Simon Helberg Quotes

Before I became an actress, I was a cellist. I've been playing since I was 14, was in a lot of bands, and acting was more of a hobby.

Originally I studied as a musician, a classical pianist. That was my career before I took up acting in my late 20s.

Music is definitely something that I'd like to pursue. It's probably, I mean, the acting and music are the two biggest things in my life.

My dad is a gentle and brilliant Iranian violinist.

I've been composing music all my life and if I'd been clever enough at school I would like to have gone to music college.

I play mostly guitar, and I played drums in my brother's band for a while growing up.

And I've played piano since I was little, so I was originally the piano player in the band.

I just started playing guitar and started singing and started working on this act that I would call 'Don McLean' when I was probably in high school.

I've spent my life playing music.

I started out doing the acting, and there was always an interest in music, and then the music just took off.

When I was a musician, I had no intention of taking up acting.

I wanted to be a musician but I didn't have the talent for it, so I decided I wanted to be famous, so I became an actor.

I came to New York to be an actor and I became a film producer first.

The only thing I have ever really cared to be known as is a musician.

I love music so much I love what I do. I work very hard at being the best musician I can be because I love it.

My dad was a musician and I traveled around with him, so it was something that I knew.

Quite a few musicians came to our house. And my ma took me to hear many more, hoping to encourage in me a love of music. But she wouldn't consent to my having music lessons, for she feared I might end up as she had done - unable to play except from paper.

Being a musician is a noble profession.

I guess as a kid, I was always creative, and I was involved in music, like piano and violin and choir, so I always knew - I always knew that I wanted to do something that would allow me to be who I am. Generally, that was creatively, imaginatively.

I started out as a musician. Although I always wanted to have a dual career, I fell into the TV and movie business more strongly and more quickly.

For me, I was a musician long before I was an actor.

I took piano lessons and dancing lessons. I was very good at piano.

When you start playing as young as me, and you've been in front of audiences your entire life, this is literally what I grew up doing.

I had started out my grown-up life in New York City, but I couldn't figure out how to be an actor there. And so I had been a magazine illustrator instead.

To be an actor wasn't something that seemed realistic. I started late; I was about 19.