Simon Baker Quotes

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

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

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

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.

I've always been a shy person.

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

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

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

I think this Occupy Wall Street thing is great. I think that is a good thing and that people need to stand up, voice their opinions, and be heard.

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

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

I love con-men characters in film.

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

I don't use deodorant. If you drink enough water, you shouldn't have to. I think I smell pretty good without 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 don't like fancy fiddly girlie stuff.

I do have a lot of Australian friends.

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

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

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.

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

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

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