Quotes from Alan Tudyk

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

I'm very interested in Comedia dell'Arte.

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

I love Diego [ Luna Cassian]. Diego is very funny. He's a very cool guy. I'm looking forward to doing all the press stuff and getting to hang out with him and everybody again.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

I really like stuff that makes people laugh.