Simon Baker Quotes
I don't like the idea of talking down to kids. I think I was talked down to, and you rebel against that.

Quotes to Explore
-
You're creating new things in movies and people are going to steal them.
-
Everybody talks. Anthony Pettis talked before the fight. Donald Cerrone talked before the fight. See what happened?
-
I don't drink hot beverages.
-
I hate being asked how I met my husband and very personal questions like that. I don't like that. People are too nosey. Intelligent questions I like, but sometimes people ask such silly, dopey ones.
-
My mother, as a girl, had remembered this woman from Maine, someone who was part of the extended family somehow, and I recall her talking about this great, risk-taking woman. There are the most amazing, heroic stories in everybody's lives.
-
The Nobel Peace Prize has always been a joke - albeit a grim one. Alfred Bernhard Nobel famously invented dynamite and felt sorry about it.
-
Sitting at the table doesn't make you a diner. You must be eating some of what's on that plate. Being here in America doesn't make you an American. Being born here in America doesn't make you an American.
-
I'm sure that I don't know everything I want to know. I have so much more to learn.
-
I always knew I wanted to be a technologist, so I went to Duke and got a degree in computer science and electrical engineering. Really, I thought my goal in life was to be an inventor, a problem solver, so I thought I needed a Ph.D. to be good at inventions, but it turns out that you don't.
-
I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is through my books.
-
There are a lot of studies about small businesses and how they make a difference in their community and create a lot of jobs and values. So we need to focus on small businesses or entrepreneurs who want to start manufacturing or making things.
-
The whole edifice of modern physics is built up on the fundamental hypothesis of the atomic or molecular constitution of matter.
-
I don't know that I could play a complete and total mess. After awhile, I think I would be like, 'No, none of that!'
-
He who is completely sanctified, or cleansed from all sin, and dies in this state, is fit for glory.
-
I really only worked for about a month on 'Meatballs.' What happened was that Ivan Reitman figured out that studios wanted to meet everybody involved with 'Animal House' except the producer. So he thought he'd better start directing.
-
What we discovered, counter-intuitively, is that when you start killing a cancer cell, one of the things it does in order to survive is to spread even further. It causes itself to form new blood vessels. We've termed this 'reactionary angiogenesis.'
-
Good manners sometimes means simply putting up with other people's bad manners.
-
My opinion on who's wrong or who's right has nothing to do with the fact that we have to bring together people who are against each other, to transform antagonism into cooperation.
-
If a scene is three pages long, quite often people break it up and do a page, say 'cut' then move on to the next bit, they do it in cuts. I don't really like doing that; I like to go through it all in one organic run, then give notes afterward. A little bit more like theater.
-
After the horse dance was over, it seemed that I was above the ground and did not touch it when I walked.
-
Knowledge is power. Unfortunate dupes of this saying will keep on creating, ambitiously, till they have stunned their native initiative and made their thoughts weak.
-
I don't like the idea of talking down to kids. I think I was talked down to, and you rebel against that.