Fred Willard

Comedian

United States

1933 - 2020

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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.
Fred Willard
That's always a funny thing, when people think they're known for every little thing they ever did, and they're really not.
Fred Willard
My first improv was Second City in Chicago. Before that, I worked at - with a partner, doing comedy sketches.
Fred Willard
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.
Fred Willard
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.
Fred Willard
It's such a pleasure to work in these movies, it's almost like it's not really happening.
Fred Willard
I was an only child.
Fred Willard
I never got any advice in acting.
Fred Willard
I like to play the guy that has no self-awareness.
Fred Willard
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.
Fred Willard