Fred Willard Quotes
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As an actor, and as you get to a certain level... and it's pilot season and you read the trades, you could have a nervous breakdown. 'So-and-so's signed for a pilot. Why aren't I?'
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It's not a bad typecast: the goofy guy.
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My father passed away when I was 12, so it was very difficult. But I was always the class clown. I don't know why - maybe as an escape. But then I was sent away to military prep school.
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I like the characters that have some redeeming quality or if it's interesting to me in any way.
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It's more fun in a way to do ensemble scenes, where you know your background, you know the scene, but you can't prepare because someone else is going to say something that is going to lead you off.
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Comedy is harder, because if there's no laughs, it's pretty bad. But drama, if there's no reaction, you can say, 'Well, it's not their cup of tea. Maybe it's too heavy for the audience.'
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I am re-collecting the baseball cards my mom had thrown out when I went away to school. You know you are an adult when you can buy a whole set of baseball cards instead of two packs at a time.
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Suddenly you're like a pirate, you're 65 years old and you've got an earring.
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I was an only child.
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One of the great things about kids is they haven't heard a lot of the old jokes. You can get away with the corny ones.
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I love working with Ty Burrell.
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Christopher Guest, he'll call and say, 'We're doing this movie, and I'd like you to play _' and he gives you the character, then I always like to enlarge on the character.
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I love San Francisco!
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I guess the essence of my comedy is to get into a very abnormal situation but act like it's normal.
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I just admire everybody and sit in awe and watch them.
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I'd love to have Burt Reynolds' career.
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I love to draw, although I wish I was better at it.
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I just look back, and I say, you know, Christopher Guest just raised my whole career to another level.
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I'll talk your ear off if you recognize me.
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If I have to play an obnoxious character, try to find a redeeming feature of him. The most obnoxious people in the world were people, and they had had a reason for doing what they did. So you try to find that and let the obnoxiousness come out.