Will Arnett

“I'm a dad first and foremost, then it goes hockey and then work, in that order.”

“I know that my kids are big 'Turtles' fans because there's been this resurgence, especially with the new series on Nickelodeon.”

“No, Arrested Development was such an amazing experience in every way, and you know it was very unique in that it was a show that received a lot of critical acclaim, and yet we didn't ever achieve the ratings that we wanted.”

“Because 'Gob' was a terrible magician, he was always, in great comedic moments, messing up his magic act. We used to have magicians come in to work on these tricks to actually get them wrong. But they still had to work. We had to bring magicians on to make magic not work.”

“You meet lots of people in your life, and sometimes you think that people are a certain way, and then they reveal themselves to be a different way.”

“Pure unadulterated success is not as funny as failure.”

“What came out of 'The LEGO Movie' was the idea of 'Batman's the Dark Knight', so why is he so moody? What's going on? Why is he so banged up? And wouldn't it be fun to get in there and explore that?”

“Yeah, you know, within the context of TV families, these are pretty unsavory characters.”

“I'm a huge Toronto Maple Leafs fan, and the only other teams whose games I go to are the Rangers and the Kings.”

“If you have a character that doesn't have anything wrong with him, there's nothing funny about it. The idea of the straight man is very important. But I'd rather it be somebody else, because it's not as fun.”

“The voice for 'Surly' is, of course, very close to my own voice, but it's informed a lot by this story, by the arc and the animation and working with the whole creative team on 'The Nut Job' in finding what really works.”

“I am happy because I'm grateful. I choose to be grateful. That gratitude allows me to be happy.”

“This pilot, by far, was the best I ever read - and I hope that insults every other pilot I worked on.”

“I mean, I gotta say one of the greatest victories on that show was when we got picked up for the back nine of the first season, and they made it a full order.”

“I think that when I was in my 20s, I wanted to go after dramatic roles, and I didn't have a tremendous amount of success with that. I kind of backed my way into comedic parts. When you're young, you kind of take yourself seriously, and you think, like, 'People need to see what I can do.' And it's so laughable, especially with actors.”

“There's a lot of lying and these are people who are incredibly flawed, and not in very sort of empathetic ways, either. Some of the things they do are pretty awful and some of the things they do to each other are pretty awful.”

“I pretty much choose anything I do in life based on whether or not I can work in my PJs. Certainly one of the perks of doing an animated film is that you don't have to go and get ready and wear wardrobe, and you just show up in whatever you're wearing.”

“One of the greatest punsters of all time, Peter Serafinowicz, is a good friend of mine, and I've been in situations more than once where people have been exhausted hanging around with him.”

“Everything's not black and white. We choose to make bad decisions or not.”

“Because I think a lot of people felt like, ultimately - and this isn't the first time I've said this, so I'll bore you again with it - but ultimately it was... I think it felt like homework a bit for people.”