Hank Azaria Quotes

Godzilla's a monster for the '90s. He's been working out.

I wore a thong and a bra and a wig. Those things hurt. I mean, thongs? Like, they dig in. It takes a tough man to be a woman.

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

When you become deeply involved with someone, their problems become yours, and vice versa. It's family.

I guess I'm used to seeing actors, but rock musicians still hold a special magic for me.

I was hedging my bets by the time I got to college. I was interested in drama and journalism and psychology.

There's no experience like on-the-job training.

[Kids] are just like annoying short people

When you do well in a movie that's seen as really great, you're revitalized for six weeks.

I don't really remember much about the '60s at all. You know, 1970 is the first year I remember pretty well.

I bartended for a catering company for two or three years...

Guys will definitely settle for women who get the joke. But a woman who can make you laugh? It's not high on a guy's must list. Perhaps it should be.

A lot of times, when I record with a group, I'll stay after class for another hour or two and go, 'Let me try a bunch of things I was thinking of, as you were doing that.'

The craft Emmys are kind of the kids table at Thanksgiving. You're not really invited to the big dance. It's still really, really exciting, and the statue still counts.

Just watching Jack Lemmon made me want to get into this business.

I love acting, but I want to explore other things.

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.

Women are, in general, less shallow visually. If their man gains 10, 20 pounds, they don't care as much.

When you're on a series that's been cancelled, there's a little bit of a stink on you.

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.

It's always impressive when talented comedians are easy laughers or generous with their laughs.

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.

I've done literally 100, 150 different characters.

I would love to do Broadway again.

I was 16 and did a play at school. I was a rather good student... And then I did a play when I was 16 and completely lost all my concentration for academics.

You never know who's going to kill you until you meet them.

Politics is topical - it's what's happening now, and we can either respond in the present or avoid it.

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.

I'm very happy I get to keep working - it's an insanely fortunate thing.

I've been doing silly voices since I was a child.

You have to always physicalize, when you do animation recording. Otherwise, you won't get the performance right.

I've always been a fan of plain writing. I hate metaphor-laden, heavily larded, lyrical writing.

Literally, I see my writing as transcription - a transcription of what I see, hear, think, live.

A self-help book can't really address a problem unless it's individualized. It's not going to talk about a globalized problem.

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.

I had kind of sworn off network TV a while ago.

That's a true actor's nightmare: "Improvise in British sign language. Go."

I put a tremendous amount of pressure on myself. I felt like I shouldn't have to audition for anything and all that. And that energy did not serve me at all.

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.

Once someone is in your family orbit, there's a mutual responsibility, and whatever happens to them happens to you.

I guess for me the greatest injustice is to see people robbed of that interiority and process of association.

Even trying it as an actor, I never thought I'd actually make it.

I ask for a lot of advice from different fathers - all kinds of dads.

The craft Emmys are kind of the kids' table at Thanksgiving. You're not really invited to the big dance. It's still really, really exciting, and the statue still counts.