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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

Topics: Big Doing Either Fans Found Me Over People Quite Reason Some Understand Use Years

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

~Fred Willard

Topics: Bless Chris God God Bless Guest Mean Sincerely

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I guess it's from going to Virginia Military Institute. I'm a good person to follow orders.

~Fred Willard

Topics: Follow Going Good Good Person Guess Institute Military Orders Person Virginia

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

~Fred Willard

Topics: Before Chicago City Comedy Doing First Improv Partner Second Second City Sketches Worked

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There's different kinds of improv. There's Second City improv where you try to slowly build a nice sketch. There's stuff you do in college coffee houses where you just go joke, joke, joke. Bring another funny character with a funny hat on his head. Christopher Guest is more the line of trying to get a story out.

~Fred Willard

Topics: Another Bring Build Character Christopher City Coffee College Different Different Kinds Funny Get Go Guest Hat Head His Houses Improv Joke Just Kinds Line More Nice Out Second Second City Sketch Slowly Story Stuff Try Trying Where You

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The 'Tim And Eric' experience was very strange.

~Fred Willard

Topics: Eric Experience Strange Tim Very

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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

Topics: Always Call Character Christopher Doing Gives Guest He Like Movie Play Say Then You

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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.

~Fred Willard

Topics: Always Did Ever Every Funny Funny Thing Known Little Little Thing People Really Thing Think

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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

Topics: Chain Did Favorite Films He Horror Horror Films Horror Movie Massacre Movie Saw Still Texas

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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

Topics: Character Come Did Doing Feature Find Had Him Most Obnoxious Out People Play Reason Redeeming Try Were World You

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Comedian

Born: September 18th, 1939

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