Hank Azaria Quotes

When I was a kid, I was a fan of comedy. I always loved Steve Martin, Chevy Chase, Bill Murray, and Dave Letterman - not an actor, obviously, but I'm still impressed by his wit. I wanted to emulate them because they made me laugh.

My heroes were Gene Wilder, Steve Martin, and Martin Short.

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

My dad turned me onto Peter Sellers as a kid. I loved the fact that he was a unique combination of being extremely subtle and over-the-top all at the same time, and that's a hard thing to do. I admire that.

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.

It's really challenging to play comedy.

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.

Ever since I was a kid, I just loved those comedians on TV who would just have fun with the language.

I'm such a comedy fan that I just love laughing and so admire comedians who have brought me joy.

I would love to do something like Austin Powers to show off my comic timing.

Hey, I think comic actors are the best actors.

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

To do something funny, you have to have experienced it in real life and digested it in a way that amuses you.

Dame Edna is that rarest sighting in our time of the absolute comic, an inspired personification of caprice whose comedy answered the primal call to take the audience for a tumble.

Gene Wilder is so funny.

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

Drama comes more naturally to me. It's the comedy you really have to delve into.

To play the leading man in a 'Three Stooges' movie, you've got to think funny. Thank God I think funny.

I've always loved doing comedy.

Drama is easy. Comedy's hard.

Comedy-wise, I think Chris Elliott is one of the funniest people.

I have always had huge respect for comedians/comediennes. It's because comedy is very hard to portray.

I am genuinely interested in comedy and I know that I have good comic timing as well.

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