Hank Azaria Quotes

• 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.

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• When you mimic everyone, sometimes authority figures really don’t appreciate it which is not an original story. And pretty much every comedian has some tale of that.

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• 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.

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• The ‘Family Ties’ role was the first of many gay roles that I’ve ended up playing. I remember that I made them laugh, and it made me feel good, ’cause it really cracked them up.

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• You know, 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.

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

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• 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.

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

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• 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.’

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• My ultimate is Peter Sellers – his ability to go broad and somehow humanize that and be hilarious at the same time. He was just relatable, real at the same time as insane. I find Ricky Gervais absolutely hilarious. Steve Martin is another hero of mine – he’s a genius.

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• 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.

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• It’s not really difficult to go from one voice into the next.

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

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

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

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• I’ve been doing silly voices since I was a child.

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Hank Azaria (16)

Birth:	25th April, 1964
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actor, Director

About

Hank Azaria is an American film, television and stage actor, director, producer, writer, voice actor, and comedian. He is noted for being one of the principal voice actors on the animated television series The Simpsons, on which he performs the voices of Moe Szyslak, Apu Nahasapeemapetilon, Chief Wiggum, Comic Book Guy, Carl Carlson and numerous others. Azaria, who attended Tufts University, joined the show with little voice acting experience, but became a regular in its second season

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• 1958 - Roy H. Williams
• 1971 - Lara Logan
• 1946 - Dennis Wolfberg
• 1949 - Pauline Marois
• 1958 - Victor Salva

Deaths

• 1878 - Mark Hopkins Jr.
• 1934 - Otto Hermann Kahn
• 2005 - Mitch Hedberg
• 1970 - Vera Brittain
• 1991 - Lee Atwater