smoguntia

Welcome to the 68th Jim Parsons/Sheldon Cooper
Appreciation Thread

JIM QUOTES

• "I'm not necessarily the most typical Texan you're going to meet."

• "Through 'Noises Off' I really felt for the first time ever what it was like to actually talk and listen to somebody on stage, I understood what it truly meant to commit to a role and believe what you were doing and passionately want, passionately need and to go for it.“

• "I find it so hard to judge a script as a whole, I really do, I can't see the forest for the trees. I may know I like it if something is really exceptional or something is really exceptionally bad maybe. Mostly it's only characters. There's either a character in there that speaks to me that I think that I can speak for or there's not.“

• "I thought I had some geeky traits for a long time - I don't think they're geeky, they're sort of old mannish – crosswords, spoonfuls of peanut butter, long walks... And not like long walks on the beach, I just like to walk like an old person towards the park or something. That's not geeky, that's sad."

• "I do think of the scenes and this dialogue very specifically in a musical way. [...] It wasn't the story that grabbed me, though it was lovely. And it wasn't even the characters themselves as far as who made them what they are. When I first saw the audition sides for this show, I really wanted to leap at the opportunity to get to execute this dialogue. And it was all about the rhythms they put in there. I think there is a musicality to any conversation in general. [...] And it's one of the ways in which, as an actor, in this show at least, I know when something is not going right. [...] Because suddenly you can't access the rhythm. And either they're about to rewrite something that's going to make it fall into place...or you've got more days of rehearsal and suddenly you're going to feel it...I frequently say, 'That scene sings like a song.'"

• "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. It affected me very deeply as an actor. I'll never forget, as long as I live, the night New York's State Assembly passed the bill giving gays the right to marry. For this monumental thing to happen while we were doing this play about the inept and unjust ways the AIDS crisis affected the homosexual community... it was the cherry on top of the experience. It really walloped me."

• "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. One of my very early teachers said over and over again: ‘What are you bringing to the party?’ That expression never left me."

• "Just keep doing what your doing and stick to your guns... It's okay to want what you want, in every way, you know? Hell, my career is much more ridiculous than my love life, don't you think? It was much more unlikely."

SHELDON QUOTES

• "I'm from Texas. Need I say more?"

• "I weep for humanity."

• "In the interest of full disclosure, I was once on a bus and had to give mouth-to-mouth resuscitation to an elderly nun who passed out from heat exhaustion. Every year I get a Christmas card from her, signed with far too many X’s and O’s."

• "I have spent my whole life trying to bring order to the universe by carefully planning every moment of every day. But all my efforts, our dinner schedule, my pyjama rotation, my bowel movement spreadsheet.. It’s clear now, I’ve been wasting my time."

WeBuiltThePyramids

TFTNT! Great title!

smoguntia

Jim is at The Talk today

Whimsical Elf

TFTNT, Susanne!! Perfect title.
I hadn't noticed we were so close to a new thread - Jim's kept us busy lately!

Thanks so much for all the links, gifs, etc. from the previous thread.

I was so happy to see a classic mug shot this morning!
Phanta in the last thread was saying about the time he posted - 4.25am his time! It was actually still morning my time. For a moment I thought he was up in the middle of the night, until I remembered we're still only 7 hours ahead because our clocks haven't gone forward yet.

Any BTS from Tuesday, Phanta? Hope you had a wonderful experience at the taping (although I'm not quite sure how you couldn't).

I'm sorry for you guys in Europe who are getting Home dubbed by other actors. I hadn't thought about that. Seems a shame - all this promotion based on the fact that Jim, Rihanna and Steve Martin are in it, and that's not going to apply to certain countries. At least there are plenty of clips online.

Looking forward to Jim's appearance on The Talk coming online. Stupid stream failed and I only saw a bit. Same happened with Ellen last week.

Southblue - thanks for the info about the Ellen interview. Can't find the full thing online, and that link you provided was blocked by my ISP.

