Phil Lamarr Quotes

On 'MADtv,' I discovered I could do Billy Crystal. 'Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the 68th Annual Academy Awards!' Surprisingly, there's more call for that one than you'd think.

- Phil LaMarr

I played Dungeons & Dragons and have read comic books since I was a kid.

- Phil LaMarr

If you're doing an animated comedy on the same channel as 'South Park,' no one can really tell you anything. The bar has been set so high.

- Phil LaMarr

In video games and animation, you find that the toughest things to make different are the things that aren't words: grunts, groans, gasps.

- Phil LaMarr

It's interesting, because I've worked with people who are just not nice people, and I've worked with people who are crazy, and the difference is: crazy is much worse.

- Phil LaMarr

Quentin Tarantino was fantastic. I mean, he can be almost unbearable as a person. At a party, you can't get a word in edgewise for, like, an hour. But as a director, he is so completely open and just... present.

- Phil LaMarr

My very first professional job was a cartoon, doing voices for the Mr. T cartoon in high school.

- Phil LaMarr

Sometimes when you do voices next to each other, especially when you're first starting out, they tend to bleed into each other. Working on a show like 'Futurama,' we do multiple characters there, but we've been doing it for a while, so the voices are really well-defined in our heads.

- Phil LaMarr

Say what you will about the leadership of 'SNL,' they have crafted an institution as opposed to just running a show. I don't think that's by accident.

- Phil LaMarr

I was such a 'Star Wars' fan. That was my generation.

- Phil LaMarr