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Hank Azaria to Tufts University's Class of 2016:
"Most of my 'Simpsons' voices are either good or bad impressions of people. I’m a mimic at heart. I become an actor, as the result, because I really just wanted to be other people. When I was your guys’ age, I had a belief that who I was and how I thought and how I felt was inherently uninteresting and flawed and not practical. But it wasn’t until I embraced the person that I really was that my work as an actor got really interesting.
Life is like the Star Wars movies. Some of it is great. Some of it sucks. But you have no choice but to sit through all of it – very similar to the commencement speech you are listening to now."
"Most of my 'Simpsons' voices are either good or bad impressions of people. I’m a mimic at heart. I become an actor, as the result, because I really just wanted to be other people. When I was your guys’ age, I had a belief that who I was and how I thought and how I felt was inherently uninteresting and flawed and not practical. But it wasn’t until I embraced the person that I really was that my work as an actor got really interesting.
Life is like the Star Wars movies. Some of it is great. Some of it sucks. But you have no choice but to sit through all of it – very similar to the commencement speech you are listening to now."
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