Simon Helberg Quotes

He thinks too much. Such men are dangerous.

A mugwump is a person educated beyond his intellect.

Thinking is the most overrated human activity.

Everybody denies I am a genius - but nobody ever called me one!

When works get too intellectual, they lose their intensity.

My biggest criticism is how can people be so easily satisfied? Even people with talent.

Genius of great affairs abhors nicety of division

Discontent arises from a knowledge of the possible, as contrasted with the actual

Just because a subject is serious doesn't mean it doesn't have plenty of absurdities.

Sometimes it just becomes so technical that you forget what you're doing. If you start thinking about how you come down the stairs and think about how each muscle is working, you can't go down the stairs. Anyway, I'm a person who overthinks and overanalyzes everything, so if you give me one thought, it creates a lot more.

I missed a whole cycle of childhood, but I've never used it as a device for self-pity.

I think one of the pitfalls of doing your own music is that sometimes you can never be satisfied with it: you're afraid to say that it's done, and you keep reworking it or re-recording it or re-writing it.

There never were any roles for my kind of acting. That's the story of my life.

Ironic things are interesting.

A 'nidiot' is something different from an idiot. An idiot is someone whose problems are caused by not concentrating enough. A 'nidiot' is someone who makes his life more complicated by thinking too much rather than not enough. I'm not an idiot, but I'm definitely a 'nidiot'!

Stuck as Adam Cartwright, I was only able to use about one-tenth of my ability.

You can get so well educated in America that your thoughts become detached from common sense. You can get so complicated in your thinking that the obvious isn't real to you anymore.

He read a lot. He used a lot of big words. I think maybe part of what got him into trouble was that he did too much thinking. Sometimes he tried too hard to make sense of the world, to figure out why people were bad to each other so often. A couple of times I tried to tell him it was a mistake to get too deep into that kind of stuff, but Alex got stuck on things. He always had to know the absolute right answer before he could go on to the next thing.

We always wanted to make a comedy that was a little bit more than that, which had tragic elements to it... that people engaged with - an intelligent comedy essentially.

Many things we do naturally become difficult only when we try to make them intellectual subjects. It is possible to know so much about a subject that you become totally ignorant.

By using your intelligence, you can sometimes make your problems twice as complicated.

I will tell you what Jeanne was like. She was like a piano in a country where everyone has had their hands cut off.

If you've never met a student from the University of Chicago, I'll describe him to you. If you give him a glass of water, he says, 'This is a glass of water. But is it a glass of water? And if it is a glass of water, why is it a glass of water?' And eventually he dies of thirst.

Thus with most careful devotion Thus with precise attention To detail, interfering preparation Of that which is already prepared Men lighten the knot of confusion Into perfect misunderstanding, Reflecting a pocket-torch of observation.

My personal feeling is that people need to be careful not to start over-analyzing and taking things apart and trying to be critical.