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I would love to do Broadway again.
[Kids] are just like annoying short people
I have no new voices - they've all been used.
There's no experience like on-the-job training.
I had kind of sworn off network TV a while ago.
I've been doing silly voices since I was a child.
I've done literally 100, 150 different characters.
I love acting, but I want to explore other things.
In gay culture hookups are a way of escaping your class.
Godzilla's a monster for the '90s. He's been working out.
I bartended for a catering company for two or three years.
You never know who's going to kill you until you meet them.
I joke that my niche in Hollywood has been naked foreigners.
I bartended for a catering company for two or three years...
It's not really difficult to go from one voice into the next.
Just watching Jack Lemmon made me want to get into this business.
Even trying it as an actor, I never thought I'd actually make it.
I ask for a lot of advice from different fathers - all kinds of dads.
I'm very happy I get to keep working - it's an insanely fortunate thing.
That's a true actor's nightmare: "Improvise in British sign language. Go."
When you're on a series that's been cancelled, there's a little bit of a stink on you.
I guess I'm used to seeing actors, but rock musicians still hold a special magic for me.
When you do well in a movie that's seen as really great, you're revitalized for six weeks.
It's always impressive when talented comedians are easy laughers or generous with their laughs.
Literally, I see my writing as transcription - a transcription of what I see, hear, think, live.
I've always been a fan of plain writing. I hate metaphor-laden, heavily larded, lyrical writing.
Politics is topical - it's what's happening now, and we can either respond in the present or avoid it.
When you become deeply involved with someone, their problems become yours, and vice versa. It's family.
Women are, in general, less shallow visually. If their man gains 10, 20 pounds, they don't care as much.
I was hedging my bets by the time I got to college. I was interested in drama and journalism and psychology.
I don't really remember much about the '60s at all. You know, 1970 is the first year I remember pretty well.
I guess for me the greatest injustice is to see people robbed of that interiority and process of association.
You have to always physicalize, when you do animation recording. Otherwise, you won't get the performance right.
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.
Once someone is in your family orbit, there's a mutual responsibility, and whatever happens to them happens to you.
I wore a thong and a bra and a wig. Those things hurt. I mean, thongs? Like, they dig in. It takes a tough man to be a woman.
A self-help book can't really address a problem unless it's individualized. It's not going to talk about a globalized problem.
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.
Guys will definitely settle for women who get the joke. But a woman who can make you laugh? It's not high on a guy's must list. Perhaps it should be.
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.
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 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 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.
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.
When you mimic everyone, sometimes authority figures really don't appreciate it which is not an original story. And pretty much every comedian has some tale of that.
The craft Emmys are kind of the kids table at Thanksgiving. You're not really invited to the big dance. It's still really, really exciting, and the statue still counts.
The craft Emmys are kind of the kids' table at Thanksgiving. You're not really invited to the big dance. It's still really, really exciting, and the statue still counts.
A lot of times, when I record with a group, I'll stay after class for another hour or two and go, 'Let me try a bunch of things I was thinking of, as you were doing that.'
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.
You know, I was a huge fan of comedy and movies and TV growing up, and I was able to memorize and mimic a lot of things, not realizing that that meant I probably wanted to be an actor.