Simon Pegg famous quotes

I think we all mistake certain things for happiness. I think we mistake comfort for happiness and we mistake pleasure for happiness, and entertainment for happiness, when really these are just things we use as proxies for our happiness. We use them to cheer us up or try and achieve brief happiness, when really happiness is something much more profound and long lasting and exists within us.
-- Simon Pegg

#Cheer #Mistake #Thinking

The worst and the best that the internet ever did was give everybody a voice.
-- Simon Pegg

#Voice #Giving #Internet

We are never more creative than when we are at odds with the world and there is nothing so artistically destructive as comfort. Princess Leia taught me that.
-- Simon Pegg

#Princess #Odds #Creative

Films that rely on their cast to be funny are often episodic and feel like a series of loosely connected sketches rather than a satisfyingly structured script.
-- Simon Pegg

#Scripts #Film #Feels

I used to lie in bed in my flat and imagine what would happen if there was a zombie attack.
-- Simon Pegg

#Lying #Imagination #Zombie

The trouble with improv is that it is often about being funny in the moment without any real consideration for the bigger picture.
-- Simon Pegg

#Real #Trouble #Moments

Being a geek is all about being honest about what you enjoy and not being afraid to demonstrate that affection. It means never having to play it cool about how much you like something. It’s basically a license to proudly emote on a somewhat childish level rather than behave like a supposed adult. Being a geek is extremely liberating.
-- Simon Pegg

#Mean #Self #Play

Unfortunately the necessity to promote a film sometimes works against it, in that you are forced to reveal information [about it] that in an ideal world you would hold back.
-- Simon Pegg

#Information #World #Film

I think that the joke and the ghost story both have a similar set up in that you kind of set something up and pay it off with a laugh or a scare.
-- Simon Pegg

#Thinking #Ghost Stories #Laughing

When you go into a movie and you're surprised by it - these days with brand recognition being such an important thing and essentially trailers, the way trailers have evolved encouraging people not to see the film unless they've already seen the film which is kind of the paradox of marketing these days anytime that you enjoy genuine sense of wonder and surprise in the movies it's priceless.
-- Simon Pegg

#People #Marketing #Important

Spoilers are cowardly. They're just people who want to anesthetize themselves against the tension and the experience that the director and the artist have set up. If you go in there knowing what's going to happen, it's like reading the last page of the book. It's just cowardly.
-- Simon Pegg

#Book #Reading #Artist

Sometimes you just wish you could make a film and then have it on DVD so you can see your mom. But, no, I've never really had that moment. Not really. Not seriously.
-- Simon Pegg

#Mom #Dvds #Wish

I love my job very much, and I don't think I would change it. In fact, I know I wouldn't, because I can't do anything else.
-- Simon Pegg

#Jobs #Thinking #Facts

I realized that if I went snowboarding, you can't think of anything else when you're snowboarding. You can't hesitate or think about anything other than not falling off and breaking your neck. If you want a holiday where you're not gonna think about work and you're not gonna think about anything, snowboarding is the best way to do it. Or skiing, I guess. I don't ski, so I don't know.
-- Simon Pegg

#Fall #Holiday #Thinking

I like to work in films, but I'd love to work in the technical side of film. I'd love to work with, say, Greg Nicotero [The Walking Dead] in kind of, like, special makeup effects. I'd probably say, "Good with clay and latex." Although I don't know what kind of job that'd get me.
-- Simon Pegg

#Jobs #Makeup #Walking Dead

If one of your best friends is making a Star Wars movie, you're not gonna not abuse that privilege. I defy anybody to say otherwise!
-- Simon Pegg

#Stars #War #Abuse

When you meet people that you know from other films - as often happens to me, and as tends to happens to you when you're an actor, you constantly meet people that you've seen in other films. But when it's people who've kind of had a seismic effect on your life, it's quite extraordinary.
-- Simon Pegg

