63 Thought-Provoking Quotes By Hank Azaria
Hank Azaria is an American comedian, actor and producer. He has earned a ‘Screen Actors Guild Award’ and six ‘Emmy Awards’ for his phenomenal work. He has also lent his voice to a number of characters in ‘The Simpsons.’ Some of his noteworthy film and television credits include ‘Along Came Polly,’ ‘The Smurfs,’ ‘The Birdcage,’ ‘Run Fatboy Run,’ ‘Shattered Glass,’ ‘The Smurf’s 2,’ ‘Friends,’ ‘Huff,’ ‘Mad About You,’ and more. He earned a ‘Tony Award’ nomination for ‘Spamalot.’ Zoom through the list of famous sayings by Hank Azaria on responsibility, loss, time, memories, character, voice, people, Hollywood, growing-up, Broadway, acting, will, experience, war, movies, comedy, woman, focus, performance and more.
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[Kids] are just like annoying short people
You never know who's going to kill you until you meet them.
When you become deeply involved with someone, their problems become yours, and vice versa. It's family.
That's a true actor's nightmare: "Improvise in British sign language. Go."
Politics is topical - it's what's happening now, and we can either respond in the present or avoid it.
Once someone is in your family orbit, there's a mutual responsibility, and whatever happens to them happens to you.
Literally, I see my writing as transcription - a transcription of what I see, hear, think, live.
In gay culture hookups are a way of escaping your class.
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've always been a fan of plain writing. I hate metaphor-laden, heavily larded, lyrical writing.
I was hedging my bets by the time I got to college. I was interested in drama and journalism and psychology.
I think the reason the Golden Age of television is so golden is because a lot of folks are willing to let creators do their thing and live or die by their own muse. They certainly allow us to do that.
I put a tremendous amount of pressure on myself. I felt like I shouldn't have to audition for anything and all that. And that energy did not serve me at all.
I guess I'm used to seeing actors, but rock musicians still hold a special magic for me.
I guess for me the greatest injustice is to see people robbed of that interiority and process of association.
Historically, there would always be people among the general population who had family members, friends, cousins who'd done time or who'd been in prison.
Even trying it as an actor, I never thought I'd actually make 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.
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.
A self-help book can't really address a problem unless it's individualized. It's not going to talk about a globalized problem.
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.
You have to always physicalize, when you do animation recording. Otherwise, you won't get the performance right.
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.
Women are, in general, less shallow visually. If their man gains 10, 20 pounds, they don't care as much.
When you're on a series that's been cancelled, there's a little bit of a stink on you.
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.
When you do well in a movie that's seen as really great, you're revitalized for six weeks.
There's no experience like on-the-job training.
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.
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.
