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" If I like a movie, I see no reason not to go back for Parts 2, 3, 4, etc. "
Fred Willard
I See
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" I love San Francisco! "
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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 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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" That's always a funny thing, when people think they're known for every little thing they ever did, and they're really not. "
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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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" 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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You
Doing
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" 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. "
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Thought
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" I first became interested in 'great moments' when I read about the famous Feller-to-Boudreau pickoff play in the 1948 World series. "
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World
Moments
Famous
" I like to play the guy that has no self-awareness. "
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" I think my wife saw a picture of the rock group Journey, and they're kind of aging, and the one guy had dyed blonde hair with black roots, and... my idea was to get a little earring, I wanted to have a dangling earring. "
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Journey
Hair
" How can we say any one actor's work was better than another's? "
Fred Willard
How
Better
Actor
" I've found over the years that for some reason, people either are big fans and have to use me, or they don't quite understand what I'm doing. "
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Reason
People
Me
" 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. "
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Say
Play
Know
" 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. "
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Say
Been
Remember
" When I started, there was a phase where I wanted to be a cowboy star. I didn't want to do deep, serious parts. "
Fred Willard
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. "
Fred Willard
Enough
Play
Someone
" 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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Great
Everything
Love
" I loved Bob Hope and the way he would turn to the camera and break the fourth wall. "
Fred Willard
Loved
Camera
Hope
" 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
" After working with Wayne Brady, Colin Mochrie, and Jonathan Mangum, I said, 'I am never going to talk about improv again.' "
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Working
I Am
Going
" I like the characters that have some redeeming quality or if it's interesting to me in any way. "
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Interesting
Like
Way
" I think if you have a funny thought, and you want to get off a funny point, try to do it as realistically as you can. If you try to act it funny and accent the funny points, or do it in a funny style, you kind of lose it. "
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Funny
You
Style
" I'll go in a minute to see a sketch show. "
Fred Willard
Go
Show
See
" I never got any advice in acting. "
Fred Willard
Never
Advice
Acting
" 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. "
Fred Willard
Thought
Action
Air Force
" 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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Silly
Someone
Group
" 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. "
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Mind
Good
Best
" It's not a bad typecast: the goofy guy. "
Fred Willard
Guy
Goofy
Bad
" I'd love to have Burt Reynolds' career. "
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Love
Career
Burt Reynolds