As much as you do get beat-up doing even small action sequences, it's incredibly fun. Ed Helms More Quotes by Ed Helms More Quotes From Ed Helms You see a lot of sides of people on a movie set because it can be really taxing and to kind of go through all that together - you really get to know someone. Ed Helms together sides people What's cool is that in the story of the movie [The Hangover] our characters are also really kind of getting to know each other and bonding over the course of the movie. And I think you're seeing a real, a literal sort of friendship growing both in us as actors and on screen as characters. Ed Helms hangover real character Let's just say it was damn hard [to make the Hangover]. I've got the bumps and bruises to show for it. It's funny because things that don't even look that bad on screen were still extremely painful. Ed Helms bruises hangover bumps [Chickens] are very frenetic. So if you think about it and you look back in other movies, like if someone's taking a crazy bus ride somewhere and it's like, 'Oh, what makes this bus ride crazy?' There's a chicken in the aisle, or like there's a chicken in a crate. So I just think the presence of chickens makes things crazy. Ed Helms crazy looks thinking The improv stuff, that's always surprising so a lot of times that's really funny. Ed Helms surprising stuff I love travel. I love to go spend time in new places. And even though I got horribly sick in Thailand, and it was the sickest I may have ever been in my life, I still loved the trip. Ed Helms thailand sick may As a hobbyist, there's something about miniature anything that captures my imagination. Ed Helms miniatures capture imagination A lot of kind of like the way that Andy [Bernard] talks, you know, the writers pick up on those things - little moments that I inject and then they start to write it in later. It's hard to say if a whole storyline is spun out of an improv. I feel like it has happened on The Office, I just can't think of it. Ed Helms office writing thinking I told personal stories the way [Bill] Cosby would spin a yarn for ten minutes. I think in hindsight it works better as a long story than as a condensed monologue. Ed Helms yarn long thinking The biggest thing that comes out of improv that gets built on is just character traits. You know, for me the singing was born out of improv. Ed Helms born singing character Sometimes you just create a joke out of thin air in the editing room. I'm really glad I've had that experience. It gives me a little more confidence in front of the camera. Ed Helms glad sometimes giving It's a very collaborative environment [making The Office]. We always do takes of how it's scripted, but then we also mix it up a lot too. And it's kind of a crapshoot, you never know which one... I mean a lot of time improvisation doesn't go anywhere and it's not good at all but, so what was written is often times better. Ed Helms office kind mean I'm sort of laughing and so Zach [ Galifianakis] started laughing [on the set of The Hangover]. And Todd [Phillips] was baffled because what we were saying wasn't that funny, you know what I mean? And it was like all the baby's face. So Todd was like, 'What is going on? Get it together guys.' Ed Helms hangover baby mean I'm sure I cause just as much consternation for editors as any other actor, it definitely makes me feel more comfortable understanding how and why all the different camera setups exist. Ed Helms different understanding There are certain relationships in our lives that implode, and it can feel really inexplicable and terrifying. You don't know why, and sometimes relationships end for reasons that one person keeps from the other person, and it's just totally unclear, and it just goes south and it's heartbreaking. Ed Helms heartbreaking reason sometimes It was never tough [ being the new guy]. It's just the warmest group of people [The Office stuff] you could ever hope to work with. Ed Helms guy office people God bless him, I mean a lot of times you get non-actors on a set and they get really self-conscious, especially when doing something crazy like singing along with Phil Collins. They get sort of reserved and self-conscious. Mike [Tyson] completely trusted Todd [Phillips] and totally put everything into it. Ed Helms crazy self mean This word gets overused in describing actors but I think it applies to Mike [Tyson] in this case - he was totally fearless. He jumped in and played with us comedically and improvised a lot. A lot of jokes in those scenes with him are from him improvising. Ed Helms fearless actors thinking As an editor, you're constantly dealing with the best way to convey an exchange between two people. So when I'm shooting, I'm just aware in the back of my head what an editor might want. Ed Helms people Todd [Phillips] doesn't care. That's part of his genius as a director, he will say anything to anybody. Ed Helms care say-anything directors
