Fred Willard Quotes
After working with Wayne Brady, Colin Mochrie, and Jonathan Mangum, I said, 'I am never going to talk about improv again.'
Quotes to Explore
-
I'm a bad liar; I don't know what to say backstage.
-
In the '80s the band was 24/7. You were only as good as what you were producing at any given moment. Now my family is more important. I also think having the shock of your mum and dad dying humbles you slightly.
-
To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
-
For me, clean fuels translates into cleaner air for Oregonians. I think that's a good thing.
-
I definitely want people to laugh because I don't think there's a better feeling - I think it's just so fabulous to laugh. I don't mind if people think, either. I think the brain is a very sexy organ.
-
And from that nineteen sixty four, this was my goal to go to Olympic Games. And I realized what does it mean, Olympic Games, like big celebration.
-
Typically, if you buy a studio with a library, their library is pretty well licensed out many years in advance, so you are not really gaining access to the programming in that way.
-
I own a home in Kyoto, Japan actually on the temple on grounds in Nanzenji that is going to become a Japanese art museum.
-
I've never understood pity and self-pity as an emotion.
-
The age thing really bugs me. Do people have more of a right to not like what I say because I'm 19?
-
I was always able to get money, but now it's a little bit more money, and I manage the same way. I just want to see my family do better.
-
The degree of leverage now being reversed is staggering, and the underlying global imbalances - notably between the savers and the spenders - will require long and painful adjustment.
-
In terms of 'Solaris,' I didn't really think about the religious aspect an awful lot. There's one scene at a dinner party, and it's discussed, but it wasn't an overwhelming theme for me.
-
I would never suggest anyone to stay at a company more than six or seven years. We grow as individuals and the world is moving so fast. Typically, I'll always sell a piece of each of my companies along the way.
-
South India has beautiful villages.
-
A transition, by definition, means you start in one place and finish in another.
-
We are not trying to entertain the critics. I'll take my chances with the public.
-
Divorce in a young-adult novel means what being orphaned meant in a fairy tale: vulnerability, danger, unwanted independence.
-
When I have a shoot or a big job coming up, I try my best to work out four or five times a week.
-
If people don't love what you're doing, that doesn't mean you're wrong.
-
I don't really lie about anything, I have to be honest. I like to live with the truth.
-
When my sister was diagnosed with cancer in 1989, her doctor told her that the cancer had probably been in her system for 10 years. By the time cancer's diagnosed, it's usually been around for quite a while.
-
It takes a man a long time to learn all the lessons of all of his mistakes. They say there are two sides to everything. But there is only one side to the stock market; and it is not the bull side or the bear side, but the right side. It took me longer to get that general principle fixed firmly in my mind than it did most of the more technical phases of the game of stock speculation.
-
After working with Wayne Brady, Colin Mochrie, and Jonathan Mangum, I said, 'I am never going to talk about improv again.'
