In a recent interview, Jim Parsons revealed that he paid a high price for fame and felt extremely stressed and unhappy at the height of the success of “The Big Bang Theory”.
Parsons, who became known worldwide for playing the iconic and eccentric physicist Sheldon Cooper in the sitcom created by Chuck Lorre and Bill Prady, said during an appearance on the podcast “All Out with Jon Dean” that he paid a very high personal price for fame.
“Looking back now, I realize that during some of the best moments of my life, I was unhappy in many ways,” he said. “I wasn’t happy. I was stressed.”
According to the 53-year-old actor, his pursuit of perfection, while contributing to his success, also placed an enormous burden on him, and the constant pressure he was putting on himself was not worth the emotional toll he was experiencing.
“I felt like I had to keep a lot of plates spinning and that the success and the good things happening in my life were only the result of all that overwork… that discipline and everything else,” he reflected. “And maybe, to some extent, that was true. I don’t know.”
“But I wouldn’t do it again for any amount of money… simply because it was stressful and miserable at times. I was making myself suffer.”
For Parsons, his obsessive discipline did more harm than good. “Yes, I was disciplined. Yes, I had a good work ethic, but a lot of that came from a kind of OCD,” he observed.
“I basically had a list of things in my head that I needed to do in order to feel comfortable and know that I would be able to do my job properly, which I don’t think was actually true,” he concluded.
Parsons is currently appearing in the parody musical “Titanique”, an Off-Broadway production, and has already said that he has no plans to return for a sequel to “The Big Bang Theory”.
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