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" 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. "
Simon Helberg
Own
Trying
Myself
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" I walked into the wrong examination room. I'm bad enough at facial recognition... I saw more that day than I cared to. Fortunately, I didn't recognize her from that angle, whoever it was, and I didn't ask. I'm off to a rocky start on the road to fatherhood, but I got a free view. "
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Road
Free
" I certainly think, obviously, rhythm is a huge part of being an actor. It just is unconscious, to a degree, but particularly in comedy, rhythm is pretty essential, and there's probably something more physiological going on. "
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" I would say Mick Jagger plus Mr. Furley equals Howard Wolowitz. "
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" 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. "
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Career
Actor
" Working with the Coens was a dream come true. "
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Working
True
Dream
" I grew up surrounded by sketch comedy. "
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Up
Surrounded
Grew
" I'm obviously more known for being on television, and that's where most people see me. "
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Television
Me
More
" I'm interested in character and people and motivations and things like that. "
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Like
People
" I've learned over time that human beings tend to want to do more than they have the courage to do or that the social contract will allow them to do. "
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Over
Courage
Will
" Actually, 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. People would ask me if I was his son, because I looked like him at that point, so I do remember feeling some connection and just wanting to say, like, 'Papa!' "
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People
Believe
Feeling
" In America, the first thing people say is, 'What do you do?' "
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People Say
America
Say
" I grew up around the business quite a bit; I saw a little bit of the underbelly of it. "
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Up
Saw
Business
" I enjoy spending my spare time with my wife, our cat, and our bird. "
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Our
Enjoy
Cat
" Stephen Frears is brilliant and has made movies that inspired me for my whole life. "
Simon Helberg
Me
Movies
Life
" 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. "
Simon Helberg
Live
Saturday
Night
" As a piano player, if 10 is concert level, I'd put myself at a 5 or a 6, but in a completely different genre than classical or opera. In terms of classical and opera, playing accompaniment, I'd say I was a 3. "
Simon Helberg
Piano
Myself
Different
" Getting to know where we come from is a really profound way of getting to look at who we are. "
Simon Helberg
Come
Know
Look
" It's not the coolest thing in the world to be walking around humming the Taylor Swift song. It's not as cool to be singing along with the number one song in the country as it is to be the jaded, indifferent hipster who wants to turn you on to something that nobody else is talking about. "
Simon Helberg
World
Walking
Song
" 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. "
Simon Helberg
People
Character
Day
" I generally don't feel the need to do more research than is necessary to play the part for me, to inform me. "
Simon Helberg
Me
Feel
More
" I'd say I'm really, really good for a 16-year-old, which is where I peaked. I'm impressive, but not classically trained, not a concert pianist. "
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Impressive
Good
Concert
" As an actor, you always want to root for your characters. "
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Your
You
Want
" Everyone feels at times like they're missing a page or two out of the handbook that tells you how to live your life. "
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Life
Everyone
Live
" I watched a lot of 'I Love Lucy.' Then I went to college, and I didn't watch TV, really. I don't know: something happened after 'Friends' went off the air. I think something dipped in the whole sitcom world. "
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College
Friends
Love
" Things are loud in a Jewish household. Conversations are up here; they're pitched pretty high. That's just the way we talk. "
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Loud
Here
High
" I do have sometimes a difficult time watching myself. "
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Sometimes
Myself
Time
" There are those moments where you realize that your parents or your heroes are human and are fallible. "
Simon Helberg
Heroes
Moments
Realize
" My whole life revolved around TV as a kid. I would come home and make sure I finished my homework every night by 8 o'clock, generally so that I could sit down and watch TV from 8 to 10. As a kid, it was 'Family Ties' and 'Roseanne' and 'Growing Pains' and 'Perfect Strangers' and 'Golden Girls.' I mean, I watched everything. "
Simon Helberg
Down
Family
Life
" Playing piano well is one thing, but attempting to play at concert level accompanying Meryl Streep while Stephen Frears is filming you in front of hundreds of people is - well - psychotic. "
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You
People
Well
" I'm deeply insecure. I ask my wife all the time, 'Was that OK? Are people lying?' I'm not as happily oblivious as I'd like. "
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Wife
Time
People