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"I've made a kind of pact with myself where I said, It doesn't matter what it is as long as I'm acting."
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"At least when you're acting you can be someone. In front of the camera you have to be yourself. And who am I?"

"Great acting may be a turn-on, but it won't make me fantasize about the person for a week."

"What I loved about the acting class was that you got to think all day long about a person that wasn't you, and figure out why they were sad and what they wanted, what they dreamed."

"My favorite way of getting out of doing chores is by acting like I'm asleep. But it never works."

"I have been taking classes and I'm familiar with stage, but I'm not as familiar with acting on camera."

"I'm less needy about needing to express myself through acting. I have many different lives outside of this that are extremely fulfilling."

"And then, I suppose, there's also a cinematic reality on top of that. Because it was extremely difficult to keep tabs on, it was quite confusing acting that."
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"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."

"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."

"The voice doesn't take a lot of effort now, but in the beginning it was hard to try to find a voice. The one I settled on was just easier to do for a half-hour."

"After years of doing it, you learn the difference between your ego and your opinion. When you're married you have to cut through that."

"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."

"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."

"I think that most people don't even know that I do other things. They think that Homer is all that I do."
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