Latest Neil Patrick Harris Quotes from Interviews

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• Coming at the acting business as a technician, I really enjoy the process of working. I really enjoy being in a rehearsal room, starting a theatre piece for the first time. I really enjoy shooting in front of the crew, and I really love going on location. I think all that is just so exciting. So I've never really been drawn into the fame of being an actor, which in L.A., is part and parcel of the deal. I think for a lot of people, especially kids, it's hard to not get wrapped up in the world of the perks that the job brings.

  Neil Patrick Harris

  Kids, Thinking, People

  Source: tv.avclub.com

• I find myself acting for an editor more, because there's a quick turnaround with television, so you want to try and seem like you're as frenetic as possible, while replicating your movement so you're giving the editor more opportunity to cut within the different takes. If you're so crazy that you're sitting in one take and standing in another, the editor can only choose one take or the other. But if you can wrangle yourself into the same spot over and over, then you give them more choices for you.

  Neil Patrick Harris

  Crazy, Cutting, Opportunity

  Source: tv.avclub.com

• I still audition a lot - it depends on the medium. For film, I audition just like everyone else, because it's a different set of casting directors. For television and theatre - well, for theater, there's some auditioning that has to happen, just for them to know that you can sing it, and how you'd take on the part. But for TV, things are getting a little better with, "Would you like to be a part of this?" But that's really for one - night things. It sounds like a pompous answer, if I say people are calling me to ask me to do things.

  Neil Patrick Harris

  Night, People, Theatre

  Source: tv.avclub.com

• I love physical stuff. I love circusy, weird, breathing fire and bucket-listy things.

  Neil Patrick Harris

  Breathing, Fire, Stuff

  Source: www.avclub.com

• I did enjoy singing the song, called "The Count", which is Count Olaf's big song that he sings to the kids when they first arrive with his henchpeople. He wrote it himself, and he thinks he's really, really talented, and it's a terrible song. So we had to learn intentionally bad choreography... We did these almost Lady Gaga-ish kind of movements, which were just awful, but that made me laugh

  Neil Patrick Harris

  Song, Kids, Thinking

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

• That movie [A Series of Unfortunate Events] told four books in two hours, and we have two hours per book. So we have eight hours to tell four books, and if people watch we'll get to tell more of them. There's only thirteen books, so there's only going to be two more seasons, but that allows for a lot of time to be in character and to maintain character.

  Neil Patrick Harris

  Book, Character, Two

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

• I like [Count] Olaf's wardrobe, because the whole thing seems like it should be a period piece in many ways, and yet the date is non-specific. So I would wear cloaks and jackets, but also turtlenecks. I was a little beatnik, and kind of hipster in that way.

  Neil Patrick Harris

  Hipster, Littles, Olaf

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

• The hardest part of playing the villain was the prosthetics, because I couldn't really move my face as much as I wanted to, and yet I had to move my face a lot. If I moved my face in certain ways the prosthetics would come apart, so I could do a lot of eyebrow acting, but I couldn't do a lot of nose lifting, or the corners of the nose would pop out.

  Neil Patrick Harris

  Moving, Eyebrows, Acting

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

• Playing a villain was fun, only because you get to do all the things you wouldn't normally do in your real life.

  Neil Patrick Harris

  Fun, Real, Real Life

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

• The makeup [for Count Olaf] took about two and a half hours every morning. The meditation was another hour and a half. I would eat a big breakfast - that was probably 45 minutes. And then it was lunch.

  Neil Patrick Harris

  Morning, Makeup, Two

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

• As I learned from chapters past, it's important to try and stay in the chapter that you're in, and enjoy it while it's lasting. Not be constantly worrying about where this step will take you - living in the potential future. Like a good meal. Like a good chef's tasting meal. You don't want to wonder what's next while you're eating the foie gras.

  Neil Patrick Harris

  Past, Worry, Important

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. September 16, 2008.

• I'm wildly impressed with the diversity of gay roles.

  Neil Patrick Harris

  Gay, Diversity, Roles

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. September 16, 2008.

• I sort of pride myself in my dissatisfaction with my work. I've always been concerned with buying the hype, and having that make your performances suffer.

  Neil Patrick Harris

  Pride, Hype, Suffering

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. September 16, 2008.

• If I'm doing some weird tick with my mouth, or not standing still or something, I'll be the first person to notice it, and then want to change that. I think it's important just to maintain trajectory, to not just use your same tricks over and over.

  Neil Patrick Harris

  Thinking, Important, Use

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, tv.avclub.com. September 16, 2008.

• You have to be careful when you're doing an interview.

  Neil Patrick Harris

  Interviews, Be Careful, Careful

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. September 16, 2008.

• I feel like with actors wanting to direct, you really only have a shot or two. You can't just make a bunch of little independent movies, and then finally one gets noticed. You have to make a really good one right away.

  Neil Patrick Harris

  Independent, Two, Actors

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, tv.avclub.com. September 16, 2008.

• I'm very interested in starting to produce, and direct, and have an umbrella over an entire project in the future. I'd like to have control over what the characters do. I think as an actor, you get a little too caught up in the moment-to-moment, beat-to-beat stuff to have perspective.

  Neil Patrick Harris

  Character, Thinking, Perspective

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, tv.avclub.com. September 16, 2008.

• I have actual strong ideas. You just have to wait for the right timing. Timing is pretty crucial here. I can't dedicate a lot of energy and efforts trying to, say, create a show that I want to produce while I'm currently on another show.

  Neil Patrick Harris

  Strong, Ideas, Effort

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. September 16, 2008.

• For film, I audition just like everyone else, because it's a different set of casting directors.

  Neil Patrick Harris

  Directors, Different, Casting

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. September 16, 2008.

• Love is awesome and endless, but it is constantly changing its form. You love something for what it is, then it changes. But that change can make you love it even more.

  Neil Patrick Harris

  Love Is, Form, Endless

  "Q & Andy: Neil Patrick Harris". Interview with Andy Warhol, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 18, 2015.

• When you have twin four-year-olds, you are able to dance like a fool, often. And I do.

  Neil Patrick Harris

  Years, Able, Fool

  "Q & Andy: Neil Patrick Harris". Interview with Andy Warhol, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 18, 2015.

• I'd love to be some sort of villain in a big-budget action movie. Or a superhero franchise. That'd be rad.

  Neil Patrick Harris

  Superhero, Rad, Action

  "Q & Andy: Neil Patrick Harris". Interview with Andy Warhol, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 18, 2015.

• I regret not dancing more, just cutting loose on the dance floor. I still admire those who don't care much about what others think of them.

  Neil Patrick Harris

  Regret, Cutting, Thinking

  "Q & Andy: Neil Patrick Harris". Interview with Andy Warhol, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 18, 2015.

• Babies just change everything. You have to become super-selfless and super-tired and super-amenable to change. They just change all the time.

  Neil Patrick Harris

  Baby, Tired, Selfless

  "Neil Patrick Harris' House Is Open for Trick-or-Treaters". Interview with Fred Topel, patch.com. October 31, 2011.

• I think flirting is great fun. It doesn't mean that anything's going to come of it but it's fun to be told that you're hot and that your tits look great. You all get your pens out.

  Neil Patrick Harris

  Fun, Mean, Flirting

  "Neil Patrick Harris Interview, A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas". Roundtable interview, www.moviesonline.ca.