Simon Baker

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

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

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

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

“Well, capitalism is going to grow and grow. The nature of it is that the guy who has the most poker chips on the table has more leverage than everyone else. He can eventually outbluff everyone else and outraise everyone else at the table. That's what has happened and it needs to be corrected.”

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

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

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

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

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

“I love con-men characters in film.”

“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.”