Top 30 Simon Baker Quotes

There’s more of a family connection when you’re working on a TV show. That’s not to say that you don’t make great connections when you’re working on films, but it’s different unless you’re there working every day.

I’ve seen the odd tarot reader and had my palm read in various countries and explained to me in many strains of broken English. Did I believe a word? To be honest, I didn’t understand much, but I loved watching the presentation.

For an actor working in television or film, I think it’s important to understand how the medium works – how the camera and lenses work and how the sound and the editing works.

L.A.’s a better place to live than it is to visit.

I like putting my money into things like food and shelter. I’m probably a bad example of an investor.

It’s always difficult when you’re on a show that goes for more than a year or a couple of years.

A shot is only as every as good as how well it tells the story.

Time goes a lot quicker when the work is a lot more enjoyable.

Sometimes the intensity and the grind of doing television can wear you down, but at the same time there’s something about the repetition, the sheer mass of work that you do that’s also liberating.

The French have the reputation of being arrogant. I don’t think it’s arrogance but a certain authenticity.

I would love to do a rom-com, but they are not good – good and successful doesn’t equate to the same thing.

I’ve always been a shy person.

In general, the problem in a relationship is when the couple stagnate.

I am very straight-forward and direct. If I disagree with something, I say something about it.

I don’t like the idea of talking down to kids. I think I was talked down to, and you rebel against that.

I need some challenges in love or I’m bored.

In network TV, you have to present the box before you can step outside it.

When I have to play the same role every day, I have the flexibility to play the character in so many different ways. It’s almost like playing five different roles.

I try to be straightforward and honest with my kids, and I believe nothing beats good old hard work.

I’m a big fan of Alan J. Pakula’s films like ‘All the President’s Men’, ‘The Parallax View,’ and ‘Klute.’ I’m a big fan of those movies.

I don’t use deodorant. If you drink enough water, you shouldn’t have to. I think I smell pretty good without it.

I do have a lot of Australian friends.

I cut my own hair most of the time. You just do it all by feel.

As a kid I was always a bit of a clown, a performer.

I don’t like fancy fiddly girlie stuff.

I love con-men characters in film.

I’m pretty good at gardening. It consumes my time, and it feels like I’m doing something constructive.

My life is pretty hectic, but I’m really into it.

Every TV show is a crapshoot, really. But every once in a while, a show gets anointed as ‘the show.’

My kids think I’m old and over the hill.