Simon Helberg (Simon Maxwell Helberg) Quotes
I don't think Hollywood respects multi-camera television. Well, I don't think they disrespect it, but I don't think it gets respect for its artistry.
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The ocean-bordered southern part of California has always been a place of Hollywood make-believe, casual opulence, suntans and jewelry.
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I realise how important it is to use the time I have. I respect people who want to do that by watching television. I happen to want to read books. But I know I can't read all the books or watch all the movies in one lifetime.
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HBO and I have a deal to at least try to make a television series from the Leonid McGill stories. We're going to start with the first novel, 'The Long Fall.'
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I think the amazing thing about 'Twin Peaks' was that it completely changed television from that point forward.
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I think three or four years ago, people would have said my biggest weakness was that sometimes I was awkward on television, with my stammer, but I think they'd say that much less now.
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I was obsessed with Hollywood from the time I was a kid. I always knew I wanted to live in Los Angeles.
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For U.S. television series, I really like 'Dexter.'
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Broadcasting began, essentially, in the hands of very, very few players - actually two - and when television came along, there were two networks, then three. Rules began to get formulated that essentially protected that concentrated group.
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Television is fun, but it's hard, and if it gets too crazy I may just do it as a part-time thing.
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Everybody asks me what it was like to be in my underwear for my network television debut.
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In Hollywood I thought I was large and klutzy, like the characters I played.
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It sounds so dramatic, but I'll say it: Hollywood just doesn't know what to do with me. And it's not for lack of trying.
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I started to do theater when I was a little boy at school, and then, I think because my father was a documentary filmmaker and worked for German television, I was of course fascinated by what he did. Then when I was around 15, I did my first movie.
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I've never understood the cult of Hitchcock. Particularly the late American movies... Egotism and laziness. And they're all lit like television shows.
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I grew up in Hollywood but not in any rich neighborhood.
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It's the greatest achievement I've ever witnessed in all my years of being a coach and a television personality. I really, absolutely have been blown away.
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Theater is still a medium which attracts young writers. You'd think that it would be all over by now, with television and film. But it's not.
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The greatest influence came from the television and the proliferation of magazines that included contents on pop groups. I believe that at the end of the 1970s, like is happening now, pop and rock were practically separated in the eyes of the public and critics, who considered the first more frivolous and easy and the second more serious and prestigious.
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Television ... the new gladiatorial arena.
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For me, it's important to build good partnerships rather than score centuries. Once, you have those partnerships, you will also get centuries.
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Im much happier talking with people than I am flirting with them.
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When public men indulge themselves in abuse, when they deny others a fair trial, when they resort to innuendo and insinuation, to libel, scandal, and suspicion, then our democratic society is outraged, and democracy is baffled.
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I admire James Franco. I admire somebody like Jack Nicholson. Anyone who just does movies for the sake of making movies and takes big risks.
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I don't think Hollywood respects multi-camera television. Well, I don't think they disrespect it, but I don't think it gets respect for its artistry.
