Top 93 Quotes & Sayings by Alan Tudyk

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American actor Alan Tudyk.
Last updated on December 5, 2024.
Alan Tudyk

Alan Wray Tudyk is an American character actor. He is known for his roles as Tucker McGee in Tucker & Dale vs. Evil, Hoban "Wash" Washburne in the space Western series Firefly and the film Serenity, and Steve the Pirate in Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story. He has also had starring roles in the films I, Robot, A Knight's Tale, Transformers: Dark of the Moon, 42, Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials, and Rogue One. He performed the voice of King Candy in 2012's Wreck-It Ralph, for which he won an Annie Award, and has done voices for every Walt Disney Animation Studios film since.

I'm very interested in Comedia dell'Arte.
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 certainly don't understand Fox's decision-making process. — © Alan Tudyk
I certainly don't understand Fox's decision-making process.
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'm a geeky actor, in the way that I like the craft of acting.
I'd much rather play Batman's cousin than Batman. That's more of my speed.
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 don't get dressed up as the character to go audition.
I can tan. I get tannish. It's not really tan, it's tannish. That kind of color.
I trained as a stage actor and was given a lot of technical tools to play with.
When you're seven feet tall on set, people give you respect.
The swine flu is evolution, isn't it? In a way, it's an evolution of flu.
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 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.
I really like stuff that makes people laugh.
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.
I was really happy with how 'Rogue One' came out. — © Alan Tudyk
I was really happy with how 'Rogue One' came out.
If you go back and watch the original 'V,' you're like, 'Oh, I thought this was great. It kind of looks really cheesy.'
I loved cartoons as a kid, and so many funny moments in animation for me are nonverbal sounds, unarticulated mouth noise.
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.
I'm not a big horror movie fan. I am afraid of them; they scare me.
Vince Vaughn is a master improviser.
What's casual for a robot isn't necessarily what's casual for a human.
If you're playing a character who says whatever he wants, I felt free to say whatever I wanted on set.
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.'
I'd love to work with Jed Whedon on 'S.H.I.E.L.D.'
I'm not so certain in life.
That's the great thing about Comic Con - people are so accepting of one another.
I never made it on 'Castle.' I tried a few times, so I don't know, but it never worked out.
I would say there's about 10 people who know that, that my car was called 'Old Sock.'
Hollywood comedy has gotten really silly and absurd, and I like that.
I'm very interested in any script that makes me laugh.
Whedon changed my life.
I don't wear jewelry, as a man.
As an actor, you don't want to say, 'I'm going to be loud and big.' Because that looks awful; that looks fake.
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.
I loved 'District 9.'
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.
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 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.
It was fun working with Will Smith; it was fun working with Alex Proyas, who is another sci-fi guy with 'Dark City.' — © 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.'
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.
'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.
If something makes me laugh really hard, it sticks in my head or my heart or somewhere inside me.
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.
A lot of film acting is about being casual.
I would love to work with Joss Whedon again.
R2-D2 is like that, but I think because he doesn't speak actual words, his jokes don't land. It's really a hindrance. And the same with BB-8. But Artoo is a lot stronger.
Those are always fun characters to play, the ones who are stupid but speak with authority.
I'm a geeky actor, in the way that I like the craft of acting. I trained as a stage actor and was given a lot of technical tools to play with. I like the craft of acting. It sounds geeky when I say it, but it's true.
It was great. We knew we were going back when we finished the movie. It was such a big movie [Star Wars]. — © Alan Tudyk
It was great. We knew we were going back when we finished the movie. It was such a big movie [Star Wars].
The reason I got into acting was the audience is right there and if you did something great they were right there and you knew it.
I wrote and directed and acted in it and produced it, every job I have since that - and Star Wars included - I look at it completely different now. Now that I've seen how it gets made, I can appreciate the jobs that people are doing, and it's also become a different learning experience for me to work on things because I'm watching pros at the top of their field do their jobs and just picking up on their tricks and all of their expertise and stashing them away in my brain.
I'm there [on Moana] with the other actors, so you play off one another. It's not just your idea of what the character is and what the world is like it would be in an animated [film], where it all sort of exists in your head. It's all right there, and if Diego's performance is doing what it's doing, it affects yours.
Gareth [Edwards] was very much about including everyone in what we were making, so he would cut together different scenes to show us what we were making. And the crew, cast, everyone would go into a theater there at Pinewood Studios and watch 10 minutes of what we were making. It was always so exciting. It looked amazing, and the music was huge.
[Heihei] a really dumb rooster. You have to just turn the rooster so his head ends up hitting the grain. He's not smart enough to eat.
I like comedies, and my brain sort of spins in that direction. So I'm really happy to say there were several smartass comments that come from me [on Star Wars].
The wrinklier the raisin, the sweeter the fruit.
It's just like they approach things on every movie I've worked on, very much as if it was a live-action movie. The character you're playing, even though he's a rooster and is really stupid, you approach it in the same way you would approach Hamlet, which is exactly how I approached it. But they give you the circumstances. "You're on the boat. You didn't expect to be here. You just climbed in a boat to maybe sleep. You don't even know why you climbed in the boat. You're really that dumb.
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