Hank Azaria

“I've done literally 100, 150 different characters. Some of them have only appeared for a line or three. But the point is, every sound I can make has been harvested.”

“I've been divorced and I had to get back out there be single again and do some of that in the genuinely miserable state where you really do wonder what the hell is going on. And you feel like trying to have casual conversation with someone you don't know on the surface of the moon or something.”

“I had kind of sworn off network TV a while ago.”

“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.”

“I bartended for a catering company for two or three years.”

“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.”

“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 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.”

“I don't really remember much about the '60s at all. You know, 1970 is the first year I remember pretty well.”

“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.”

“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.”

“I joke that my niche in Hollywood has been naked foreigners.”

“I've done literally 100, 150 different characters.”

“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.”

“I'm very happy I get to keep working - it's an insanely fortunate thing.”

“I ask for a lot of advice from different fathers - all kinds of dads.”

“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.”

“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.”

“I have no new voices - they've all been used.”