Top 18 Jimmi Simpson Quotes

I think ‘Westworld’ and ‘Hap and Leonard’ are two of the greatest things that you can do with this oversized pool of the television medium.

I’m one of the most chill people I know.

I think you have to kind of feel like you’re pretty handsome and cool to be able to step into an audition for some kind of lead hero, and that’s just not how I look.

It’s an old-fashioned, very outdated, non-functioning idea that we can drain all the resources from directly around us and skyrocket to the top of a skyscraper, and that’s success. We have to understand that when one has to leech from others to that degree, then that’s something we need to watch and stop.

I swear to God, my career is like this weird origami thing.

I have a couple screenplays that are done, and I’m looking for the right people to help me make them. I do a lot of television writing to develop new ideas for shows.

As far as creating my own theme park, it would probably just have to do with things I like, like my dog and other people’s dogs, and lots of dogs and cats.

I’m very much a glass-is-half-full guy.

I think a well-fit T-shirt and jeans can just kill, style-wise. At least, that’s what I tell myself, because that’s what I’m going to keep wearing till I die.

I live in Los Angeles where there is not that much in the way of theatre, so the La Jolla Playhouse is pretty much the only place that is on my radar, and when they have something going on, and I am available, I will certainly go in.

Pretty much, I am always open to input from everyone; although I don’t require it, the feedback is conducive to getting the play together.

There are a lot of pros to doing a film, as far as it helping your film career, and it is completely different financially. But theatre is the only place where you get to actually be the character, and nobody is going to come around and change it later.

I pretty much got into theatre to do community theatre and things, but then I went to Williamstown and found an agent. I then went to New York and did a lot of theatre there, so I started doing only theatre.

I think everybody does go in expecting they’re making ‘Gone With The Wind’ on their first movie. But you know, that’s just not going to be the case, everybody. Hold onto your hat. Buckle in. It’s probably going to take a few.

I think that human beings, even the ones who are sometimes hurting you, are often very, very confused at their center.

I’m really interested in the current tech world because of my brother Michael. Since we were little kids, in the 1970s, he was dealing with the first computers. He works for the government.

We all don’t feel like a million bucks, even if you’re an actor. You just don’t; not all of us feel like movie stars.

Maybe it’s my freak flag that, when I go to a haunted mansion, I would rather blend in with them and be part of the story rather than have someone jump out at me. To be part of the fantasy seems way more interesting to me, to embed myself in there and just drop in, in that way.