Simon Baker Quotes

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

If you can't be proud of what you do, go and sell shoes. Do something else.

People talk about random acts of kindness, and that goes back to the measure of being gentlemanly again. It's about having consideration for others, and not expecting anything back. That's the difference.

I'm not immune to the charms of the female form. And when I was 17 and I spent every spare minute surfing, most of the girls we hung out with would be topless.

I didn't grow up with money, but I grew up with a lot of space. All I did was surf. I was committed to the ocean. That's one thing about Australians; we have the capacity to embrace life.

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

I don't like fancy fiddly girlie stuff.

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

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

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

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.

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 made a point to not read too far ahead with the first six or seven episodes of any show. I would read the outlines, but I didn't really want to read scripts too far in advance because I didn't really want to get ahead of myself, at all. To be honest, I don't have the time to come up with theories.

I think most people can identify with the hierarchy of the workplace.

The first guy I really liked and was kind of obsessed with and had to seek out and find more of his films was Jean-Paul Belmondo. He was the main guy that I was obsessed with.

I've always been really drawn to that kind of sexual earthiness in European women, and Sophia Loren covered all the bases, including the whole mummy fantasy.

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

I think my kids are pretty well-rounded citizens of the world.

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

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.

I was probably not the first to lose my virginity among my friends. I was definitely one of the last ones to reach puberty - I didn't grow until the last couple years of high school.

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

French are what they are without excusing themselves to be.

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.