Jim Parsons

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

I've been a working actor for many years, but it's not always been successful for me. I certainly struggled in the past.

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.

My choices in projects have all been character or role-based, and on a financial level, it's obvious: as an actor on a TV series, I get a wonderful paycheck, and a consistent paycheck, which doesn't always happen when you're doing theater or movies.

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.

I was a very shy child. I remember being in a kindergarten open house with my mother and children saying 'Hi' to me, and I still remember feeling this way - but I don't know why - but I wouldn't even say 'Hi' back. I was that shy.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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