Timothy Simons
Timothy Simons
Timothy Simonsis an American actor best known for his role as Jonah Ryan on the HBO television series Veep, for which he has received two nominations for the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series. He has also had acting roles in the films Inherent Vice and The Interview, both released in 2014...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTV Actor
Date of Birth12 June 1978
CityReadfield, ME
CountryUnited States of America
I think I was a behavior problem, mostly, but in a fun way. I tried to tell jokes. I was the middle kid, so I was always looking for attention and trying to be the one that equalized everything.
If you're going to go to an audition, you don't want to go in trying to force yourself into some archetype that has been thought up by a director and translated by a casting director.
Truthfully, I don't like the binge-watching model. I think that if you give everybody everything all at once, there's very much a law of diminishing returns as far as their enjoyment of them.
Unless you're playing a historical figure, a writer or director can change their minds. And sometimes your job is to make them change their minds - to make them believe that you're the one that can do it.
There is a part of me that really just thinks it would be so funny to see the 'Veep' characters in 'Game of Thrones.'
The truth is, there is no link between vaccines and autism. Vaccines are incredibly important.
The Duplass brothers do that so well - that very simple, very horrifically awkward comedy.
Reed Scott is really good at coming up with insults.
My dad was a photographer, so we had all these studio portraits of us.
My children, twins who are three years old, they're awful creatures right now.
Keeping children alive and free of disease is not a political issue and cannot be put into a partisan box.
It's much harder to get a job if nobody wants you around.
IPods just made music about how many songs you could have on you at all times.
If you didn't watch 'The Shield,' you should stop everything you are doing and go back and watch 'The Shield.'