Simon Pegg Quotes

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.

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

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

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.

I do get very angry at things. My wife has to count to ten because if she gets annoyed at me being annoyed, then I get annoyed at her being annoyed at me being annoyed.

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.

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

American audiences tend to be more expressive than British ones.

I was always Luke because I had blond hair, and my mate Stu was Han. Han was the cool one. The Jedi were never the cool ones.

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.

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

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.

Being a geek is extremely liberating

I just love listening to the laughter.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

Bill Hicks wasn't just a comic, he was a crusader against humanity's relentless capacity to underachieve

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.

It's hard, really, to make any physical movement that hasn't been done in another film. If you grab someone's hand, it doesn't mean you're referencing other films with grabbing hands...

I've only played two sort-of slackers, in Spaced and in Shaun Of The Dead. They're different people, but they have the same kind of everyman quality, particularly as a twentysomething.

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.

That's always important to us, is being truthful. Not guessing, not making any assumptions. Just coming at it with knowledge.

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

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!

Often you read something about yourself, and either you've been ironic, and that doesn't work in print, or it paraphrases something that you said, and has a different meaning.

I think I would probably be He-Man because Battle Cat would clinch the deal for me because I've always wanted a large, green cat.

You know what, despite my complaints about The Phantom Menace and Episode II, when Episode III comes out I'll be first in line. I genuinely love it.

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

The nuts and bolts of shooting a film and writing a film are still really difficult. But what makes it easier is the fact that you know you're going to go to work with your best mate.

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.

I think the jokes would have been a bit broader and a bit more obvious in terms of the day-to-day of country life.

I defy anybody to not look cool with the guns. My granny could look cool doing that!

One thing that irritates me is when people kind of make assumptions.

It is an extraordinary thing to meet your heroes and find them to be everything you hoped they would be.

I will be forever grateful to Dora Brooking, for not only spotting my light bulb but also helping me turn up the wattage.