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" I guess it's from going to Virginia Military Institute. I'm a good person to follow orders. "
Fred Willard
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" If you're not doing something right, you can feel it on stage, and if it isn't going well, the audience will tell you. A teacher can teach you sense memory and this and that, but until you get in front of an audience, you don't really feel it. "
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" People still quote my lines from 'Best in Show.' "
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" I used to collect autographs outside of the old Cleveland Stadium. I can still remember everyone who took the time and spent a few minutes to make your day. That sticks with you. "
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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 try to shy away from playing cranky people, but if it's just a funny next-door neighbor or business man, I'll say, 'Sure, why not?' "
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" I guess if you're a professional mascot, you're doing it for the money, but a college mascot just wants to be out there. "
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" God bless Chris Guest... and I mean it sincerely. "
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" My stepfather was a military man: he was in the Air Force. Reserve. You thought he'd seen front-line action, but he was stationed in Cleveland. "
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" My first improv was Second City in Chicago. Before that, I worked at - with a partner, doing comedy sketches. "
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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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" The witch in 'Snow White' is a very scary image. "
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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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" If I like a movie, I see no reason not to go back for Parts 2, 3, 4, etc. "
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