Hank Azaria Quotes

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

In gay culture hookups are a way of escaping your class.

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

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.

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.'

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.

I've been divorced and I had to get back out there be single again and do some of that in the genuinely miserable state where you really do wonder what the hell is going on. And you feel like trying to have casual conversation with someone you don't know on the surface of the moon or something.

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 had kind of sworn off network TV a while ago.

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.

I would love to do Broadway again.

I've done literally 100, 150 different characters.

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 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 love acting, but I want to explore other things.

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 know those award shows. The cliche is that it's an honor just to be nominated, but that happens to be true. Whoever wins it in the end, I don't know, sometimes it feels arbitrary. Sometimes it feels like it's deserving.

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

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.

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 say with pride that I've done over a hundred voices or something, and some of them may have only had two or three lines, but I literally never ran out. I think I'm a bit of a savant that way. I kind of remember every voice I hear, famous or otherwise, and can imitate it pretty fast. I've enjoyed mimicking people famous and not famous all through my life, and they kind of remain in the memory banks, so I'm ready to trot them out.

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

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

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.

I joke that my niche in Hollywood has been naked foreigners.

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.

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