Top 35 Alan Tudyk Quotes

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

I would love to work with Joss Whedon again.

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

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

Vince Vaughn is a master improviser.

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.

I’m not so certain in life.

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.

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

‘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.

A lot of film acting is about being casual.

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

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

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

I loved ‘District 9.’

I think I once went three or four years without doing a play, and I almost lost my mind, then I came back and did ‘Spamalot.’

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

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

I’d love to work with Jed Whedon on ‘S.H.I.E.L.D.’

I don’t wear jewelry, as a man.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Whedon changed my life.

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

I really like stuff that makes people laugh.

I’m very interested in Comedia dell’Arte.

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.

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 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.