Jim Parsons : (5) " I love seeing tennis up close. " - 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 " I had a very strong interest in music, specifically the piano from a very small age. " - Jim Parsons " As a human being, you know that there are some days when you’d rather not talk to anybody – but I can’t really do that anymore without appearing rude. " - 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