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" I just admire everybody and sit in awe and watch them. "
Fred Willard
Just
Awe
Everybody
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" Martin Landau in 'Crimes and Misdemeanors' - he gave me chills. "
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" I once was in a project. They were going to do a remake. Somebody started a rumor I wanted more money. I said, 'This is ridiculous. I'd kill for this project!' "
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" I did a show called 'Lois & Clark' - it was about Superman - years ago. They wanted someone to play the president of the United States. The plot was the president got kidnapped by a group, and they made a clone of him, who was very irresponsible and silly. "
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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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" Tobe Hooper - he did my favorite horror movie, 'Texas Chain Saw Massacre.' It's still one of my favorite horror films. "
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" If you're going to take a risk as a comic, make sure it's surrounded by other things that you're certain are funny. "
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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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" 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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Action
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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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" Kids can relate to having some scary person living near their house. They can relate to, 'Hey, don't go near that house.' We all can. "
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" I have great respect for the authorities. "
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Respect
Great
" When I started, there was a phase where I wanted to be a cowboy star. I didn't want to do deep, serious parts. "
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Cowboy
Want
Star
" I never think I'm old enough to play someone's dad, even though I have a daughter of my own and a grandson. "
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Play
Someone
" 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. "
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Perfect
Because
" If you're a cheerleader, people see you. If you're a mascot, you're just helping out. "
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Cheerleader
See
People
" Comedy relieves you. A lot of times, we think we're the only people bothered by certain things. Then you hear a comic say, 'Don't you hate it when...' And it's, 'Oh, my God! Of course!' "
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" It scared me to death to think about improv, but I got hired for a year at Second City in Chicago, which made me nervous, but I found I could improvise. Then I was in a group called the Ace Trucking Company, which we'd do, like, a half hour set of material, then open up for improvisation. "
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Chicago
" 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. "
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Character
Doing
" I just love everything that Disney and Pixar do. Not only do they do beautiful films, but they have great messages for kids. "
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Everything
Love
" 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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" I have always been more relaxed around comedy. "
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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 had just done a movie called 'How to Beat the High Cost of Living,' and it didn't get a good review. And the same people sent me the script for 'Airplane!' for the Robert Hays part. I read it, and there were a lot of plays on words, and I said, 'I don't like this kind of comedy.' "
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Good
Me
Done
" I like the characters that have some redeeming quality or if it's interesting to me in any way. "
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Like
Way
" I like to play the guy that has no self-awareness. "
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Guy
Play
" My first improv was Second City in Chicago. Before that, I worked at - with a partner, doing comedy sketches. "
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Doing
Comedy
" Suddenly you're like a pirate, you're 65 years old and you've got an earring. "
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Pirate
Got
" In most cities, it doesn't cost much to put your own show on a local access channel, so you get all sorts of strange stuff on the air. "
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Air
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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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