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Jim Parsons Biography

James Joseph "Jim" Parsons (born March 24, 1973) is an American actor. He is known for playing Sheldon Cooper in the CBS sitcom The Big Bang Theory. 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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It isn't called TV money for nothing. There was a time where I paid my rent by doing theater for years, and I was able to buy groceries and pay my electric bill. I considered myself to be making a living as an actor. This kind of money that we make is a whole other level, of course. But it really is simply the cherry on top of a job and a role that I adore.

Actor, Bills, Groceries, Jobs, Kind, Years

[Voicing a cartoon] feels like going down a mysterious but joyful black hole. Once you relax for 15 or 20 minutes, and really go, "I don't care if I look like an ass," it's really fun to see what happens. You know that nothing is being visually judged.

Black, Care, Down, Fun, Relax, Visually

Someone else's success is not your failure.

Success, Failure

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

Car, Dancing, Driver, Drivers, Grown, Sad

The Big Bang Theory' has completely changed my life.

Bangs, Big, Bigs, Changed, Completely, Theory

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

Barbados, Drive, Home, Love, Want

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.

Actors, Belonging, Company, Count, Jobs, Mean

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

Fan, Fun, Idol, Idols, Thinking

I have this thing. I've always been uncomfortable going to any party where people don't understand why I'm there. One of the best things about partaking in a show like this is, when I show up to events and parties now, they know me. I don't have to hear, 'Oh, you're an actor? Have I seen you in anything?' anymore. I used to have to start listing things off of my resume'. It's really nice not to have to do that anymore.

Events, Nice, Party, People, Thing, Used

It was just wet, not stinky?

Ridiculous, Stinky, Wet

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.

Character, Facet, Order, Risks, Safety

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.

Child, Children, Fits, Religious, Tvs

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.

Dog, New York, Two, Tzu, Walking, York

Realistically, there is a danger, of course, when you're going into someone's living room as the same guy every week. But I don't fear it because, I mean, there's really nothing I can do about it. I can try to combat it through the work, and maybe make sure I don't do Sheldon 2. 0 in any other projects. But it's just really hard for me to find any negative side effects from this experience.

Guy, Mean, Negative, Room, Sheldon, Trying

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.

Cameras, Drama, Mean, Way

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.

Acting, Bust, Houston, Loved, School

I didn't have an imaginary childhood friend, but I did one day imagine somehow tiny green men, and they were only tiny and green because my brother had a ton of toy soldier toys that came on a skateboard plank type of thing, and I just envisioned in this car driving to church with my mom, they were there.

Brother, Imaginary, Men, Mom, Soldier

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

Crazy, Mother, Tested

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

Emotional, Material, Scripts, Strongly, Would Be, Wrote

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.

Forgotten, Next, Scientific, Scripts, Shame, Talking

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