their good looks. Detroit has to work for a living.

Detroit

Detroit turned out to be heaven, but it also turned out to be hell.

Marvin Gaye

Detroit

Detroit, the heart of the country... I grew up on 10 Mile, 2 miles better than 8 Mile.

Kristen Bell

8 Mile Detroit

I come from Detroit where it's rough and I'm not a smooth talker.

Eminem

Detroit

For the soul, laughing is what oxygen is for the lungs.

Louis de Funès

Laughing & Smile

It's not about the absence of fear. It's overcoming it.

Emma Watson

Fear

If there hadn't been women we'd still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends.

Orson Welles

Men & Women

My philosophy is: It's none of my business what people say of me and think of me.

Anthony Hopkins

Self-Confidence Gossip & Rumors

My father always said, "Never trust anyone whose TV is bigger than their book shelf" - so I make sure I read.

Emilia Clarke

Books Reading

We think too much and feel too little.

Charlie Chaplin

Thinking Feelings & Emotions

If one does not attach himself to people and desires, never shall his heart be broken. But then, does he ever truly live?

Jackie Chan

Life Desire

One should judge a man mainly from his depravities. Virtues can be faked. Depravities are real.

Klaus Kinski

Failures & Mistakes

I'm much more proud of being a father than being an actor.

Bruce Willis

I dream of a day where I walk down the street and hear people talk about Morality, Sustainibility and Philoshophy instead of the Kardashians.

Keanu Reeves

The Kardashians

It's easy to fool the eye but it's hard to fool the heart.

Al Pacino

Heart Eyes

I never thought I'd see in my life a black candidate running for President.

Samuel L. Jackson

Barack Obama 2008

You can close your eyes to the things you do not want to see. But you cannot close your heart to the things you do not want to feel.

Johnny Depp

Heart Feelings & Emotions Seeing

I'm a doer, and whether it was the tsunami in Sri Lanka or the earthquake in Indonesia, I was always saying, "I should be there; I should be helping out."

Paul Walker

Indonesia Helping

If I love you, I show you I love you every day. Little things, big things.

Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson

Love declerations

Some a-hole leaks it online and I'm like, you know, looking at the guy in the mirror brushing my teeth, "Dude, what have you done? This could be punishable by law!" But the internet forced the studio to say, "We're gonna make this movie", and 24 hours later, that movie had a green light.

Ryan Reynolds - September 2025

Deadpool

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