In gay culture hookups are a way of escaping your class. by Hank Azaria

In gay culture hookups are a way of escaping your class.

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It's not really difficult to go from one voice into the next. It's like asking you to sing a line of Happy Birthday and then Goodnight Irene - assuming you know the words to both those songs

voice asking song

When you become deeply involved with someone, their problems become yours, and vice versa. It's family.

vice-versa problem vices

I say with pride that I've done over a hundred voices or something, and some of them may have only had two or three lines, but I literally never ran out. I think I'm a bit of a savant that way. I kind of remember every voice I hear, famous or otherwise, and can imitate it pretty fast. I've enjoyed mimicking people famous and not famous all through my life, and they kind of remain in the memory banks, so I'm ready to trot them out.

pride memories thinking

Historically, there would always be people among the general population who had family members, friends, cousins who'd done time or who'd been in prison.

cousin population people

Getting over someone is a grieving process. You mourn the loss of the relationship, and that's only expedited by 'Out of sight, out of mind.' But when you walk outside and see them on a billboard or on TV or on the cover of a magazine, it reopens the wound. It's a high-class problem, but it's real.

real loss grieving

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

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

job-training training jobs

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

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

niche naked hollywood

Once someone is in your family orbit, there's a mutual responsibility, and whatever happens to them happens to you.

our-family orbit responsibility

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.

[Kids] are just like annoying short people by Hank Azaria

[Kids] are just like annoying short people

short-people kids people

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

remember years firsts

Politics is topical - it's what's happening now, and we can either respond in the present or avoid it.

I had kind of sworn off network TV a while ago. by Hank Azaria

I had kind of sworn off network TV a while ago.

I love acting, but I want to explore other things. by Hank Azaria

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

Just watching Jack Lemmon made me want to get into this business. by Hank Azaria

Just watching Jack Lemmon made me want to get into this business.

I put a tremendous amount of pressure on myself. I felt like I shouldn't have to audition for anything and all that. And that energy did not serve me at all.

auditions energy pressure

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.

currents weekend watches

I bartended for a catering company for two or three years... by Hank Azaria

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

three two years

I ask for a lot of advice from different fathers - all kinds of d... by Hank Azaria

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

dad advice father

That's a true actor's nightmare: "Improvise in British sign langu... by Hank Azaria

That's a true actor's nightmare: "Improvise in British sign language. Go."

sign-language nightmare actors