Hank Azaria

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.

I love acting, but I want to explore other things.

There's no experience like on-the-job training.

You know those award shows. The cliche is that it's an honor just to be nominated, but that happens to be true. Whoever wins it in the end, I don't know, sometimes it feels arbitrary. Sometimes it feels like it's deserving.

I don't really remember much about the '60s at all. You know, 1970 is the first year I remember pretty well.

The Iraq War. No one took to the streets over it. It certainly would have been appropriate. If anybody even hinted we should... you were called un-American and not supporting the troops.

When I was young in L.A. and I couldn't get into clubs or restaurants, I would call imitating celebrities and get a table, and it would work often. I was either Stallone or Mickey Rourke: 'This is Sly. I may be late, but my buddy Hank will be there early.'

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.

When you're on a series that's been cancelled, there's a little bit of a stink on you.

When you do well in a movie that's seen as really great, you're revitalized for six weeks.

I bartended for a catering company for two or three years.

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.

I joke that my niche in Hollywood has been naked foreigners.

Women are, in general, less shallow visually. If their man gains 10, 20 pounds, they don't care as much.

I ask for a lot of advice from different fathers - all kinds of dads.

I've done literally 100, 150 different characters.

I have no new voices - they've all been used.

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.'

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.

It's not really difficult to go from one voice into the next.

It's always impressive when talented comedians are easy laughers or generous with their laughs.

I've been divorced and I had to get back out there be single again and do some of that in the genuinely miserable state where you really do wonder what the hell is going on. And you feel like trying to have casual conversation with someone you don't know on the surface of the moon or something.

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.

I'm very happy I get to keep working - it's an insanely fortunate thing.

I would love to do Broadway again.