Hank Azaria Quotes
It's always impressive when talented comedians are easy laughers or generous with their laughs.
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It's hard to make a good movie in four weeks. It's hard. I've done it, but it's not easy.
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Design in art, is a recognition of the relation between various things, various elements in the creative flux. You can't invent a design. You recognize it, in the fourth dimension. That is, with your blood and your bones, as well as with your eyes.
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I've had many a player tell me all through high school and right up until signing day that they were coming to Alabama, then they signed with somebody else.
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There are lots of wonderful old Italian actors. You don't need to take an Egyptian to play an Italian actor.
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Generally, what adults want to know is my background, why I write what I write, and very personal insights that some say are inspiring.
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If I'm daring at all, I guess it would be emotionally. I try to keep things interesting for myself and to do things that challenge me.
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Those seven years in the cloister were the key to my life.
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Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.
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A lot of times characters are combinations of people I come across in life. I people-watch a lot.
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NASA asked me to create meals for the space shuttle. Thai chicken was the favorite. I flew in a fake space shuttle, but I have no desire to go into space after seeing the toilet.
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Right now I'm doing four shows at a time, trying to read four outlines every week, four scripts every week, and watching four rough cuts; it's a lot of good work. It's fun to do it, but it does wear you out.
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Illinois surpasses every other spot of equal extent upon the face of the globe in fertility of soil and in the proportionable amount of the same which is sufficiently level for actual cultivation.
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Society is the body; individuals are its members, its limbs. Just as the various limbs help and co-operate with one another and thus are happy, so each must unite with others in being helpful to all in thought, speech and action... One may see to the good of one's own group, i.e., the group that is immediate to him, and then proceed to others.
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All companies that grow really big do so in only one way: people recommend the product or service to other people.
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I am not a sort of person who wants to run a company.
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What is our greatest enemy? Segregation.
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I wanted to be a writer first, and I struck out in the world to be a writer first, and then found stand-up as a more creative outlet, as a 3D way to be creative.
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The king died and then the queen died is a story. The king died, and then queen died of grief is a plot.
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From the first moment that I can remember, I had identified myself as a bass player and it had everything to do with my father, who was a bass player. And he loved music, you know, as much as anybody I've ever seen. And that dynamic I just thought as somehow was a straight pass to me.
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The hardest thing about being an unpublished writer is that there's always that voice in your head that asks if you're really being a fool. You might just really stink and not know it. You have to have a lot of blind faith in the process. You have to like it so much that you're going to do it anyway.
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Imagine a libertarian president challenging Congress to repeal the PATRIOT Act.
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You can see neurosis from below - as a sickness - as most psychiatrists see it. Or you can understand it as a compassionate man might: respecting the neurosis as a fumbling and inefficient effort toward good ends.
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For six months I'd do movies and make it all about me. Then the other six months, it's not about me and it doesn't matter what my hair looks like or what anything looks like.
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It's always impressive when talented comedians are easy laughers or generous with their laughs.
