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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 me try a bunch of things I was thinking of, as you were doing that.' "
Thinking
Class
Doing
" Being funny with a funny voice is more my comfort zone, a broader character that I try to humanize, a kind of silly or wacky persona that I try to fill in. "
Character
Comfort Zone
Funny
" 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. "
Mind
Relationship
Walk
" Godzilla's a monster for the '90s. He's been working out. "
Been
Monster
Out
" Guys will definitely settle for women who get the joke. But a woman who can make you laugh? It's not high on a guy's must list. Perhaps it should be. "
Laugh
Settle
Will
" I ask for a lot of advice from different fathers - all kinds of dads. "
Ask
Advice
Dads
" I bartended for a catering company for two or three years. "
Catering
Company
Three
" I did a lot of theater in college, and I knew that not many people make it, but I just figured, 'Well, I really want to try acting while I'm young, and I don't ever want to look back and say that I never gave it a try.' I fully figured I'd be back in grad school - probably for psychology. "
College
Acting
Look
" I don't really remember much about the '60s at all. You know, 1970 is the first year I remember pretty well. "
Remember
Know
First
" I had kind of sworn off network TV a while ago. "
Had
While
Kind
" I have no new voices - they've all been used. "
Used
Been
Voices
" I joke that my niche in Hollywood has been naked foreigners. "
Naked
Hollywood
Joke
" I love acting, but I want to explore other things. "
Love
Acting
Want
" I'm very happy I get to keep working - it's an insanely fortunate thing. "
Happy
Working
Fortunate
" In my cranky old age, I actually prefer recording alone now, on 'The Simpsons,' for example, because I find that the director can just focus on what I'm doing and I can do a lot of variations. A lot of times, when I record with a group, I'll stay after class for another hour or two. "
Focus
Old Age
Alone
" 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. "
Weekend
Watch
Like
" It's always impressive when talented comedians are easy laughers or generous with their laughs. "
Easy
Comedians
Always
" It's not really difficult to go from one voice into the next. "
Next
Voice
Really
" I've been divorced and I had to get back out there be single again and do some of that in the genuinely miserable state where you really do wonder what the hell is going on. And you feel like trying to have casual conversation with someone you don't know on the surface of the moon or something. "
Moon
Hell
Conversation
" I've been doing silly voices since I was a child. "
Silly
Since
Doing
" I've done literally 100, 150 different characters. "
Characters
Different
Done
" I was 16 and did a play at school. I was a rather good student... And then I did a play when I was 16 and completely lost all my concentration for academics. "
Good
Then
School
" I was a huge fan of comedy and movies and TV growing up, and I was able to memorize and mimic a lot of things, not realizing that that meant I probably wanted to be an actor. I just really, really amused myself and my friends with memorizing entire George Carlin or Steve Martin albums. "
Myself
Friends
Growing Up
" 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. "
Wig
Mean
Woman
" I would love to do Broadway again. "
Love
Again
Would
" Just watching Jack Lemmon made me want to get into this business. "
Just
Business
Watching
" My ultimate is Peter Sellers - his ability to go broad and somehow humanize that and be hilarious at the same time. He was just relatable, real at the same time as insane. I find Ricky Gervais absolutely hilarious. Steve Martin is another hero of mine - he's a genius. "
Time
Real
Hero
" The craft Emmys are kind of the kids' table at Thanksgiving. You're not really invited to the big dance. It's still really, really exciting, and the statue still counts. "
Thanksgiving
Craft
Dance
" The 'Family Ties' role was the first of many gay roles that I've ended up playing. I remember that I made them laugh, and it made me feel good, 'cause it really cracked them up. "
Feel Good
Me
Laugh
" The Iraq War. No one took to the streets over it. It certainly would have been appropriate. If anybody even hinted we should... you were called un-American and not supporting the troops. "
Been
Over
Streets
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