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

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. N….

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 ….

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….

[Heihei] is stupidest chicken on planet Earth and mascot..

Those are always fun characters to play, the ones who are stupid but speak with authority..

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 wit….

It's amazing how much actual chicken sounds lend themselves to stupidity..

[Clowns] gotten a really bad rap in the last few years. People have really given into their own fears and have celebrated their fears in that way. Am….

I was going to be credited as Wray Nerely, my role in Con Man. It got cut in the reshoots. I was like, "Wait a second. I'm cut." It's a better tellin….

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 ….

It was a very interesting challenge [Heihei role] because he's limited to rooster-y, chicken-type noises, and he goes along on the whole adventure. I….

[I'm] a huge defender of clowns around the world..

I consider theater, this is a vacation for me from LA, I sort of view this as I get to have this vacation and during my vacation I get to work on act….

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 Art….

I have a very close friend who is a brilliant clown, and I always wanted to do a show with him. So I did one year at La MaMa Theatre. I had not done ….

C-3PO is flappable [in Star Wars]. [Kaytoo is] very unflappable compared to C-3PO, who is just flapping all over the place..

It was great. We knew we were going back when we finished the movie. It was such a big movie [Star Wars]..

When we recorded [Moana], I would do all of the stuff and then save all the big screaming for last so that you can really blow it out and ratchet it ….

Because I'm CGI, [John Swartz] gave me a role of an Imperial pilot in one scene, so I had a day where I was on camera dressed as a black suit and a l….