Babies laughing is like opium. Neil Patrick Harris More Quotes by Neil Patrick Harris More Quotes From Neil Patrick Harris I have a very large forehead. I have a pronounced skull. Maybe producers think that there is a lot going on up in there. Neil Patrick Harris skullsproducersthinking I like the tube more than the NY subway though, you've got cushioned seats. Neil Patrick Harris tubesseatssubway I've got no plans to be a ballet dancer at the moment. Neil Patrick Harris dancerballetmoments It PASSED! Marriage equality in NY!! Yes!! Progress!! Thank you everyone who worked so hard on this!! A historic night! Neil Patrick Harris marriage-equalityprogressnight I don't stay up and rent private jets and go on yachts and whoop it up in Miami. Neil Patrick Harris private-jetmiamigoes-on I collect puppet stuff. I have a puppet workshop in my garage. I was looking for any opportunity to be able to get very creatively involved in that world. Neil Patrick Harris puppetsopportunityworld 'Smurfs' just seemed like a great way to represent a young father to be, guy in a marriage, work in conflict, and I was really interested in the technical CG side of things. I'd never done a movie that I thought would be so physical and yet so precise. So I was intrigued by all of that. Neil Patrick Harris guywould-befather Starship Troopers was great. It was great fun to work on something with blue screens and big budget special effects. Denise Richards was nice to look at too, of course. Neil Patrick Harris nicebluefun I don't know, but I think kids just want to be listened to, so I want to make sure I do that. Neil Patrick Harris wantkidsthinking I still audition a lot - it depends on the medium. For film, I audition just like everyone else, because it's a different set of casting directors. For television and theatre - well, for theater, there's some auditioning that has to happen, just for them to know that you can sing it, and how you'd take on the part. But for TV, things are getting a little better with, "Would you like to be a part of this?" But that's really for one - night things. It sounds like a pompous answer, if I say people are calling me to ask me to do things. Neil Patrick Harris theatrenightpeople Coming at the acting business as a technician, I really enjoy the process of working. I really enjoy being in a rehearsal room, starting a theatre piece for the first time. I really enjoy shooting in front of the crew, and I really love going on location. I think all that is just so exciting. So I've never really been drawn into the fame of being an actor, which in L.A., is part and parcel of the deal. I think for a lot of people, especially kids, it's hard to not get wrapped up in the world of the perks that the job brings. Neil Patrick Harris kidspeoplethinking I find myself acting for an editor more, because there's a quick turnaround with television, so you want to try and seem like you're as frenetic as possible, while replicating your movement so you're giving the editor more opportunity to cut within the different takes. If you're so crazy that you're sitting in one take and standing in another, the editor can only choose one take or the other. But if you can wrangle yourself into the same spot over and over, then you give them more choices for you. Neil Patrick Harris cuttingcrazyopportunity The makeup [for Count Olaf] took about two and a half hours every morning. The meditation was another hour and a half. I would eat a big breakfast - that was probably 45 minutes. And then it was lunch. Neil Patrick Harris makeupmorningtwo I love physical stuff. I love circusy, weird, breathing fire and bucket-listy things. Neil Patrick Harris breathingfirestuff I did enjoy singing the song, called "The Count", which is Count Olaf's big song that he sings to the kids when they first arrive with his henchpeople. He wrote it himself, and he thinks he's really, really talented, and it's a terrible song. So we had to learn intentionally bad choreography... We did these almost Lady Gaga-ish kind of movements, which were just awful, but that made me laugh Neil Patrick Harris songkidsthinking That movie [A Series of Unfortunate Events] told four books in two hours, and we have two hours per book. So we have eight hours to tell four books, and if people watch we'll get to tell more of them. There's only thirteen books, so there's only going to be two more seasons, but that allows for a lot of time to be in character and to maintain character. Neil Patrick Harris charactertwobook I like [Count] Olaf's wardrobe, because the whole thing seems like it should be a period piece in many ways, and yet the date is non-specific. So I would wear cloaks and jackets, but also turtlenecks. I was a little beatnik, and kind of hipster in that way. Neil Patrick Harris olafhipsterlittles Playing a villain was fun, only because you get to do all the things you wouldn't normally do in your real life. Neil Patrick Harris real-liferealfun The hardest part of playing the villain was the prosthetics, because I couldn't really move my face as much as I wanted to, and yet I had to move my face a lot. If I moved my face in certain ways the prosthetics would come apart, so I could do a lot of eyebrow acting, but I couldn't do a lot of nose lifting, or the corners of the nose would pop out. Neil Patrick Harris eyebrowsactingmoving I'd love to be some sort of villain in a big-budget action movie. Or a superhero franchise. That'd be rad. 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