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Simon Helberg Biography

Simon Maxwell Helberg (born December 9, 1980) is an American actor, comedian, and musician. He is best known for his role as Howard Wolowitz in the sitcom The Big Bang Theory (2007–present), for which he won a Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series, and as Cosmé McMoon in the film Florence Foster Jenkins (2016), which earned him a Golden Globe Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture.

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I wanted to move on. I wanted to do acting. The next thing I did after [MADtv] was a good hybrid of that. I did this show with Bob Odenkirk and Derek Waters (creator of Comedy Central's "Drunk History") and it was a little homegrown thing that we shot and then we sold it to HBO. We made a pilot and HBO didn't pick it up, but then we made all these webisodes. This was before streaming stuff online made any sense. (The episodes are available on YouTube). Nobody even knew how to watch things on the internet.

Drunk, Hbo, Homegrown, Moving, Pick, Youtube

Meryl Streep is so brilliant is because she is so human, and aware as a performer.

Brilliant, Human, Humans, Meryl, Performer, Performers

There are bits at the table read that destroy, so much so that we can't wait to do it in taping. And then, no reaction. And then there are times when I can't get the right read on a line in rehearsal, and then the audience howls at it. The strange thing is I still don't know why it happens like that. It's not like afterwards I think, 'Now I know why that worked!'

Audience, Lines, Table, Think, Thinking, Waiting

I wanted to come to Chicago. I also wanted to do "Saturday Night Live. " And then I got to a place where I didn't want to do those things anymore. For the sketch comedy thing, I got cast on "MADtv," and that will kill any man's desire to do comedy.

Cast, Come, Desire, Men, Night, Things

It was like in the film, when I was actually doing a take and wasn't quite sure of the context, and then in the completed film it works beautifully. In the end I didn't know why I felt so shitty doing it, and why it turns out great in the final product. I guess you have to live in that unknown.

Context, Ends, Film, Finals, Guess, Unknown

Well, I think that everybody is kind of a nerd at heart.

Heart, Kind, Nerd, Think, Thinking

It's amazing to watch somebody who is kind of this sleazy, degenerate lothario, sex-crazed guy become sort of a romantic, settled-down man about to have a baby.

Baby, Man, Men, Romantic, Sex, Sort

When you have this long of a run [in The Big Bang Theory], you don't have to have something happen every episode. Like, Sheldon lost his virginity last season and in the first season he didn't even like girls. So I feel like you can earn that stuff. And that is really fun, because you get to find new layers. It's a testament to the writing.

Fun, Girl, Happen, Running, Testament

To me the ambiguity is, maybe our perception of ourselves is always going to be different than somebody else's perception. There will always be that disparity.

Ambiguity, Different, Disparity, Perception

That is what's disconcerting about working on the show, you can't seem to get an instinct about what works and what doesn't. It happens a lot, and in different ways.

Different, Happens, Instinct, Show, Way, Works

There are those moments where you realize that your parents or your heroes are human and are fallible. That concept, in and of itself, is something that is dangerous to me, in a good way. It's exciting and scary to meet those people.

Concept, Hero, Parent, People, Realize, Scary

I had to learn all the pieces backward and forward [to play it in "Florence Foster Jenkins"]. We practiced on weekends. It was very much like being in school, except it was with Meryl Streep. Like, I would go to her apartment and we would practice Mozart's "Queen of the Night. "

Apartment, Backward, Like, Queens, School, Weekend

It's always nice when someone says that they don't realize it's me on screen, but it would be strange to enter a one story while thinking of another character I do, which is completely different.

Character, Nice, Screen, Story, Thinking

Im married, so I tend not to hit on every girl.

Girl, Married, Every Girl, Hit, Tend

There's no real escape from the work, but in some ways, if you're as obsessive as I am, it's a sweet little thing we've figured out. You bring your work home and you work 24 hours a day, but it's good.

Sweet, Real, Home, Day, Work, Hours

Generally people are nice, but it's so weird that it has made me more cautious. Just like anyone else, I like looking around at my environment, but now as I walk down the street I tend to look down.

Cautious, Look, Looking, Looks, Nice, People

I did not want to be the accompanist to an operatic star. But I was at a very high level for a 16-year-old, and I maintained that. So really good, but more impressive than classically trained. So I had to take a crash course in classical technique because I really wanted to get away with playing this character [in Florence Foster Jenkins] without people saying, "That's not really accurate. "

Stars, Character, Years, High, Level

It's not really about confidence. It's just something that isn't really in the vocabulary of what goes on at work. The writers write and the actors act.

Writing, Vocabulary, Actors, Write, Confidence

I came in ["MADtv"] kind of late in the season. Some of the producers didn't want me but the network did. It was all (messed up) from the beginning.

Came, Kind, Messed, Producers, Season, Want

There's also these moments when you're like, oh, I really want to do different things. Not instead of this show [The Big Bang Theory]. It's just a hunger to do something else, too.

Bangs, Different, Want, Like, Theory, Bang

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