Simon Helberg (Simon Maxwell Helberg) Quotes
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.
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I've made up little mantras for myself, catchphrases from a screenwriting book that doesn't exist. One is 'Write the movie you'd pay to go see.' Another is 'Never let a character tell me something that the camera can show me.'
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Whatever you want to do in the industry, do it on the smallest level at first. If you want to be a writer, write a screenplay in your house. If you want to be an actor, put on a one-man show. If you want to be a stand-up comedian, go to an open mic.
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The research I have been doing - studying how foodstuffs yield energy in living cells - does not lead to the kind of knowledge that can be expected to give immediate practical benefits to mankind. If I have chosen this field of study, it was because I believed in its importance in spite of its theoretical character.
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But 18 years after the passage of the Civil Liberties Act, there still remains unfinished work to completely rectify and close this regrettable chapter in our Nation's history.
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I have done theatre, and I enjoy the process of smaller films a lot more. When I do such films, there are certain things which I get to do which are untapped. The scenes give me the liberty to play and mould the character in accordance to the director's mindset.
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You can always tell an actor by the bored look in their eye whenever someone else is talking.
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I started tapping and I was okay. Then after about two years my feet knew what they were doing!
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Character is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work.
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I have learned a great deal in my life, and DeMolay helped me to learn that character and integrity should be cornerstones in your life. As a Senior DeMolay, as a father, the best advice I could ever give would be to take the high road in life, and you will be able to build trusting relationships.
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To me the interesting main character is never the one without flaws.
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When I'm creating a character, I don't see it so much as playing someone else as just playing a specific part of myself under certain circumstances.
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Stationery gets me excited because it has an individual character, unlike computers, which may be convenient but are generic and bland.
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There is no need to do any housework at all. After the first four years the dirt doesn't get any worse.
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My character should not be ordinary, cliched, and if I feel that it's difficult to do this character, I take up that challenge to get into his character.
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Well, when I was very young, maybe 12 years, I began to make investments.
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If you're only making an album every 10 years, it better be good.
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All my friends were going off to be professionals, and I said I wanted to be an actor.
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Vanity was the beginning and the end of Sir Walter Elliot's character; vanity of person and of situation.
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Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion.
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Rock & roll has kept us alive for all these years. But we just love country music. It's in our blood.
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No matter what type of equipment you have, you still have to have a certain talent to be able to make a good record.
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Truth is, I think, if God just gave us our daily bread, many of us would be angry. 'That's all you're going to give me? You're just going to give me enough to sustain me for today? What about tomorrow or next year or 10, 20, 30 years from now? I want to know that I'm set up.' And yet Jesus says just pray for your daily provisions.
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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.
