Simon Helberg Quotes

The film industry is a lovely family and I respect it.

In a work capacity I'm only interested in acting and producing.

As you can tell by my IMDB page, I like to work.

My dad's an actor, and my mum's a casting director and a writer.

I have been working professionally in the entertainment industry since I was six.

I will never stop doing stand-up; that's my career, but I will do movies in Hollywood.

I was totally unknown in the television and film industry in Canada.

I'm a working actress.

Hollywood itself is a little intimidating and exciting. There's definitely a way to go about approaching it.

Usually, when you're an actress, you have to audition 20 times.

When I moved out to L.A., I went on 156 auditions before I booked a single thing.

You don't meet too many actors in Nashville.

It never dawned on me I would do anything but show business.

My dad's a filmmaker, and my mom's an actress. She was the original understudy, actually, for Harper in 'Angels in America' and did the show for about several months while she was pregnant with my older brother. And so I grew up obsessed with film and filmmaking.

I'm always looking for other interesting films to either act in or direct.

When I was 23, I went to work for Jack Nicholson reading scripts. Later, I was married to a production designer named Richard Sylbert. So I lived in Los Angeles for ten years.

My father was so in love with showbiz, all the different aspects - what we're doing here, making the movies, everything about it.

Acting and modeling have nothing to do with each other.

I think that being a producer is business and being an actor is art.

Modelling doesn't hold you back in L.A. at all.

It's actually shocking to me how hard it's been to get back into the movie business.

My brother's a grip. My mom's a scriptwriter. My dad's a director. So it's like, at heart, I'm a below-the-line girl.

Hollywood is my day job.

I want to go wherever there's great work. I'm a huge fan of film primarily. But you can get a great TV show and get attached to it. Making a great film is forever, though, so I always want to be part of film. It's my first love.

A lot of show business, as you know, is about all the contacts you make and who you know.