I say with pride that I've done over a hundred voices or something, and some of them may have only had two or three lines, but I literally never ran out. I think I'm a bit of a savant that way. I kind of remember every voice I hear, famous or otherwise, and can imitate it pretty fast. I've enjoyed mimicking people famous and not famous all through my life, and they kind of remain in the memory banks, so I'm ready to trot them out.
I just really committed to trying to never repeat myself. I'd seen actors do that on films, and I was, like, "I wanna try that once!" Ultimately, I'm much more in the school of getting one or two versions that feel right, as opposed to going all over the map. But it's fun to exercise that once in awhile.
I think the reason the Golden Age of television is so golden is because a lot of folks are willing to let creators do their thing and live or die by their own muse. They certainly allow us to do that.
I guess I'm used to seeing actors, but rock musicians still hold a special magic for me.
You never know who's going to kill you until you meet them.
I've met a lot of rock stars when they come to The Simpsons, and almost every one of them I get really freaked out.
That's a true actor's nightmare: "Improvise in British sign language. Go."
I put a tremendous amount of pressure on myself. I felt like I shouldn't have to audition for anything and all that. And that energy did not serve me at all.
I was hedging my bets by the time I got to college. I was interested in drama and journalism and psychology.
Even trying it as an actor, I never thought I'd actually make it.
In gay culture hookups are a way of escaping your class.
I guess for me the greatest injustice is to see people robbed of that interiority and process of association.
A self-help book can't really address a problem unless it's individualized. It's not going to talk about a globalized problem.
Association bring you into the larger world of other people and things. Not having that is a kind of prison, a prison of such a limited consciousness, of such a limited frame of reference and association.
I've always been a fan of plain writing. I hate metaphor-laden, heavily larded, lyrical writing.
Literally, I see my writing as transcription - a transcription of what I see, hear, think, live.
As an actress, you're living something through the duration of the play and its geography. I've always seen writing the same way. It's like somehow I'm moving through the terrain of the book as a performer.
Once someone is in your family orbit, there's a mutual responsibility, and whatever happens to them happens to you.
Historically, there would always be people among the general population who had family members, friends, cousins who'd done time or who'd been in prison.
When you become deeply involved with someone, their problems become yours, and vice versa. It's family.
Politics is topical - it's what's happening now, and we can either respond in the present or avoid it.
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