All I try to do is as earnestly and as acutely as I can, conceive a character and try to portray this character just honestly. If the humor is within the absurdity and the awfulness of situations, then let it be seen that way.
Apparently I work for free, look at some of the independent films I've done.
But who knows? It's a fickle town and you never know how long people are going to want to see what you have to offer.
Even right now, I'm glad to be working.
He'd never seen Seinfeld, so he didn't know who Puddy was or anything.
I always wanted to do a Disney movie.
I believe I'm doing the right thing in trying to step away from that and to take chances and work on little independent films and do stuff like that wild dance scene.
I do believe that we have the opportunity to continue - I repeat myself over and over again with this - to redefine and reinvent ourselves and as long as we do that, then I think we've got some pretty good odds in our favor, because we're not always presenting the same thing.
I don't know if I ever really considered making a connection with the audience.
I have a family to support. And I'm not always going to be doing exactly what I want to do.
I have heard nothing from my friends at The Family Guy. Yeah, I heard that they got picked up again and all that good stuff, but I haven't heard anything yet. But, you know, I'm very elusive and hard to contact.
I love westerns. I've always wanted to do a western.
I thought he was an interesting central figure, central character, one who is definitely not your typical central character figure in a film, who's easy to like. He's not easy to like. It forces you to involve yourself with what's going on.
I'll work with Jerry Seinfeld any day of the week. Get a nice little paycheck there, but you do it for free. It's just good to be associated with that man. He's a great guy.
I've actually become much, much dumber through being married and having these children. I find that I'm not half as sharp that I once was. I can't even help them with their 4th and 5th grade vocabulary and math work at this point.
If you're a voice of a big company doing ads on radio, you're going to make money. But doing the cartoons, you really don't.
Let an audience be able to find it themselves without spoonfeeding it.
My only job as an actor is to try and understand the character and, to the best of my ability, bring this character to life.
Never met Levinson. Ever. He directed those American Express spots for us for Seinfeld, and I was off on some guest spot that I didn't even want to do... and I got talked into doing it.
So, deadpan I think just means not acknowledging for one second that you think that this is funny and clever.
The Civilization of Mr. Bright. Yeah. The film opens with full-frontal nudity. I show some full-frontal in that.
The greatest risk is really to take no risk at all. You've got to go out there, jump off the cliff, and take chances.
There's not a fortune to be made doing voiceover work unless you're one of the main voices on The Simpsons. See, there's The Simpsons, and then there's everything else.
Tick is a cartoon character, I don't know if you're familiar with him. This is the third step in his evolution. Comic book to cartoon to, now, live-action.
Well, not at the time, but I've certainly gone through times and years in this business, where I've been very angry, bitter, and resentful.
You don't make a fortune doing cartoons. It's a lot of fun, it keeps you busy, and it's better than a kick in the pants, absolutely. But doing voiceover work doesn't make you rich. It just doesn't.
You never know what's going to happen with television these days.
He appeared in TV commercials for Cert's breath mints, Bugle Boy jeans, American Express, Edge Shaving Gel, Burger King, M&M's candy, Cadillac and Seville STS automobiles.
Patrick is one of four children. His older siblings are his three sisters, Mary, Lara, and Megan.
Patrick owns a cabin on the Rogue River in Oregon.
Patrick did the voice of Superman, along side with Jerry Seinfeld in a series of American Express commercials.
Patrick does the voice of the Wolf on the movie Hoodwinked.
Patrick has stated that he would love to work with Tim Burton and Steven Spielberg, but he has yet to do so.
His two favorite movies are "Sling Blade", staring Billy Bob Thornton, and “Rocky”.
Patrick was raised in an extremely strict Roman Catholic family. They were so strict, that his mother even sent unsigned Bible-based letters urging a local gay couple to repent.
Patrick dropped the puck to start a hockey game. This was after the New Jersey Devils raised their 1995 Stanley Cup banner as the "Face Painter", a homage to what David Puddy (played by Patrick) did on the show Seinfeld.
He enjoys cooking.
He was the voice of The Wolf in the 2005 CGI-animated movie, Hoodwinked.
Patrick hosts the instructional "preboarding" video played before entering the ride "Soarin' Over California" at both Disney's California Adventure and in Epcot at the Walt Disney World Resort in Florida.
He is 6'3.
He has four children.
He studied marine biology at Orange Coast College in Costa Mesa, California. He also met his wife there.
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