Hank Azaria

So you could look at me as either the most overachieving voiceover actor in the history of the world or a moderately underachieving movie star or lead actor, whatever, or even character actor.

But it's just the way things went.

Some of it's luck, some of it's my own temperament, some of it's... What's the temperament part?

Well, the perfectionism and the sort of... There were times where I got in my own way.

And there were times when I was so miserable doing it that I sort of would have preferred not.

There were times I was starting a movie and I was like, I'd give anything to get out of this.

Like, the pressure felt so much to me that I just wasn't cut out for it.

And I actually would like, one of my favorite shows is The Honeymooners, you know, Gleason and Carney.

And there's an episode where Ed's playing the piano because Ralph is learning songs for the, he's going on to the quiz show for popular music.

And he and Alice start arguing over Ed playing.

And Norton finally goes, why was I blessed with this musical talent?

And sometimes I felt that way about my own career.

Like, I wish I wasn't good enough to be in this movie because the pressure of it is really hard.

Oh, that's funny.

That's very funny.

By the way, I worked through all that, and now I'm happy where I'm at.

You did?

I did.

I took a lot of therapy and program and sorting myself out.

And then I found a kind of happiness in my work and I'm grateful like for any of it.