Simon Baker Quotes

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

  Simon Baker

  Enjoyable

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Simon Baker

  Shoes, Proud, Ifs

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• 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.

  Simon Baker

  Kindness, Differences, People

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• 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.

  Simon Baker

  Girl, Surfing, Female

  "Fabulous Baker Boy". Interview with Andrew Goldman, www.elle.com. August 05, 2008.

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• 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.

  Simon Baker

  Growing Up, Ocean, Space

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

  Simon Baker

  Direct, Ifs, Disagree

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I don't like fancy fiddly girlie stuff.

  Simon Baker

  Fancy, Stuff

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Simon Baker

  Stories, Shots, Wells

  "Simon Baker Talks MARGIN CALL, Occupy Wall Street, THE MENTALIST, and His Thoughts on DOCTOR STRANGE". Interview with Steve Weintraub, collider.com. October 20, 2011.

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

  Simon Baker

  Life Is, Hectic

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Simon Baker

  Kids, Thinking, Talking

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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.

  Simon Baker

  Tv Shows, Connections, Different

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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.

  Simon Baker

  Character, Play, Way

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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

  Simon Baker

  Believe, Hard Work, Kids

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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.

  Simon Baker

  Want, Scripts, Firsts

  "Simon Baker and Bruno Heller Talk The Mentalist, Closing the Red John Chapter, Arriving at His Identity, and What the Resolution of This Case Means". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. August 24, 2016.

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

  Simon Baker

  Thinking, People, Hierarchy

  "Simon Baker Talks Margin Call, Occupy Wall Street, The Mentalist, and His Thoughts on Doctor Strange". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. October 20, 2011.

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• 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.

  Simon Baker

  Guy, Firsts, Kind

  "Simon Baker Talks Margin Call, Occupy Wall Street, The Mentalist, and His Thoughts on Doctor Strange". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. October 20, 2011.

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• 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.

  Simon Baker

  Fantasy, Kind, Mummy

  "Fabulous Baker Boy". Interview with Andrew Goldman, www.elle.com. August 05, 2008.

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

  Simon Baker

  Successful

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Simon Baker

  Kids, Thinking, Citizens

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Simon Baker

  Tvs, Steps, Boxes

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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.

  Simon Baker

  Television, Sometimes, Grind

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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.

  Simon Baker

  Couple, School, Years

  "Fabulous Baker Boy". Interview with Andrew Goldman, www.elle.com. August 05, 2008.

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

  Simon Baker

  Places To Live, Better Place

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• French are what they are without excusing themselves to be.

  Simon Baker

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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.

  Simon Baker

  Thinking, Editing, Important

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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