Words matter. These are the best Hank Azaria Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
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.
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.
You have to always physicalize, when you do animation recording. Otherwise, you won’t get the performance right.
I don’t really remember much about the ’60s at all. You know, 1970 is the first year I remember pretty well.
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.’
Godzilla’s a monster for the ’90s. He’s been working out.
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.
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.
When you’re on a series that’s been cancelled, there’s a little bit of a stink on you.
I joke that my niche in Hollywood has been naked foreigners.
Just watching Jack Lemmon made me want to get into this business.
When you do well in a movie that’s seen as really great, you’re revitalized for six weeks.
I’m very happy I get to keep working – it’s an insanely fortunate thing.
There’s no experience like on-the-job training.
I have no new voices – they’ve all been used.
I had kind of sworn off network TV a while ago.
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.’
I’ve done literally 100, 150 different characters.
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.
Women are, in general, less shallow visually. If their man gains 10, 20 pounds, they don’t care as much.
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.
It’s not really difficult to go from one voice into the next.
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.
It’s always impressive when talented comedians are easy laughers or generous with their laughs.
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’ve been doing silly voices since I was a child.
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.
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.
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.
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.
