Hank Azaria Quotes

My primary responsibility is to be funny.

It's really challenging to play comedy.

A comedian's body is funny as well as his mind being funny, his whole personage is funny.

I would love to do a comedy, and I think physical comedy is something I probably have a knack on.

Whatever I did, I always gravitated toward trying to be funny. If I was with friends, we were joking around. If I wrote for the newspaper, it would be a humor column. If I acted, I wanted to do comedy.

I'm not a comedian. I'm an actor who just happens to be funny on occasion.

Some actors try to play parts and do things they can't do. Being funny is one of them. Being funny's hard.

In comedy, my strengths are improvisation.

I'm a terrific mimic, and you can feel my funny bone.

I would love to do some more comedy. I would love to do some silliness. I would love to do some characters that have greater vulnerability.

There's an art to stupid comedy. There's an art to offensive comedy, and I think the key is it's just gotta make you laugh.

I have a lot of funny friends, and we joke a lot, but I've never really played comedic parts.

Comedians are not usually actors, but imitations of actors.

I just want to be funny, I just want to do comedy.

Comedy scares me a lot. I feel like it's way harder than drama. I think my safety net is definitely drama, and I would love to kind of be able to be able to push into the comedy world and do something kind of like a Christopher Guest kind of style show. That, to me, is my kind of comedy. Like, Ricky Gervais comedy. That's my kind of thing.

Yes, it's true, I've been called the Laurence Olivier of spoofs. I guess that would make Laurence Olivier the Leslie Nielsen of Shakespeare.

I have deep comedic roots, and I want to be funny.

Cool is the enemy of funny. You can't be cool and be funny at the same time. Only Eddie Murphy could do that.

My ultimate is Peter Sellers - his ability to go broad and somehow humanize that and be hilarious at the same time. He was just relatable, real at the same time as insane. I find Ricky Gervais absolutely hilarious. Steve Martin is another hero of mine - he's a genius.

I don't get a chance to be funny with the thrillers. I like to be funny, and I think I am really funny. So with 'Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life', it was fun to let loose.

Chris Farley, I was a huge fan of his growing up. I would love to do something kind of slapstick and funny, maybe where I could change my look even a little bit.

I love physical comedy. I adore comedy of any kind.

I always approach comedy roles pretending they aren't funny.

I don't do comedy so much although I would like to do a comedy.

I don't really need to be dirty to be funny.