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" I love working with Ty Burrell. "
Fred Willard
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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. "
Fred Willard
Still
Chain
Favorite
" I like to play the guy that has no self-awareness. "
Fred Willard
Like
Guy
Play
" I loved Bob Hope and the way he would turn to the camera and break the fourth wall. "
Fred Willard
Loved
Camera
Hope
" 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. "
Fred Willard
People
Character
Doing
" I still think 'Texas Chain Saw Massacre' was what they call one of those watershed movies. That and 'The Exorcist' and 'Psycho' were just landmarks for those horror films. "
Fred Willard
Horror
Movies
Psycho
" Getting those parts in the Christopher Guest movies was the second biggest helper to my career after 'Fernwood.' "
Fred Willard
Career
Movies
Helper
" I've been in a lot of shows, I will say that. Every once in a while, I'll look at a tape of something I've done, and I won't even remember having done it. "
Fred Willard
Say
Been
Remember
" I have a guy who does my hair. He's a car nut. And he was taking motorcycle lessons. And, what was my point? "
Fred Willard
Hair
Car
Motorcycle
" I have great respect for the authorities. "
Fred Willard
Great Respect
Respect
Great
" I just admire everybody and sit in awe and watch them. "
Fred Willard
Just
Awe
Everybody
" 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.' "
Fred Willard
Good
Me
Done
" Martin Landau in 'Crimes and Misdemeanors' - he gave me chills. "
Fred Willard
He
Martin
Gave
" I don't know why my lines that were cut from the film didn't make it onto the DVD. I have offered to go into the editing room with Christopher and work shoulder to shoulder with him to fit all my lines in. I think he thinks I'm kidding. I'm only trying to help. "
Fred Willard
Trying
Think
Know
" I love to draw, although I wish I was better at it. "
Fred Willard
Love
Better
Wish
" I first became interested in 'great moments' when I read about the famous Feller-to-Boudreau pickoff play in the 1948 World series. "
Fred Willard
World
Moments
Famous
" The witch in 'Snow White' is a very scary image. "
Fred Willard
White
Witch
Very
" 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
Character
Doing
Play
" I just love everything that Disney and Pixar do. Not only do they do beautiful films, but they have great messages for kids. "
Fred Willard
Great
Everything
Love
" If I like a movie, I see no reason not to go back for Parts 2, 3, 4, etc. "
Fred Willard
I See
See
Reason
" All America is familiar with the Yankee-Dodger-Giant trivia, but so many other teams had great moments. "
Fred Willard
Great Moments
America
Great
" It's such a pleasure to work in these movies, it's almost like it's not really happening. "
Fred Willard
Movies
Work
Almost
" 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. "
Fred Willard
Why
Clown
Escape
" 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
Talk
Perfect
Because
" I think everyone has a door in their brain that says, 'Do not exit here.' If you go past it, you'll find all the dumb thoughts in there, all the stupid things that shouldn't be said. I've probably gone there more than anyone should in a given lifetime. "
Fred Willard
Past
Stupid
You
" Everybody I run into goes, 'Hey, 'Best in Show!'' Or, 'Hey, that dog movie!' which I don't mind because I'm not too good on titles. "
Fred Willard
Mind
Good
Best
" 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
Why
You
Pilot
" 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. "
Fred Willard
You
Professional
Money
" The 'Tim And Eric' experience was very strange. "
Fred Willard
Very
Experience
Eric
" I guess it's from going to Virginia Military Institute. I'm a good person to follow orders. "
Fred Willard
Follow
Person
Good Person
" I just look back, and I say, you know, Christopher Guest just raised my whole career to another level. "
Fred Willard
Look
You
Know