91 Quotes by Ed Helms

People who grew up in New York City or Los Angeles tend not to even understand what goes on in the rest of the country. I’m really glad to have grown up in an environment where I actually was kind of a weirdo because I was obsessed with comedy and movies and stuff.

It’s incredibly fun to play someone that you don’t like. It exorcises your own demons in a way. It’s cathartic. We all have things that we don’t like about ourselves, little things. And I get to amplify those things and put them out there. It’s fun and it has a cleansing effect.

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

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.

I lived in New York for 10 years, I loved it, I never second-guessed it. There were definitely times when I thought, “I will never leave this place.” And I kind of got into that center-of-the-universe mindset.

Vulnerability is huge. I love to see that in characters. It’s something I feel like a lot of my comedic heroes have always done.

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 loved the show Lost, in part because the writers were so nimble in how they would take things from previous episodes, that probably weren’t created with any intent towards a larger narrative, and they would get woven into narratives in a really elegant and exciting way.

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.