Hank Azaria Quotes

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

When I was young in L.A. and I couldn't get into clubs or restaurants, I would call imitating celebrities and get a table, and it would work often. I was either Stallone or Mickey Rourke: 'This is Sly. I may be late, but my buddy Hank will be there early.'

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.

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.

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.

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

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've met a lot of rock stars when they come to The Simpsons, and almost every one of them I get really freaked 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.

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

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 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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

The Iraq War. No one took to the streets over it. It certainly would have been appropriate. If anybody even hinted we should ... you were called un-American and not supporting the troops.

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

I would love to do Broadway again.

I have no new voices - they've all been used.

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

Women are, in general, less shallow visually. If their man gains 10, 20 pounds, they don't care as much. But I've been with women over the years when my weight fluctuated, and they're definitely more interested physically when I am in really great shape.

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

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.

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