It could be, Wayne Knight says, that he was born to play comically evil, pompous villains.

"Most people would say no, but the reality is when you get typecast like that there's got to be some germ of something in there," said the 50-year-old actor, best known for his role as the malevolent mailman Newman on TV's "Seinfeld."

"What happens, I think, is especially for comic effect you find something about yourself that you don't like. You exaggerate it, and it's funny."

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He did just that as the traitorous scientist who gets eaten by a dinosaur in "Jurassic Park," as the voice of an unscrupulous businessman in the animated "Toy Story 2" and numerous other roles.

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