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" When you think about accountants, who would want to be an accountant? But, what would we do without accountants? Whether it's soldiers or garbage men or doctors, everyone has the thing that they love. "

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Fred Willard

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Wings

Scary

" I just admire everybody and sit in awe and watch them. "

" I really enjoy working on 'Modern Family.' "

" When I started, there was a phase where I wanted to be a cowboy star. I didn't want to do deep, serious parts. "

" God bless Chris Guest... and I mean it sincerely. "

" I have always been more relaxed around comedy. "

Fred Willard

Comedy

Always

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I love sketch; it's my favorite form. But if it's all improv, they're either very good, and it's annoying how good they are, and it makes you feel bad, or they're not too good; then you're sweating for them. "

" Tobe Hooper - he did my favorite horror movie, 'Texas Chain Saw Massacre.' It's still one of my favorite horror films. "

" I've always wanted to be on a soap opera. "

" 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. "

" 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

Done

" 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. "

" 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. "

" People still quote my lines from 'Best in Show.' "

" 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. "

Fred Willard

Reason

People

" My first improv was Second City in Chicago. Before that, I worked at - with a partner, doing comedy sketches. "

" I first became interested in 'great moments' when I read about the famous Feller-to-Boudreau pickoff play in the 1948 World series. "

" I never got any advice in acting. "

" I love San Francisco! "

" I'll talk your ear off if you recognize me. "

" 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!' "

" I've never crossed over to be a big star. I'd like to be in a big $100 million movie, though. 'Cause I was in an 'Austin Powers,' I think I had two lines, and every once in a while, I get a check, a really nice check, for that movie. "

" I like the characters that have some redeeming quality or if it's interesting to me in any way. "

Fred Willard

Interesting

Way

" I never think I'm old enough to play someone's dad, even though I have a daughter of my own and a grandson. "

" I always loved comedy growing up - Bob Hope, Red Skelton and Danny Kaye. "

Fred Willard

Growing Up

Comedy

" I just love everything that Disney and Pixar do. Not only do they do beautiful films, but they have great messages for kids. "

" When we need a policeman, God bless 'em, they're there. But, if you're in the wrong place at the wrong time, everything seems suspicious. "

" Someone I've always admired is Catherine O'Hara... I think she's one of the best actresses in the country, not only comedy. I just think she's just a step aside from everybody, she's just wonderful. "