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.

I always hoped for a show that was realistic and provocative and moving and funny. And to me, it’s exceeded those expectations … not to mention the people who have climbed aboard to join in...

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.

I’m very happy I get to keep working – it’s an insanely fortunate thing.

When I was young in L.A. and I couldn’t get into clubs or restaurants, I would call imitating celebrities and get a table, and it would work often. I was either Stallone or Mickey Rourke:...

Bart [Simpson] gets away with doing the things we all wish we could get away with.

I’ve been doing silly voices since I was a child.

I’ve done literally 100, 150 different characters.

There’s no experience like on-the-job training.

It’s not fashion, it’s passion.

It’s always impressive when talented comedians are easy laughers or generous with their laughs.

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...

It’s not really difficult to go from one voice into the next.

I ask for a lot of advice from different fathers – all kinds of dads.

Creatively, this is the best job I’ve ever had.

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...

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.

Just watching Jack Lemmon made me want to get into this business.

You can’t be funny for funny’s sake. You try to get as outrageous situation as you can but it always has to be believable and based in real character motivations and what people would really...

The first two months I imagined Godzilla, … Then I got bored of that and I imagined different things. What if my agent was that big? What if my dog was that big?

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...

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...

When you do well in a movie that’s seen as really great, you’re revitalized for six weeks.

Godzilla’s a monster for the ’90s. He’s been working out.

It’s such a complex little show. Watching the second season, the writing deepened, the performance deepened, our interactions deepened. It was fun to get another whack at it, and we all know what we’re doing...

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...

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.

When you’re on a series that’s been cancelled, there’s a little bit of a stink on you.

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.

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.

You know those award shows. The cliche is that it’s an honor just to be nominated, but that happens to be true. Whoever wins it in the end, I don’t know, sometimes it feels arbitrary....

You have to always physicalize, when you do animation recording. Otherwise, you won’t get the performance right.

I bartended for a catering company for two or three years.

When you mimic everyone, sometimes authority figures really don’t appreciate it which is not an original story. And pretty much every comedian has some tale of that.

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....

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...

I don’t really remember much about the ’60s at all. You know, 1970 is the first year I remember pretty well.

I had kind of sworn off network TV a while ago.

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.

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.

I have no new voices – they’ve all been used.

I love acting, but I want to explore other things.

Women are, in general, less shallow visually. If their man gains 10, 20 pounds, they don’t care as much. But I’ve been with women over the years when my weight fluctuated, and they’re definitely more...

You know, 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...

I joke that my niche in Hollywood has been naked foreigners.

I would love to do Broadway again.