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How can we say any one actor's work was better than another's?
Fred Willard -
I saw the 'Wizard of Oz' recently and realized that, all my life, I thought they were real monkeys with wings. That's how scary that movie was for me.
Fred Willard
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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?'
Fred Willard -
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.
Fred Willard -
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.
Fred Willard -
It's not a bad typecast: the goofy guy.
Fred Willard -
With improv or a full length play - you know how you go to a theater, and after 10 minutes you say, 'Oh, I don't like this thing,' but you don't want to get up and leave? At a sketch show, it's always something new every few minutes.
Fred Willard -
I'd love to have Burt Reynolds' career.
Fred Willard
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I have always been more relaxed around comedy.
Fred Willard -
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.
Fred Willard -
I just look back, and I say, you know, Christopher Guest just raised my whole career to another level.
Fred Willard -
If I like a movie, I see no reason not to go back for Parts 2, 3, 4, etc.
Fred Willard -
I'll talk your ear off if you recognize me.
Fred Willard -
I was an only child.
Fred Willard
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I just admire everybody and sit in awe and watch them.
Fred Willard -
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 love working with Ty Burrell.
Fred Willard -
Bob Balaban is so perfect that the first movie I did with him, I couldn't talk to him because I was so intimidated by him.
Fred Willard -
I like to play the guy that has no self-awareness.
Fred Willard -
I love to draw, although I wish I was better at it.
Fred Willard