#People #Actors #Kind

I lived in the cultural equivalent of Tatooine when I was a little boy. I didn't live in London, I didn't live right in the middle of where everything was happening, I lived on the very edge of it.
-- Simon Pegg

#Boys #Littles #London

I hesitate to say I was the class clown, but that was kind of how I interacted with other kids in school, and I very much appreciated the responses I got. The validation of laughter is often a very heavy psychological balm.
-- Simon Pegg

#Laughter #School #Kids

As a kid, I was a huge fan of movies and acting. My mom was in the sort of community theater, and I always hung around down there, and I was a massive fan of everything I'm kind of involved in now. But fairly ordinary and cheeky.
-- Simon Pegg

#Mom #Kids #Community

If I was a supervillain, I think I'd probably ban all smoking and drinking. That's exactly what I'd do: I'd remove all the cigarettes and alcohol from the world. That would piss so many people off. That's worse than, like, murdering puppies. For some people.
-- Simon Pegg

#Drinking #Thinking #People

You grow up watching certain films or admiring certain filmmakers, and to write a love letter to one and have them validate it, it's extraordinary.
-- Simon Pegg

#Growing Up #Writing #Letters

When you're a student and you just want some money to feel like you're an adult, you'll pretty much do anything within reason.
-- Simon Pegg

#Want #Adults #Students

My worst job was packing animal feed in a warehouse in Gloucestershire when I was a student. It was a very strange environment. It was hung heavy with oat dust, the place was infested with mice, and everyone who worked there was over 60, and I was 18. It was crazy. Apologies to anyone who works in animal-feed packing industry and loves it.
-- Simon Pegg

#Jobs #Crazy #Apology

It's why I get miffed at all the dashing around in recent zombie films. It completely misses the point; transforms the threat to a straightforward physical danger from the zombies themselves, rather than our own inability to avoid them and these films are about us, not them. There's far more meat on the bones of the latter, far more juicy interpretation to get our teeth into. The first zombie is by comparison thin and one dimensional and ironically, it is down to all the exercise.
-- Simon Pegg

#Exercise #Missing #Zombie

Doctor Who was a big part of my childhood so it was a great honour to be in it.
-- Simon Pegg

#Doctors #Childhood #Bigs

I think at its best the American sense of humor is the same as the British sense of humor at its best, which is to be wry and ironic and self deprecating.
-- Simon Pegg

#Thinking #Self #Ironic

A biological agent, I’ll buy. Some sort of super-virus? Sure, why not. But death? Death is a disability, not a superpower. It’s hard to run with a cold, let alone the most debilitating malady of them all.
-- Simon Pegg

#Running #Agents #Viruses

I just love listening to the laughter.
-- Simon Pegg

#Laughter #Listening

Being a geek is extremely liberating
-- Simon Pegg

#Geek #Liberating

We don't watch the film anymore because we've seen it so many times, so we'll introduce it, walk out and we'll come back in right about when I wake up in the morning and walk over to the shop and everything's changed.
-- Simon Pegg

#Morning #Wake Up #Watches

I mean, yeah, I'm sure that Python and the other things have paved the way for a greater understanding of the British sense of humor, but I don't think it's all that different than the American sense of humor.
-- Simon Pegg

#Humor #Mean #Thinking

Being a geek is all about being honest about what you enjoy...
-- Simon Pegg

#Honest #Geek #Being Honest

Happiness is where you start from rather than where you go. God, I sound like Yoda.
-- Simon Pegg

#Sound

Films used to be about challenging, emotional journeys or moral questions that might make you walk away and re-evaluate how you felt about... whatever. Now we're walking out of the cinema really not thinking about anything, other than the fact that the Hulk had a fight with a robot.
-- Simon Pegg

#Fighting #Journey #Emotional

American audiences tend to be more expressive than British ones.
-- Simon Pegg

#British #Audience #Expressive

The simple fact is that what you see on the screen is pretty much real.
-- Simon Pegg

#Real #Simple #Facts

I'm simply saying that our deepest thoughts, desires and preoccupations manifest themselves in art, whether we intend them to or not. That's what art is for; it's not cerebral, it's emotional.
-- Simon Pegg

