Simon Helberg Quotes

As actors, we tend to usually have some issues with self-esteem and some need for validation, and it takes awhile for that fear of not having a job to go away.

I own a fart CD. It has, I believe, over 100 fart sounds. A lovely variety, from the up-close and personal to the more experimental and dissonant. Some people prefer to listen to Bach when they go to sleep… not me.

When you see someone putting themselves out there, particularly when you see someone is failing and failing so passionately, it brings up this bittersweet connection to our mortality.

I’m obviously more known for being on television, and that’s where most people see me.

I do have sometimes a difficult time watching myself.

I enjoy spending my spare time with my wife, our cat, and our bird.

Stephen Frears is brilliant and has made movies that inspired me for my whole life.

Getting to know where we come from is a really profound way of getting to look at who we are.

Being an accompanist is very selfless in many ways because you’re really just trying to elevate the singer and help them shine, ultimately.

I have great instincts, like the instincts of a squirrel. You know, like when you’re driving and a squirrel stops in the middle of the road.

When I was young, I believe I met Nicolas Cage. I think I was probably eight, and I remember seeing him at somebody‘s house – it was an event, and he happened to be there.

I’m happy to try on as many characters as I can.

I think in terms of a career trajectory, it’s good for people to be reminded that, in spite of seeing me a million times a day on a show for ten years playing the same character, I’m an actor, and actors like to play different people.

I am fairly physically aware and agile, and I imbue that into the characters I play.

Failing passionately is a success in its own right.

Everyone feels at times like they’re missing a page or two out of the handbook that tells you how to live your life.

I grew up surrounded by sketch comedy.

Until I was about 16 years old, my dream was to be a musician. I played in rock bands and jazz bands. Then I decided to be an actor and kept the stable career of ‘jazz pianist‘ as my safety net.

Personally, I’m not into ‘Star Trek‘ or physics or comic books, but I know I might be in the minority.

There are those moments where you realize that your parents or your heroes are human and are fallible.

Karate probably gave me an incredibly deep awareness of all the parts of me, my flexibility, and the nimble qualities I’m doing, even if they’re unconscious.

I try to act with my whole body and, for better or worse, this is the face that’s attached to it.

I’m married, so I tend not to hit on every girl.

I might love dancing more than I should admit. But not in public.

There’s something very funny about giving a menial task to a genius and watching him find so much complexity and overanalyse it to such a degree that the waitress from Nebraska working at the Cheesecake Factory has passed them all by.

My parents tried to convince me that school won‘t always be there, but auditions will. I said, ‘Really? Are they tearing down NYU?’

There’s a lot of closeted nerds out there.

My mom is a casting director, which is pretty awesome.

I would say Mick Jagger plus Mr. Furley equals Howard Wolowitz.

Working with the Coens was a dream come true.

We’re going to do a natural birth. At first she was like, ‘We should do it at home,’ and I said, ‘Look, either way, when you go into labor, I will be checking into a hospital… so if you want to come along, come along.

I actually struggled through teaching myself to cook because I’m completely ignorant in the kitchen. So I did really macho things like trying to make my own curry. Really hardcore stuff.

I guess I get really obsessive or passionate about things.

I thought it was going to be a hut in Topanga and Janis Joplin was going to come out, but it’s a real doctor… I went to Beverly Hills to meet this midwife; you’d think they’d be in nature.

I love Jerry Lewis. I loved Jim Carrey when I was younger, and Mike Myers and Phil Hartman, all the ‘Saturday Night Live’ people in the late ’80s.