A biography for Fred Willardhasn’t been written yet.
“The witch in 'Snow White' is a very scary image.”
“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.”
“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.”
“After working with Wayne Brady, Colin Mochrie, and Jonathan Mangum, I said, 'I am never going to talk about improv again.'”
“I first became interested in 'great moments' when I read about the famous Feller-to-Boudreau pickoff play in the 1948 World series.”
“I've always wanted to be on a soap opera.”
“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 loved Bob Hope and the way he would turn to the camera and break the fourth wall.”
“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.'”
“I never got any advice in acting.”
“If you're a cheerleader, people see you. If you're a mascot, you're just helping out.”
“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.'”
“Cleveland is my hometown, and the Indians have a narrow but rich history.”
“How can we say any one actor's work was better than another's?”
“Martin Landau in 'Crimes and Misdemeanors' - he gave me chills.”
“Tobe Hooper - he did my favorite horror movie, 'Texas Chain Saw Massacre.' It's still one of my favorite horror films.”
“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.”
“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.”
“I guess it's from going to Virginia Military Institute. I'm a good person to follow orders.”
“I just look back, and I say, you know, Christopher Guest just raised my whole career to another level.”