Quotes from Simon Helberg

Getting to know where we come from is a really profound way of getting to look at who we are.

I really like 'Project Runway.' I know it's reality, so that might be kind of faux pas for me to say.

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.

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.

I enjoy spending my spare time with my wife, our cat, and our bird.

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.

When you see someone putting themselves out there, particularly when you see someone is failing and failing so passionately, it brings up this bittersweet connection to our mortality.

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

I grew up around the business quite a bit; I saw a little bit of the underbelly of it.

I actually didn't finish NYU. I would have, but I was lucky enough to get my foot in the door before I graduated.

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

Things are loud in a Jewish household. Conversations are up here; they're pitched pretty high. That's just the way we talk.

I generally don't feel the need to do more research than is necessary to play the part for me, to inform me.

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.

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.

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.

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

I wouldn't wear turtlenecks. That I'm not envious of. But who knows? I might sneak out a few things and hope and pray that no one says, 'Hey, didn't you wear that when you were playing an enormous geek on TV?'

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 came in ["MADtv"] kind of late in the season. Some of the producers didn't want me but the network did. It was all (messed up) from the beginning.

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.

I thought it was going to be a hut in Topanga and Janis Joplin was going to come out, but it's a real doctor... I went to Beverly Hills to meet this midwife; you'd think they'd be in nature.

There's also these moments when you're like, oh, I really want to do different things. Not instead of this show [The Big Bang Theory]. It's just a hunger to do something else, too.

I'm interested in character and people and motivations and things like that.