Hank Azaria famous quotes

[Kids] are just like annoying short people
-- Hank Azaria

#Kids #People #Short People

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.
-- Hank Azaria

#School #College #People

I bartended for a catering company for two or three years.
-- Hank Azaria

#Two #Years #Three

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

#Dad #Father #Advice

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.
-- Hank Azaria

#Laughing #Guy #Lists

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.
-- Hank Azaria

#Silly #Character #Voice

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.
-- Hank Azaria

#Thinking #Class #Two

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

#Jobs #Training #Job Training

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
-- Hank Azaria

#Song #Voice #Asking

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

#Animation #Performances

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.
-- Hank Azaria

#Hurt #Mean #Men

I would love to do Broadway again.
-- Hank Azaria

#Broadway

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

#Working It #Very Happy

I've done literally 100, 150 different characters.
-- Hank Azaria

#Character #Different #Done

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.
-- Hank Azaria

#Character #Lines #Sound

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.
-- Hank Azaria

#Motivation #Real #Character

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

#Men #Pounds #Care

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

#Littles #Stink

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

#Six #Week #Really Great

It's not really difficult to go from one voice into the next.
-- Hank Azaria

#Voice #Next #Difficult

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

#Laughing #Comedian #Easy

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.
-- Hank Azaria

#Growing Up #Actors #Able

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.
-- Hank Azaria

#School #Play #Students

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

#Work Out #Monsters #Godzilla

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

#Want #Made

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.
-- Hank Azaria

#Dance #Kids #Crafts

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.
-- Hank Azaria

#Divorce #Moon #Trying

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.
-- Hank Azaria

#Class #Two #Focus

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

#Children #Silly #Voice

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

#Years #Firsts #Remember

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

#Tvs #Kind

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

#Hollywood #Naked #Niche

I love acting, but I want to explore other things.
-- Hank Azaria

#Acting #Want

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.
-- Hank Azaria

#Weekend #Watches #Currents

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.
-- Hank Azaria

#Real #Loss #Grieving