Latest Hank Azaria Quotes from Interviews

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• I say with pride that I've done over a hundred voices or something, and some of them may have only had two or three lines, but I literally never ran out. I think I'm a bit of a savant that way. I kind of remember every voice I hear, famous or otherwise, and can imitate it pretty fast. I've enjoyed mimicking people famous and not famous all through my life, and they kind of remain in the memory banks, so I'm ready to trot them out.

  Hank Azaria

  Memories, Pride, Thinking

• I just really committed to trying to never repeat myself. I'd seen actors do that on films, and I was, like, "I wanna try that once!" Ultimately, I'm much more in the school of getting one or two versions that feel right, as opposed to going all over the map. But it's fun to exercise that once in awhile.

  Hank Azaria

  Fun, School, Exercise

• 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.

  Hank Azaria

  Thinking, Age, Muse

  Source: collider.com

• I guess I'm used to seeing actors, but rock musicians still hold a special magic for me.

  Hank Azaria

  Rocks, Magic, Special

  "The Hilarious Hank Azaria". Interview with Kathryn Hahn, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 28, 2014.

• You never know who's going to kill you until you meet them.

  Hank Azaria

  Knows

  Interview with Kathryn Hahn, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 28, 2014.

• 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.

  Hank Azaria

  Stars, Rocks, Rock Star

  Interview with Kathryn Hahn, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 28, 2014.

• That's a true actor's nightmare: "Improvise in British sign language. Go."

  Hank Azaria

  Actors, Sign Language, Nightmare

  "The Hilarious Hank Azaria". Interview with Kathryn Hahn, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 28, 2014.

• 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.

  Hank Azaria

  Energy, Pressure, Auditions

  Interview with Kathryn Hahn, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 28, 2014.

• I was hedging my bets by the time I got to college. I was interested in drama and journalism and psychology.

  Hank Azaria

  Drama, College, Psychology

  "The Hilarious Hank Azaria". Interview with Kathryn Hahn, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 28, 2014.

• Even trying it as an actor, I never thought I'd actually make it.

  Hank Azaria

  Trying, Actors

  "The Hilarious Hank Azaria". Interview with Kathryn Hahn, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 28, 2014.

• In gay culture hookups are a way of escaping your class.

  Hank Azaria

  Gay, Escaping, Class

  Source: www.believermag.com

• I guess for me the greatest injustice is to see people robbed of that interiority and process of association.

  Hank Azaria

  People, Association, Injustice

  Source: www.believermag.com

• A self-help book can't really address a problem unless it's individualized. It's not going to talk about a globalized problem.

  Hank Azaria

  Book, Self, Addresses

  Source: www.believermag.com

• 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.

  Hank Azaria

  People, World, Association

  Source: www.believermag.com

• I've always been a fan of plain writing. I hate metaphor-laden, heavily larded, lyrical writing.

  Hank Azaria

  Hate, Writing, Fans

  Source: www.believermag.com

• Literally, I see my writing as transcription - a transcription of what I see, hear, think, live.

  Hank Azaria

  Writing, Thinking, Transcription

  Source: www.believermag.com

• 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.

  Hank Azaria

  Moving, Book, Writing

  Source: www.believermag.com

• Once someone is in your family orbit, there's a mutual responsibility, and whatever happens to them happens to you.

  Hank Azaria

  Responsibility, Orbit, Our Family

  Source: www.believermag.com

• 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.

  Hank Azaria

  Cousin, People, Population

  Source: www.believermag.com

• When you become deeply involved with someone, their problems become yours, and vice versa. It's family.

  Hank Azaria

  Vices, Problem, Vice Versa

  Source: www.believermag.com

• Politics is topical - it's what's happening now, and we can either respond in the present or avoid it.

  Hank Azaria

  Happenings

  Source: www.believermag.com