About Simon Baker: Simon Baker is an Australian actor and director. In his television acting career, he is best known for his lead role in the CBS television series The Mentalist as Patrick Jane and as Nicholas Fallin in The Guardian.
I don't use deodorant. If you drink enough water, you shouldn't have to. I think I smell pretty good without it.
I try to be straightforward and honest with my kids, and I believe nothing beats good old hard work.
I would love to do a rom-com, but they are not good - good and successful doesn't equate to the same thing.
I'm pretty good at gardening. It consumes my time, and it feels like I'm doing something constructive.
My life is pretty hectic, but I'm really into it.
Time goes a lot quicker when the work is a lot more enjoyable.
I cut my own hair most of the time. You just do it all by feel.
Sometimes the intensity and the grind of doing television can wear you down, but at the same time there's something about the repetition, the sheer mass of work that you do that's also liberating.
Well, capitalism is going to grow and grow. The nature of it is that the guy who has the most poker chips on the table has more leverage than everyone else. He can eventually outbluff everyone else and outraise everyone else at the table. That's what...
In general, the problem in a relationship is when the couple stagnate.
I need some challenges in love or I'm bored.
I love con-men characters in film.
I'm a big fan of Alan J. Pakula's films like 'All the President's Men', 'The Parallax View,' and 'Klute.' I'm a big fan of those movies.
For an actor working in television or film, I think it's important to understand how the medium works - how the camera and lenses work and how the sound and the editing works.