BlackWhiteRose

TFTNT!
The title is just perfect!

IsadoraH

Tftnt!

I have never been fan of the talk, but I guess it'll be ok with Jim.

If you still are looking for the whole Ellen show, you can always PM me and I can help you.

smoguntia

And the next interview
'Big Bang Theory' star Jim Parsons talks animated film debut, co-star Rihanna and his hometown | EW.com

Whimsical Elf

Thanks. That was a great interview.

phantagrae

Thanks for posting the link to the audio interview, but I couldn't listen to it. When I clicked on the link the "soundcloud" think wasn't an active link--there was nothing to click on, that I could see.

As for BTS stuff, there were a few flubbed lines, as one might expect. I think each of the guys had something they stumbled over, but I don't think the girls messed up anything. I'm not sure.

One thing that happened--I didn't quite catch the line, but one of the other girls there did. They were shooting in the cafeteria set and in moving the cameras around for a pickup shot, I guess, there was kind of bang as one of the cameras apparently ran into something.
Jim said something like "Crashing cameras into props, see, this is why we have separate unions."

Another thing was that while Jim was pacing around the apartment set, saying his lines to himself and chewing gum, he apparently bit himself--either his tongue or his lip--and I guess he might have been bleeding or was afraid he was. When it happened, he stopped dead in his tracks and kind of gasped (silently) and held his hand over his open mouth. Some of the crew ladies came up and brought him a napkin or tissue and he was dabbing at his mouth for a minute or two. Later on when he and Kaley were waiting to do a retake on a scene they were in, he was telling her about it.

Kunal got hungry during a long wait on a rewrite and at first he was snagging chips from the prop bowl on the coffee table, but then I guess he went and asked someone for something because he disappeared for a moment then went back to sit on set, then a guy came with a paper plate of something and Kunal took it off set and then came back still chewing and looking for a place to throw away his plate and napkin.

I hope I haven't given away any spoilers--if you think anything is too spoilerish, let me know and I'll edit.

ShamyLove

TFTNT Susanne! Perfect title is perfect.

Love the BTS stories Phanta, TY!!

Did he do this when he had his lip booboo??



I'm trying to come up with a funny line about kissing his booboo on his lip, but I'm just too tired, work was nutty this week.

Whimsical Elf

Thanks for the BTS, Phanta! Not too spoilerish for me, but I don't know if others might consider mention of specific sets or characters that have scenes together slight spoilers. I think I was always too paranoid about giving any tiny thing away when mentioning BTS stuff.
I hope Jim's lip/tongue is okay.

About the radio interview - it seems to be working for me. Do you not have a play button in the top left of the pic of Jim and Oh?
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Edit - Jim's episode of The Talk is up! http://www.cbs.com/shows/the_talk/vi...alk-3-27-2015/ (works with unblocker outside US).
And a clip on YT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNqojg7NgYE

ShamyLove

I'm not spoiled and I don't feel like I learned something I shouldn't.

TY for the links Vicky!

smoguntia

Thanks for the link. Watching the Talk now (in other words, I'm jumping from comercials to comercials )

Love it, but would have been fun if, Sarah would have been there

Edit:

He was very talkative, it was interesting to hear him speaking about his OCDs

phantagrae

When I click on the radio interview link, I get a page with a picture of a bunch of Boov, then some wording, then there's a big white box with the "soundcloud" logo in it, but nothing to click on. If there's supposed to be a picture in that box, it's not showing up for me.
It could be blocked here at work. I don't want to use data on my phone while I'm here, so I'll try again tonight when I get home.

And thanks for teh Talk link. I think he was very thoughtful and well-spoken. I was wondering if they were going to ask him about the Get Hard controversy and I think he handled it well. I loved his discussion of tabloid stuff and yes, it was interesting to hear him talking about his schedule and his handwashing.

Boy needs some good moisturizer!

ShamyLove

I love the little shoulder nudge.