Hank Azaria
Hank Azaria
Henry Albert "Hank" Azariais an American actor, voice actor, comedian and producer. He is known for starring in the animated television sitcom The Simpsons, voicing Moe Szyslak, Apu Nahasapeemapetilon, Chief Wiggum, Comic Book Guy, Carl Carlson and numerous others. After attending Tufts University, Azaria joined the series with little voice acting experience, but became a regular in its second season, with many of his performances on the show being based on famous actors and characters...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionVoice Actor
Date of Birth25 April 1964
CityNew York City, NY
CountryUnited States of America
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.
When you become deeply involved with someone, their problems become yours, and vice versa. It's family.
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 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 love acting, but I want to explore other things.
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.
I joke that my niche in Hollywood has been naked foreigners.
I had kind of sworn off network TV a while ago.
I don't really remember much about the '60s at all. You know, 1970 is the first year I remember pretty well.
I've always been a fan of plain writing. I hate metaphor-laden, heavily larded, lyrical writing.
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. Sometimes it feels like it's deserving.
[Kids] are just like annoying short people
It's not really difficult to go from one voice into the next. It's like asking you to sing a line of Happy Birthday and then Goodnight Irene - assuming you know the words to both those songs
I guess I'm used to seeing actors, but rock musicians still hold a special magic for me.