Top 25 H. Jon Benjamin Quotes

Cute girls and burgers. What more can you ask for? That’s why we live in America.

I think, to a degree, I’m maybe more suited for voice work. And I don’t just mean my face and body. Because maybe there’s something about what I do that just, for some reason, is better to just hear me.

I’ve learned to wait ’til an idea is worth making. That’s not really a lesson I’ve learned; I sort of always did it that way. But there’s no reason or need to make videos prior to when you make a show, because then you need material for it.

I sing a little bit, yeah. But I sing very poorly.

I sweat a lot.

For me, performing isn’t really particularly difficult.

Writing is the hardest for me. It doesn’t come as naturally as the other forms, and I feel far more dread during the process. Acting and voice acting are more mercurial and maybe come a little easier to me.

I’m not opposed to putting myself in danger for meaningless comedy.

I was a teenager when ‘Miami Vice’ came out, and that was such a huge show.

I actually walk through Washington Square Park a lot.

‘Bob’s Burgers’ is done with the cast all together – not necessarily all together: some are in L.A. and some are in New York, but we’re hearing each other. So scenes are performed as a group. And ‘Archer’ is just me alone in a booth.

Incompetent and relentless are the worst combination of qualities.

I remember on ‘Dr. Katz,’ there was no script really at all. There were just scene outlines.

I’ve never worked for a show or was on a show where I didn’t have a lot of control creatively, but then again, I haven’t worked on a lot of shows.

I’m something of a foodie, I guess, and I’m a big Chinese food fan.

Voice actors I used to know who were starting out in comedy were guys who did a lot of voices. They were usually comedy actors who developed their comedy by doing tons of impressions and voices that were usually very funny. And I never did any of that, so that’s, I guess, why I don’t consider myself a voice actor.

I started doing comedy with no plan to do voice work. Voice work came as a function of doing comedy and meeting people who eventually develop shows like that. I didn’t seek out from an early age to be on cartoons.

I need to lose some weight. I’m getting really fat. But I’m getting older, and I just can’t stop eating wonderful food. Rich, wonderful food.

I had no intention of ever doing voice-overs. I wasn’t opposed to them; I just didn’t have any particular knowledge of how or why people do that.

I don’t consider myself a very good actor. I’m not bad, but there’s not a lot of range in characterizations for me.

I wasn’t classically trained as an actor; I wasn’t pursuing standup comedy. I really came into it through the back door. And there was a benefit to that, I think, because I wasn’t pressing; I wasn’t pushing.

I worked in restaurants, and I worked in the Cambridge Public Library.

David Wain’s character on ‘Bob’s Burgers’ is really funny and silly and makes me laugh.

My foray into comedy was to avoid getting a job.

I worked a lot on ‘Conan’ as an actor, and when I moved to New York, a lot of my friends were on the first staff of that show. I started doing bit parts, which was the first thing I’d done on camera in front of a live audience.