David Pierce
David Pierce
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I had done voiceover for a Simpson's episode, and I also did some for the HBO show Puss N Boots that was set in Hawaii.
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August was horse-racing time. The only time we'd ever go to the track is sometimes in the morning, when the horses would be working out.
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It's very humbling. As you're sitting there, watching, and the character does some wonderful thing, you think, 'Oh that was good.' But it wasn't me. It was them. They did that. It is definitely being a piece of a huge puzzle.
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I've been kick-boxing for exercise. And now if I turn on boxing on the television by accident, I watch it, and I love it. Whereas a year ago, I thought it was the stupidest thing I had even seen-that you would voluntarily watch these people beat the crap out of each other and think, oh, that's entertainment.
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There's a very strange transference that happens in playing brothers. We just respond to each other in a very deep way.
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So much of good comedy is timing and being able to hear the music of a line and the rhythm of a joke. I think that's why a lot of the best comedians have some sort of musical instincts. That's one reason why Kelsey and I work so well together. He's also a musician.
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I did a big movie this summer, during my hiatus. That's really the time when I can do anything where I have a large part. That was Down With Love, an homage to the Rock Hudson-Doris Day films.
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I consciously or subconsciously draw on whatever attributes are most appropriate to the character and just heighten them.
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I do know that if you're able to laugh in a situation, it means you have perspective on the situation... that you're not swallowed up by it. On some level, you can keep your head above water enough to see the humor in something. Being able to have a sense of humor in dark times is an indication that you can make it.
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The curse of being on Frasier is the challenge of finding writing that's that good in any other medium. I've been looking at scripts for two years.
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The greatest honor the Academy has ever given me,