Simon Helberg

“I guess I get really obsessive or passionate about things.”

“My mom is a casting director, which is pretty awesome.”

“I might love dancing more than I should admit. But not in public.”

“I own a fart CD. It has, I believe, over 100 fart sounds. A lovely variety, from the up-close and personal to the more experimental and dissonant. Some people prefer to listen to Bach when they go to sleep... not me.”

“There's something very funny about giving a menial task to a genius and watching him find so much complexity and overanalyse it to such a degree that the waitress from Nebraska working at the Cheesecake Factory has passed them all by.”

“I'm happy to try on as many characters as I can.”

“Karate probably gave me an incredibly deep awareness of all the parts of me, my flexibility, and the nimble qualities I'm doing, even if they're unconscious.”

“I'm interested in character and people and motivations and things like that.”

“I play piano, and I was really, really obsessive about playing piano in high school. I don't know if that's nerdy, but I definitely locked myself in the room and was playing jazz. I was 14. I guess that's kind of cool, actually.”