Quotes by Jim Parsons

About Jim Parsons:

James Joseph is an American actor. He is best known for playing Sheldon Cooper in the CBS sitcom The Big Bang Theory, with his performance often cited as a significant reason for the program's success. He has received several awards for his performance, including four Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series and the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Television Series Musical or Comedy.
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I had a very strong interest in music, specifically the piano from a very small age.

Jim Parsons

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.

Jim Parsons

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.

Jim Parsons

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.

Jim Parsons

I've done so much theater, and yet I never had an experience like 'The Normal Heart.' We could feel the reaction of the audience every night. It was visceral.

Jim Parsons

I came from a family in Texas who simply never spoke about money.

Jim Parsons

Being in TV, we get to do it again and again until it's 'right.' There's a part of me that likes the other way, that aspect of theatre where there's no chance to go back.

Jim Parsons

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.

Jim Parsons

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

Jim Parsons

I grew up with two different parakeets - one that lived for five years, and one that lived for 13 years - so I always had a bit of an attraction to birds and it's an oddly good fit to be in a movie about birdwatchers.

Jim Parsons

I couldn't tell you a good, bad or ugly pilot just from reading it, but I can tell you a character I want to play.

Jim Parsons

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

Jim Parsons

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

Jim Parsons

'The Big Bang Theory' has completely changed my life.

Jim Parsons

The theater I got to do informs every move I make as an actor and will for the rest of my life. I can't shake it if I wanted to, but I don't want to.

Jim Parsons

I love seeing tennis up close.

Jim Parsons

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.

Jim Parsons

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.

Jim Parsons

I was very average in the social label scale going through school. I was neither the coolest person in school, nor did I suffer the slings and arrows of being made fun of to such a degree that I couldn't get through the day.

Jim Parsons

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

Jim Parsons

Author Bio

  • NameJim Parsons
  • DescriptionAmerican actor
  • BornMarch 24, 1973
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionActor; Singer; Television Actor
  • AwardsGolden Globe Award For Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical Or Comedy