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Dan Castellaneta

"Go ahead and play the blues if it'll make you happy."

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Akiroq Brost

"That is just what life is when it is beautiful and happy - a game! Naturally, one can also do all kinds of other things with it, make a duty of it, or a battleground, or a prison, but that does not make it any prettier."

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Akiroq Brost

"I can play every instrument there is, every horn, I've played all the saxes and trumpets and everything and keyboards."

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Akiroq Brost

"I named it that because more or less each person from the band used to play in other bands and when we left respective bands other members from those bands all sort of changed round. It was a big sort of move thing. I got it from that, I suppose."

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Akiroq Brost

"I play in the low 80s. If it's any hotter than that, I won't play."

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Akiroq Brost

"I usually play disenfranchised youth."

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Akiroq Brost

"For anyone with half a brain they can see that this play is about the human condition."

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Akiroq Brost

"The way Will Moore taught me, and the way I play it, the blues is just something different."

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Akiroq Brost

"Studios are passe for me. I'd rather play in a garage, in a truck, or a rehearsal hall, a club, or a basement."

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Akiroq Brost

"When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her."

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Akiroq Brost

"I just want to be able to play as fast as my brain goes, and my brain doesn't go all that fast."

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Dan Castellaneta
"It's the cushiest job, but some lines are so funny that I crack up."

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Dan Castellaneta
"To many, Homer may appear lazy and a loser, but he's just much misguided. He's boorish, sure, but well meaning and, I guess, the one thing we have in common is the pursuit of lousy diets."

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Dan Castellaneta
"Beer. Now there's a temporary solution."

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Dan Castellaneta
"It's a different way of getting across an emotion. You're trying to get it across to the animator because the animator is inspired by the voicetrack in terms of how to animate the character."

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Dan Castellaneta
"Go ahead and play the blues if it'll make you happy."

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Dan Castellaneta
"The nice thing is that, at least in Los Angeles, I'm known as a character actor and I do auditions for other things besides just cartoon shows."

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Dan Castellaneta
"I think the tone of the show has certainly changed over the years, because it's really, really hard to do something different when you have a show going on as long as this has."

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Dan Castellaneta
"It's hard to find a play that's right for me to do. Rather than waiting around for the right script to come along, I decided to write one myself."

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Dan Castellaneta
"It's the weirdest thing. When you go into acting, you expect to be a huge star and to be recognized... It did happen, but not in the way you expect it to... In L.A., I'm just another character actor."

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Dan Castellaneta
"I always enjoyed writing. I did playlets in high school, I did radio shows in college. That's one of the reasons I went down to Second City, because you could do acting and writing."

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