Jim Parsons Quotes

I think intelligence is usually sexy until it becomes irritating. After that, you're stuck.

Coffee is to wake up, coffee is to work with, coffee is to live with, coffee is life

Someone else's success is not your failure.

Home is where you feel unjudged, and where what I do isn't necessarily stupid or wrong.

What this is about is hopefully an opportunity for me to help pave the way for my future in terms of getting financially choosier. You have to plan the windfall as if it'll be your only one.

Well, I'm a big believer in 'never say never.

I think in any form of acting, you're always well served if you've done theater.

I was very fascinated with meteorology at a young age. I lived on the Gulf Coast and hurricanes blew through there. That is the class I failed in college: meteorology.

I want to drive! I love to drive! I drive at home in Barbados.

My Emmy competition is awfully good. My stomach is already in knots. The problem is that I don't drink, so I can't calm myself that way. I wish I could be better at pretending I don't care.

As a human being, you know that there are some days when you'd rather not talk to anybody - but I can't really do that anymore without appearing rude.

I try to master every facet of a character in order to build a safety net for myself, so I can go on to take more risks to create someone really distinct.

I had a very strong interest in music, specifically the piano from a very small age.

I'm not crazy. My mother had me tested!

I did have a Twitter account that I tried for a couple days, but found I had nothing to say. There are some interesting facts I could share, but I don't want to share that part of myself.

I've grown out of dancing in my car - is it sad? Or I've just become a better driver!

To have a job you can count on as an actor is so rare, whether that means belonging to a regional theater company or being on TV.

Every time I think about writing, comedy doesn't interest me in the slightest. I can play comedy, but I don't think in terms of comic dialogue.

It's a shame, but every time I get something scientific in the script, I read up to find out what I'm talking about - but then I'm on to the next script and it's forgotten.

There's no audience to wonderfully get in your way when you're doing a single-camera anything, whether it's a sitcom or drama or film. And I do mean that in the best way.

It was just wet, not stinky?

If I ever wrote a script myself, it would be strongly emotional material.

I don't think the jet-setting life is really for most people.

When I first started out in Houston, it was theater or bust. And I loved it. I still love it. And then I went to undergraduate and graduate school for acting.

I love seeing tennis up close.

In L.A., I have more of a yard existence, and so I enjoy walking my two little dogs in New York - one's a Maltese and the other's a Shih Tzu.

The Big Bang Theory' has completely changed my life.

I'm also a big American Idol fan. I think it's just great fun.

I was a very shy child.

I've always loved TV very much, and as a child I was so religious with it, but now it's more when it fits in.

You learn a lot as a kid, like you don't know anything. I didn't know what was gonna happen if I opened the door. I thought I was gonna be in another world somehow.

I feel like the universe is so big it'd be foolish to pull out the "no" for it.

You just have to speak up. You just have to say, 'I would like to do this, ' and it's amazing what people who listen can do for you.

Theatre was my first love. I can't take the theatre out of me. And I wouldn't want to. To me, it's home.