A biography for H. Jon Benjaminhasn’t been written yet.
“I never pursued acting with, like, auditions. If anything, I was given roles by people who knew me and liked what I did.”
“My foray into comedy was to avoid getting a job.”
“It feels like animation has a little more independence than traditional sitcoms ever did.”
“If you do nothing long enough, something's bound to happen.”
“I remember on 'Dr. Katz,' there was no script really at all. There were just scene outlines.”
“For me, performing isn't really particularly difficult.”
“I sing a little bit, yeah. But I sing very poorly.”
“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 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 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.”
“I am recognized a lot for 'Master of None.' It seems like that show really touched a cultural nerve in a good way.”
“It's physically hard for me to work. I start to break down, physically. My joints start. I get weepy eyes. I don't sleep well. I was never a hard worker, I guess. So the voiceover work ethic is really great for me - couple days a month, two hours a day.”
“I'm not opposed to putting myself in danger for meaningless comedy.”
“I'm something of a foodie, I guess, and I'm a big Chinese food fan.”
“It's mainly been the case where I do very few live action roles - not out of choice but more out of not getting asked.”
“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 think the personal stories that I tell in my life, I think, sort of do add up to say that you can fail and fail and fail again and continue to move forward.”
“I worked in restaurants, and I worked in the Cambridge Public Library.”
“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.”
“Cute girls and burgers. What more can you ask for? That's why we live in America.”