Hank Azaria

You were Herman?

I was Herman's best friend, Jay.

And on dismal tape nights, I would sit there and say to myself, well, at least I'm not in the head.

At least I'm actually in the world of the show.

Yeah, you escaped.

But so I was what I'd call Herman's head famous, where I didn't think the show was particularly all that.

I learned a lot doing it, and believe me, I was grateful for the job and the paycheck.

But I thought it was kind of dumb, and I didn't love getting recognized for it.

You know what I mean?

It's like, and...

So I didn't know what to say.

You know, you're the horny guy from Herman's Head.

I'm like, yeah, yeah, yeah.

And so I didn't like love that.

I was picturing, you know, people worshiping Al Pacino's work in The Godfather, not you're the horny guy from Herman's Head.

That right away was like... Then I thought the solution to that was, well, I gotta become Al Pacino.

Like, I gotta achieve more and more and get to a status where I'm happy with the way people are coming out for me and what they're recognizing me for.

And I had some of that.

I still do.

But it's never... It's not... It's mostly...