You cant be funny for funnys 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 do. – Hank Azaria

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 an actor. I just really, really amused myself and my friends with memorizing entire George Carlin or Steve Martin albums. – Hank Azaria
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. – Hank Azaria
What I dont like is when I see stuff that I know has had a lot of improv done or is playing around where theres no purpose to the scene other than to just be funny. What you dont want is funny scene, funny scene, funny scene, and now heres the epiphany scene and then the movies over. – Paul Feig
