Alan Tudyk Quotes

The swine flu is evolution, isn't it? In a way, it's an evolution of flu.

- Alan Tudyk

What's casual for a robot isn't necessarily what's casual for a human.

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Vince Vaughn is a master improviser.

- Alan Tudyk

It was fun working with Will Smith; it was fun working with Alex Proyas, who is another sci-fi guy with 'Dark City.'

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I'm just thinking I'm just like a normal actor who gets scripts, and I read them, and... if I enjoy reading them, then that's what's exciting, then I get excited about the audition or the project itself.

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I would say there's about 10 people who know that, that my car was called 'Old Sock.'

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'We need a guy who plays dodge ball and thinks he's a pirate - get me Alan Tudyk on the phone!' Those are the jobs I do.

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I did a stint on 'Dollhouse,' and prior to my stint on 'Dollhouse,' I had no plans to be working with Joss Whedon until he said, 'Hey, do you want to do this?' When he calls, I'll pick up the phone, and that's how that works.

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I certainly don't understand Fox's decision-making process.

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I loved cartoons as a kid, and so many funny moments in animation for me are nonverbal sounds, unarticulated mouth noise.

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You know those people in life who are a bit eccentric and larger than life or a bit odd? That their realm of possibility around them is larger than somebody who's called normal? What's normal for an oddball? They could start screaming in public. That's fun to play.

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That's the great thing about Comic Con - people are so accepting of one another.

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I'd much rather play Batman's cousin than Batman. That's more of my speed.

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Reading is a heady thing. You can be into the action of someone's thoughts and take a whole trip down someone's ruminations while seconds tick by in the world that they're in, but you can't really do that in film.

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A lot of film acting is about being casual.

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Noah's daughter is different from the girls of 'Suburgatory.' She goes to Brown, so she's in college, and she's very smart. And his wife is very much a very strong woman. She's certainly in charge at his house. She's Dallas's polar opposite.

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I don't have any set things that I'm looking for, like, 'I've done this now I want to do this,' kind of thing. Just read the material, if it appeals, if it makes me laugh: like, 'Death at a Funeral' made me laugh out loud.

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I had a role in 'DodgeBall,' where I played a pirate who played dodge ball. I'd say 80 to 90 percent of my lines were 'Garrr' or 'Arghh.' And it was all about what the quality of your 'Grr-arr' was.

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I got the Clarence Durbin Award, the Equity Award - which is cool because it has a cash prize which is cooler than a trophy, especially when you're a struggling actor, and you can't pay rent.

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If something makes me laugh really hard, it sticks in my head or my heart or somewhere inside me.

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When you're seven feet tall on set, people give you respect.

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As an actor, you don't want to say, 'I'm going to be loud and big.' Because that looks awful; that looks fake.

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If you go back and watch the original 'V,' you're like, 'Oh, I thought this was great. It kind of looks really cheesy.'

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Some films, you're lucky enough to get some rehearsal, which is just basic going through the scene, and, 'These are my questions, and this is what I'm trying to achieve,' and you work things out, and maybe a few line changes here or there.

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I loved 'District 9.'

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If you've gone to a sci-fi convention, you've only seen half of it. 'Con Man' delivers what convention 'all-access' passes have only promised in the past.

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I'm a geeky actor, in the way that I like the craft of acting.

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I'm not a big horror movie fan. I am afraid of them; they scare me.

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I never made it on 'Castle.' I tried a few times, so I don't know, but it never worked out.

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I'm very interested in any script that makes me laugh.

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Once you're in a musical, there is a huge opportunity for that, singing and dancing, 'Aha!' and 'Tada' at the end of the numbers; but it's a different kind of discipline you have to go through to maintain that kind of performance.

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Hollywood comedy has gotten really silly and absurd, and I like that.

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I don't get dressed up as the character to go audition.

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It was a different job in that, because it's a 'Star Wars' movie and I'm a droid in a 'Star Wars' movie, people have a reverence for those characters that have come before me.

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I guess I'm attracted to things that are fun. I guess what is fun about this role in 'Suburgatory' is that there's a lot of room to play around.

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I don't wear jewelry, as a man.

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I was really happy with how 'Rogue One' came out.

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I can tan. I get tannish. It's not really tan, it's tannish. That kind of color.

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When 'Firefly' was canceled, we had just a few other places to shop it to - to take it over... And all of them had reasons why they couldn't do it that time.

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I trained as a stage actor and was given a lot of technical tools to play with.

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