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" Well, we were never coming back to Fox... that was clear. "
Will Arnett
Never
Well
Back
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" I mean, I gotta say one of the greatest victories on that show was when we got picked up for the back nine of the first season, and they made it a full order. "
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Show
Season
Back
" 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. "
Will Arnett
Work
Life
You
" Because 'Gob' was a terrible magician, he was always, in great comedic moments, messing up his magic act. We used to have magicians come in to work on these tricks to actually get them wrong. But they still had to work. We had to bring magicians on to make magic not work. "
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Up
Magic
Great
" 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. "
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Kind
Best
Everything
" Everything's not black and white. We choose to make bad decisions or not. "
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Decisions
Black
Bad
" People have this preconceived notion of me. I'm 'Gob' to them: this thoughtless sociopath who lives this bizarre, ego-driven life. That would be insanity. "
Will Arnett
Me
Bizarre
Life
" 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. "
Will Arnett
Light
Morning
Life
" I'm not necessarily interested in telling the story of people who are super likable. "
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Telling
Who
Story
" At no point was I like, 'Man, I gotta write me a part where people are going to take me seriously'. "
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Like
Going
Man
" 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. "
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Voice
Creative
Job
" I say to my kids all the time - and this is absolutely true - I always say, 'Who's the boss?' and they go, 'You are.' "
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Always
Say
Time
" Yeah, you know, within the context of TV families, these are pretty unsavory characters. "
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Context
Within
You
" What came out of 'The LEGO Movie' was the idea of 'Batman's the Dark Knight', so why is he so moody? What's going on? Why is he so banged up? And wouldn't it be fun to get in there and explore that? "
Will Arnett
Lego
Why
Going
" 'Gob' is a character that I enjoy playing immensely because I have so much freedom to take his dim-wittedness to all sorts of low levels. I find him interesting because when you see real people who are completely self-unaware, it boggles your mind. "
Will Arnett
Mind
Freedom
Enjoy
" 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. "
Will Arnett
You
Character
Play
" My first movie was this independent that I did on the Erie Canal in 1995, called Erie, that I don't know if you could even get, actually with Felicity Huffman. And then from that I did this film that was eventually called The Broken Giant later that fall. And then I kind of started getting into doing pilots. "
Will Arnett
Doing
Broken
Know
" I don't aim to make art in a vacuum - you want people to like it. "
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Like
People
You
" The thing I always try to hold onto with 'BoJack' and with 'Flaked' is that maybe there is a sliver of hope that they are going to turn it around. They are just having a tough time getting there. And that's the thing with 'BoJack' - he is obviously depressed. "
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Time
Tough
Always
" Arrested Development opened a lot of doors for me. "
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Doors
Me
Lot
" 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. "
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You
Yourself
Think
" This pilot, by far, was the best I ever read - and I hope that insults every other pilot I worked on. "
Will Arnett
Far
Hope
Insults
" But as a result of that, there was, once the show ended, there was this talk for sort of four, five months about what was going to happen, and if we were going to move to Showtime, and if we were going to be bought by ABC or whatever. "
Will Arnett
Result
Move
Happen
" Look, I get it; you come home, you work hard, and you turn on your TV... You kind of want to escape a little bit and be taken away by something. Our show required you to pay attention, and if that's not what you wanted to do, then it wasn't going to be for you, and that's OK. "
Will Arnett
Work Hard
Work
Escape
" 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. "
Will Arnett
Person
Odds
Somebody
" I know that my kids are big 'Turtles' fans because there's been this resurgence, especially with the new series on Nickelodeon. "
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Because
Kids
Fans
" Any kind of run-of-the-mill flaws that are easily solved, to me, are boring. Situational flaws, for example. I like flaws that are rooted in a deep distrust in people because of a lack of love. "
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Boring
Love
Flaws
" 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. "
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Pretty
People
Lying
" We live in an age where people will watch epic entertainment on their phones. "
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People
Live
Entertainment
" I'm a huge Toronto Maple Leafs fan, and the only other teams whose games I go to are the Rangers and the Kings. "
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Games
Kings
Maple
" The show had run its course on the Fox network. "
Will Arnett
Fox
Had
Course