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" 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. "

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

Simon Helberg

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" 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. "

" 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. "

" Working is a bonus; working on something you love is a bonus, and getting to do it for a long time is the ultimate. "

" 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!' "

" Working with the Coens was a dream come true. "

" 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. "

" 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 play piano, and I was really, really obsessive about playing piano in high school. I don't know if that's nerdy, but I definitely locked myself in the room and was playing jazz. I was 14. I guess that's kind of cool, actually. "

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

Simon Helberg

Movies

Life

" 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. "

" There's a lot of closeted nerds out there. "

" 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 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. "

" As an actor, you always want to root for your characters. "

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

" 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. "

Simon Helberg

Doing

Flexibility

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

Simon Helberg

Mick Jagger

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" Every time we do anything artistic, the way it's perceived is always going to be different from the way that we had intended it to be because it's subjective. "

" I'm happy to try on as many characters as I can. "

" 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. "

" Well, I think that everybody is kind of a nerd at heart. "

" 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. "

" It's hard to convince your agents and managers to do theater, because it's not as financially rewarding and it takes up a lot of time. "

Simon Helberg

Hard

Your

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

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

Simon Helberg

Always

Parents

" 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. "

" In America, the first thing people say is, 'What do you do?' "

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

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