#Art #Emotional #Desire

Plainly it isn't an exact science, despite it being a complex interaction of micro-decisions and corresponding thought; perhaps it doesn't always work and we pass by some potential soulmates like the proverbial ships in the night, never quite connecting. Then again, perhaps the system is tenacious and continues to run like a computer program on infinite loop, so that if at first you don't meet, you are drawn back together for another try.
-- Simon Pegg

#Running #Soulmate #Night

Ultimately, we are all products of the experiences we have and the decisions we make as children, and it remains a peculiar detail of human condition that something as precious as the future is entrusted to us when we possess so little foresight. Perhaps that's what makes hindsight so intriguing. When you're young the future is a blank canvas, but looking back you are always able to see the big picture.
-- Simon Pegg

#Children #Decision #Details

The main jokes in this film are about big things, love and life and zombies - we all get that.
-- Simon Pegg

#Life And Love #Zombie #Film

Chris Martin's a good friend of mine. I'm actually Apple's godfather. He's an old friend and we've been mates for quite a few years now.
-- Simon Pegg

#Good Friend #Years #Apples

We might not know we are seeking people who best enrich our lives, but somehow on a deep subconscious level we absolutely are. Whether the bond is temporary or permanent, whether it succeeds or fails, fate is simply a configuration of choices that combine with others to shape the relationships that surround us. We cannot choose our family, but we can choose our friends, and we sometimes, before we even meet them.
-- Simon Pegg

#Fate #People #Choices

In the most basic terms it was about how when we experience art without critical awareness we consent to the ideas being promoted, either intentionally or unintentionally, by the filmmaker. For instance, if you watch a racist comedian and laugh at his jokes, you are consenting to the prejudices inherent within them. Similarly, if you watch a movie which perpetuates conventional ideas about race, gender, etc., you are consenting to them and not affecting change in any way.
-- Simon Pegg

#Art #Race #Ideas

It wasn't until a year later, when a young woman with Danish pastries on either side of her head knelt down in front of a walking dustbin to record an important message, that love truly came to town." - p 16 [re: Princess Leia]
-- Simon Pegg

#Princess #Years #Important

Being a geek means you never have to play it cool about how much you like something.
-- Simon Pegg

#Mean #Play #Geek

I was the naughty kid that the teachers liked. I bullied a kid in the 1st year when I was in the 2nd, who then hit puberty like a plane crash and grew into a gorilla who bullied me when he was in the 4th year and I was in the 5th. That's Karma.
-- Simon Pegg

#Karma #Teacher #Kids

If there is no fate and our interactions depend on such a complex system of chance encounters, what potentially important connections do we fail to make? What life changing relationships or passionate and lasting love affairs are lost to chance?
-- Simon Pegg

#Life Changing #Fate #Important

Every person should have their escape route planned. I think everyone has an apocalypse fantasy, what would I do in the event of the end of the world, and we just basically - me and Nick - said what would we do, where would we head?
-- Simon Pegg

#Thinking #Events #World

Also, if you watch the film once, there are lots of things that you won't get because there are punch lines in the first act, the setup to which isn't until the second act.
-- Simon Pegg

#Firsts #Watches #Lines

The trouble with addiction is that you can park the car but you can never switch off the engine or stop yourself from hearing the revs.
-- Simon Pegg

#Addiction #Car #Parks

There are actually quite high profile British TV star cameos in it that you probably wouldn't even notice, that the British wouldn't even notice, let alone the American audience.
-- Simon Pegg

#Stars #Tvs #Profile

There's this thing of you can live in a city and be completely alone, not notice anything going on around you.
-- Simon Pegg

#Cities

Suddenly, the world I had scrutinised for so long was all around me, as if I had leaned forward and climbed into the television like Alice through the looking-glass. I had no idea just how deep the rabbit hole would go.
-- Simon Pegg

#Glasses #Ideas #Long