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" When David Cross and I made 'Todd Margaret,' we spent time there. We were shocked and happy with the reaction that we got with fans over there. It was pretty awesome. "

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" 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. "

Will Arnett

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" Because I think a lot of people felt like, ultimately - and this isn't the first time I've said this, so I'll bore you again with it - but ultimately it was... I think it felt like homework a bit for people. "

" 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 spent a lot of time quasi-fascinated with characters who were super-dumb and super-cocky. I always liked that combination. "

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

" 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.' "

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

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

" '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. "

" 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. "

" Any time you can build jokes around a story that resonates on an emotional level, it is going to have a big impact. "

" My definition of family is just unconditional love. The people who rely on you and who love you, they are there, too. "

" We live in an age where people will watch epic entertainment on their phones. "

" 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. "

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

Will Arnett

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" 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. "

" 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. "

" It's very rare that people are exactly who they appear to be. "

" 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. "

" It doesn't look great if you cancel the reigning Best Comedy Program, you know, you're gonna take a hit from a... from sort of a public relations standpoint. "

" Yeah, you know, within the context of TV families, these are pretty unsavory characters. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" When it sort of finally sets in that you're not going to be doing that anymore... it's disappointing. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

Will Arnett

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" 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? "

" 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. "