Ed Helms Quotes

You're my special angel, sent from up above. The Lord smiled down on me, and sent an angel to love.

[I read news] because no one's going to tell me what they really think of something.

As a hobbyist, there's something about miniature anything that captures my imagination.

I think the culture of Civil War re-enacting is also incredibly fascinating.

I have profound respect for Sacha Baron Cohen, but Borat is not a particularly comfortable movie for me to sit through.

I cannot stress this enough - if you try to install an HDTV in a non-HDTV compatible house, you may tear the space-time continuum.

I had envisioned doing comedy since childhood. For sure.

It has been said that a rolling stone gathers no moss. I would add that sometimes a rolling stone also gathers no verifiable facts or even the tiniest morsels of journalistic integrity.

I'm sure I cause just as much consternation for editors as any other actor, but it definitely makes me feel more comfortable understanding how and why all the different camera setups exist.

I love travel. I love to go spend time in new places. And even though I got horribly sick in Thailand, and it was the sickest I may have ever been in my life, I still loved the trip.

The piano song that I do in the movie [The Hangover], it's a great example, that was never - that wasn't in the script.

Probably my favorite thing about watching a movie that I'm in the first time is to see all the things I didn't know were happening in a scene around me.

People now genuinely respond to it and associate me with music. It's really fun.

With the tiger you're always on edge, and you always have to keep your distance. The monkey is far less threatening so you're more relaxed around the monkey, and I think that's actually hazardous.

Todd [Phillips] doesn't care. That's part of his genius as a director, he will say anything to anybody.

They [Mike Tyson and Todd Phillips] actually struck up a really pretty incredible chemistry, those two, and I think they really trusted each other.

I'm sure I cause just as much consternation for editors as any other actor, it definitely makes me feel more comfortable understanding how and why all the different camera setups exist.

As an editor, you're constantly dealing with the best way to convey an exchange between two people. So when I'm shooting, I'm just aware in the back of my head what an editor might want.

It was never tough [ being the new guy]. It's just the warmest group of people [The Office stuff] you could ever hope to work with.

Sometimes you just create a joke out of thin air in the editing room. I'm really glad I've had that experience. It gives me a little more confidence in front of the camera.

The improv stuff, that's always surprising so a lot of times that's really funny.

I'm the worst in The Office. It's a problem. They've had to shut down the set for like 30 minutes because of me.

There really aren't any deletes [in The Hanover movie]. There's like one or two deleted scenes but they're not important or meaningful scenes.

No one employed [ chaos] better than Jim Henson, by the way, on The Muppets. He had all these chicken Muppets that just brought in the most glorious chaos to whatever scene they were a part of.

The Daily Show was an incredible training ground for that kind of thing. It was all about discipline and generating material constantly.

Let's just say it was damn hard [to make the Hangover]. I've got the bumps and bruises to show for it. It's funny because things that don't even look that bad on screen were still extremely painful.

I've always been into toys and kits and models. I'm kind of a toy nerd.

That's actually a rare thing to be on a set full of people that you admire and make you laugh all the time.

When I was 15 I lost a tooth and had an implant put in. Cut to 20 years later, I'm doing this part [Andy Bernard] and the script calls for my character to lose a tooth.

Whenever I've messed around with radio-controlled things, there's always been a part of me that's thought, I wonder if there might actually be a little guy piloting these vehicles.

You see a lot of sides of people on a movie set because it can be really taxing and to kind of go through all that together - you really get to know someone.

I told personal stories the way [Bill] Cosby would spin a yarn for ten minutes. I think in hindsight it works better as a long story than as a condensed monologue.

The biggest thing that comes out of improv that gets built on is just character traits. You know, for me the singing was born out of improv.

Sometimes you just create a joke out of thin air in the editing room. So I'm really glad I've had that experience. It gives me a little more confidence in front of the camera.

Working on The Daily Show, I co-produced all those field segments, and that's another huge thing.I probably did more than 100 field segments.

I'm pretty sure no one's reading action scripts saying, 'This has got to be Ed Helms.'

As much as you do get beat-up doing even small action sequences, it's incredibly fun.

I'm kind of embarrassed by how quickly I adjusted to L.A. I really love it. It's so pleasant.

When you're playing a fictional character reacting to the real world, it's incredibly difficult and confusing and kind of messes with your values a bit.

There are currently more political parties in Iraq than unbombed buildings to hold them.

I happen to think singing is hilarious, especially when it pops out at the wrong time.

I'm a very jaded and cynical person.

Shouldn't EVERY week be Infection Control Week?

Alcohol causes conflicts, firearms resolve conflicts.

It's kind of hard to win most elections on anti-family, immorality, and Satan-worship.

They should ask their parents if it would be all right for their son or daughter to marry a Negro.

I fight for what I believe. If you are not willing to stand up for what you believe, your beliefs are not strong enough.

Our constituency aren't the type of people to be on the Internet.

The challenge is always before us. Whenever we lose sight of the principles that mattered to our founders we run into trouble.

I do not intend to allow the Senate to rubber-stamp the president's plan to reward the Chinese Communists.