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Hank Azaria

(1964) Television Actor United States

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Hank Azaria is a television actor from the United States, best known for If These Walls Could Talk : New York Mets.

Quick Facts About Hank Azaria

Born: April 25, 1964
Nationality: United States
Profession: Television Actor
Notable works: If These Walls Could Talk : New York Mets
Known for: The Simpsons, The Birdcage
Spouse: Helen Hunt

About Hank Azaria

Henry Albert Azaria is an American actor and producer. He is known for voicing many characters in the animated sitcom The Simpsons since 1989, including Moe Szyslak, Chief Wiggum, Superintendent Chalmers, Comic Book Guy, Snake, Professor Frink, Kirk Van Houten, Duffman, Apu Nahasapeemapetilon, Lou, and Carl Carlson, among others. Azaria joined the show with little voice acting experience, but became a regular in its second season. For his work on the show, he has won four Primetime Emmy Awards.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Awards & Honors

Annie Award Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie Theatre World Award Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Character Voice-Over Performance

Quotes by Hank Azaria

I've always been a fan of plain writing. I hate metaphor-laden, heavily larded, lyrical writing.

Fans

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I say with pride that I've done over a hundred voices or something, and some of them may have only had two…

Done

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I think the reason the Golden Age of television is so golden is because a lot of folks are willing to let…

Age

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I've done literally 100, 150 different characters. Some of them have only appeared for a line or three. But the point is,…

Character

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I just really committed to trying to never repeat myself. I'd seen actors do that on films, and I was, like, "I…

Committed

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I did a lot of theater in college, and I knew that not many people make it, but I just figured, 'Well,…

Acting

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

Business

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

Happenings

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

Experience

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Even trying it as an actor, I never thought I'd actually make it.

Actors

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

Actors

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I've been doing silly voices since I was a child.

Children

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

Fortunate

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

Family

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I was hedging my bets by the time I got to college. I was interested in drama and journalism and psychology.

College

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

Care

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The Iraq War. No one took to the streets over it. It certainly would have been appropriate. If anybody even hinted we…

Anybody

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I put a tremendous amount of pressure on myself. I felt like I shouldn't have to audition for anything and all that.…

Amount

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Getting over someone is a grieving process. You mourn the loss of the relationship, and that's only expedited by 'Out of sight,…

Billboards

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

Great

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A lot of times, when I record with a group, I'll stay after class for another hour or two and go, 'Let…

Bunch

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I've done literally 100, 150 different characters.

Character

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Godzilla's a monster for the '90s. He's been working out.

Godzilla

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Being funny with a funny voice is more my comfort zone, a broader character that I try to humanize, a kind of…

Being funny

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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…

Asking

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