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" Well, no, I didn't because I didn't even know the nominations were coming out. I gotta say, it wasn't even on my radar. I hadn't... I hadn't even thought about it. "

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" This might be controversial, but sometimes I think that being happy is a decision. I don't mean that in a way to diminish clinical depression. But on a more day-to-day level. "

Will Arnett

Way

Think

Happy

" You don't wake up one morning and say, 'Today is going to be a comedy day.' And the next day, 'Today's going to be a drama day.' Things happen in life that are fun and light, and things happen that are heavier. You just have to move your way through life, and I think 'BoJack' is a good reflection of that. "

" At no point was I like, 'Man, I gotta write me a part where people are going to take me seriously'. "

Will Arnett

Going

Man

" There's a lot of lying and these are people who are incredibly flawed, and not in very sort of empathetic ways, either. Some of the things they do are pretty awful and some of the things they do to each other are pretty awful. "

" I don't aim to make art in a vacuum - you want people to like it. "

Will Arnett

People

You

" When I was a kid, I was a fan of comedy. I always loved Steve Martin, Chevy Chase, Bill Murray, and Dave Letterman - not an actor, obviously, but I'm still impressed by his wit. I wanted to emulate them because they made me laugh. "

Will Arnett

Laugh

Comedy

" I'm a huge Toronto Maple Leafs fan, and the only other teams whose games I go to are the Rangers and the Kings. "

" You meet lots of people in your life, and sometimes you think that people are a certain way, and then they reveal themselves to be a different way. "

" You don't want to try to recreate something you've already done. "

" With 'Mutant Ninja Turtles,' I wanted to play a character who lives more in the real world, although yes, I grant you, he immediately encounters, um, turtles, of the teenage mutant ninja variety. "

" I know that my kids are big 'Turtles' fans because there's been this resurgence, especially with the new series on Nickelodeon. "

" Well, we were never coming back to Fox... that was clear. "

" The show had run its course on the Fox network. "

" This pilot, by far, was the best I ever read - and I hope that insults every other pilot I worked on. "

" I am happy because I'm grateful. I choose to be grateful. That gratitude allows me to be happy. "

Will Arnett

I Am

Happy

" I think that when I was in my 20s, I wanted to go after dramatic roles, and I didn't have a tremendous amount of success with that. I kind of backed my way into comedic parts. When you're young, you kind of take yourself seriously, and you think, like, 'People need to see what I can do.' And it's so laughable, especially with actors. "

" The voice for 'Surly' is, of course, very close to my own voice, but it's informed a lot by this story, by the arc and the animation and working with the whole creative team on 'The Nut Job' in finding what really works. "

" And then we've got Blades of Glory, and we've got Brothers Solomon, and I've got a script in development with this guy Chuck Martin who used to write on Arrested, and, you know, we have a few things in various stages of development. "

" Arrested Development opened a lot of doors for me. "

Will Arnett

Doors

Lot

" And we... right from moment one, we were always kinda up against the wall a little bit when it came to the future of the show. There were always rumors. "

" But since day one, we've always been kinda up against it. So at the end, it's not surprising that we were kind of led along for so many months and didn't know what the fate of the show was gonna be. It was... in a weird way, just kind of that was the way it's always been. "

" I pretty much choose anything I do in life based on whether or not I can work in my PJs. Certainly one of the perks of doing an animated film is that you don't have to go and get ready and wear wardrobe, and you just show up in whatever you're wearing. "

" One of the greatest punsters of all time, Peter Serafinowicz, is a good friend of mine, and I've been in situations more than once where people have been exhausted hanging around with him. "

" And I think that at a certain point, after all the time and all the conjecture and everything that had kind of gone on surrounding this show, I think that Mitch just felt like it was time to let it go. It was best for the show. "

" I'm not necessarily interested in telling the story of people who are super likable. "

" The first paying voice-over gig I ever got was for a company called Harvard Community Health Plan, which is a Boston-based New England health care provider. I inherited a deep, gravelly voice from my dad, who has always claimed that if I ever get injured, he'll just take over for me. "

" If you have a character that doesn't have anything wrong with him, there's nothing funny about it. The idea of the straight man is very important. But I'd rather it be somebody else, because it's not as fun. "

" Everything's not black and white. We choose to make bad decisions or not. "

" Vernon Fenwick. He's a cameraman at Channel 6 - he's April O'Neil's cameraman - and Vernon is a character who is from the 'Turtle' mythology. "

" As I get older, I'm sort of fascinated with the idea of somebody who could construct an entire persona for themselves - one that was really, in a lot of ways, fundamentally at odds with who they really were as a person. "