Top 25 Johnny Galecki Quotes

I’m a fan of music in general.

I’m not at my best when I’m not working – I’m certainly not at my happiest. Acting will always be my first love.

I read the papers, and I watch the news a lot. I watch ‘Dateline’ and ’48 Hours.’ And I think we have a tendency to become terrified of one another, thinking that there is a serial killer that is on either side of you.

I love to work. I absolutely love to work.

Scientists are not these guys in lab coats deep in the inner bowels of universities and hospitals with their Bunsen burners. They’re the people molding the culture that we live in, the future of our culture, and the technology we rely on every day. These are the rock stars of our time right now.

In a series, you really need to stay open-minded. It’s not like a play or a film, where you can create and fully commit to your character’s back-story.

When I started on ‘Roseanne,’ it was a great achievement for me at the time. But I wasn’t a part of building it; I wasn’t a carpenter in creating that juggernaut.

You know, I read the papers and I watch the news a lot. I watch ‘Dateline’ and ’48 Hours’. And I think we have a tendency to become terrified of one another, thinking that there is a serial killer that is on either side of you.

It took me a long time to realize that to walk around without a certain amount of belief in myself, to walk onto a job with my tail between my legs, wasn’t behooving anyone else.

It’s that one thing that you’re passionate about, that you end up developing tunnel vision for and everything else tends to fall by the wayside. Passion is appealing and universal.

We’ve all seen great actors and actresses who are missing a certain chemistry. And it’s not about getting along or not getting along.

Growing up in Chicago, I was a theater nerd. That might be very cool on the East Coast, but in Chicago, it’s really the athletes that come in No. 1 on the cool scale. Maybe musicians after that. Community theater? That’s way down the list, my friend.

I watch ’60 Minutes’ and ‘Dateline’ and ’20/20.’ I work in fantasy all day, so when I go home I want to touch reality.

Theater audiences don’t pull punches. They’ll let you know when they’re feeling ripped off.

You get to a certain point – gratefully – when you’re out of your twenties, and you realize how fleeting life is. So, it becomes important to feel as if the people in your life know exactly how you feel about them at all times.

I know a lot of incredibly, profoundly talented, skilled people that aren’t given certain opportunities or any opportunities, and that aren’t working.

People are complicated; you put two of them together and it’s generally a mess, but hopefully a beautiful mess.

Right now, I’m very healthy. I have no vices left. Except sugary breakfast cereal. And absinthe, of course.

It’s never been a priority for me to concentrate on the likability of the character.

I’m still a Chicagoan in the fact that I can’t do Christmas with sand and palm trees. It just doesn’t compute – it’s not Christmas unless your face hurts when you step outside.

I don’t know what to do with myself between films. I end up doing unhealthy things like shopping or drinking. I’m pretty schizophrenic about it.

I used to know Jennifer Love Hewitt. We lived in the same apartment building when I was about… jeez, I guess it was when I was doing ‘Christmas Vacation’, so I was about 13 or 14.

Perhaps ‘Big Bang’ fans feel so protective of the show because it is, despite being a hit show on a big network, something of a word-of-mouth phenomenon.

When you read the news, and you see all this bad stuff happening, there’s a tendency to lose faith in humanity. But I meet so many people who restore it and realize that, actually, 99 percent of people are great.

As they say, there are two rules in improv: Never say no, and never ask why. When another actor asks ‘Why?’ or says no to something you’re suggesting, then it’s very clear that they’re putting the onus on you, because they’re not comfortable with it themselves.