Hank Azaria Quotes
-
It's always impressive when talented comedians are easy laughers or generous with their laughs.
→ -
I love acting, but I want to explore other things.
→ -
Godzilla's a monster for the '90s. He's been working out.
→ -
Literally, I see my writing as transcription - a transcription of what I see, hear, think, live.
→ -
You never know who's going to kill you until you meet them.
→ -
Historically, there would always be people among the general population who had family members, friends, cousins who'd done time or who'd been in prison.
→ -
In gay culture hookups are a way of escaping your class.
→ -
I've done literally 100, 150 different characters. Some of them have only appeared for a line or three. But the point is, every sound I can make has been harvested.
→ -
Women are, in general, less shallow visually. If their man gains 10, 20 pounds, they don't care as much.
→ -
In my cranky old age, I actually prefer recording alone now, on 'The Simpsons,' for example, because I find that the director can just focus on what I'm doing and I can do a lot of variations. A lot of times, when I record with a group, I'll stay after class for another hour or two.
→ -
Getting over someone is a grieving process. You mourn the loss of the relationship, and that's only expedited by 'Out of sight, out of mind.' But when you walk outside and see them on a billboard or on TV or on the cover of a magazine, it reopens the wound. It's a high-class problem, but it's real.
→ -
When you become deeply involved with someone, their problems become yours, and vice versa. It's family.
→ -
I've met a lot of rock stars when they come to The Simpsons, and almost every one of them I get really freaked out.
→ -
Association bring you into the larger world of other people and things. Not having that is a kind of prison, a prison of such a limited consciousness, of such a limited frame of reference and association.
→ -
Just watching Jack Lemmon made me want to get into this business.
→ -
I was a huge fan of comedy and movies and TV growing up, and I was able to memorize and mimic a lot of things, not realizing that that meant I probably wanted to be an actor. I just really, really amused myself and my friends with memorizing entire George Carlin or Steve Martin albums.
→ -
You can't be funny for funny's sake. You try to get as outrageous situation as you can but it always has to be believable and based in real character motivations and what people would really do.
→ -
It's not really difficult to go from one voice into the next.
→ -
I don't really remember much about the '60s at all. You know, 1970 is the first year I remember pretty well.
→ -
As an actress, you're living something through the duration of the play and its geography. I've always seen writing the same way. It's like somehow I'm moving through the terrain of the book as a performer.
→ -
I did a lot of theater in college, and I knew that not many people make it, but I just figured, 'Well, I really want to try acting while I'm young, and I don't ever want to look back and say that I never gave it a try.' I fully figured I'd be back in grad school - probably for psychology.
→ -
I think the reason the Golden Age of television is so golden is because a lot of folks are willing to let creators do their thing and live or die by their own muse. They certainly allow us to do that.
→ -
When you do well in a movie that's seen as really great, you're revitalized for six weeks.
→ -
Being funny with a funny voice is more my comfort zone, a broader character that I try to humanize, a kind of silly or wacky persona that I try to fill in.
→ -
It's not really difficult to go from one voice into the next. It's like asking you to sing a line of Happy Birthday and then Goodnight Irene - assuming you know the words to both those songs
→ -
I just really committed to trying to never repeat myself. I'd seen actors do that on films, and I was, like, "I wanna try that once!" Ultimately, I'm much more in the school of getting one or two versions that feel right, as opposed to going all over the map. But it's fun to exercise that once in awhile.
→ -
I guess for me the greatest injustice is to see people robbed of that interiority and process of association.
→ -
I tend to not watch things that are current. And then if everybody swears it's amazing then I'll like watch the whole series in a weekend.
→ -
I had kind of sworn off network TV a while ago.
→ -
I would love to do Broadway again.
→
Related Authors
-
Julie Kavner Film actress -
Christina Ricci Actress -
Nathan Lane Actor -
Robin Williams Actor -
Sofia Vergara Actress -
Brendan Gleeson Actor -
Katy Perry Recording Artist -
Anton Yelchin Film actor -
Jonathan Winters Comedian -
Jayma Mays Film actress -
Gene Hackman Actor -
Harry Shearer Actor -
James L. Brooks Producer -
Neil Patrick Harris Actor -
Ben Stiller Actor -
Dan Castellaneta Actor -
Dan Futterman Actor -
Helen Hunt Actress -
Yeardley Smith Actress -
Matt Groening Cartoonist