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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.'

~Fred Willard

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I just look back, and I say, you know, Christopher Guest just raised my whole career to another level.

~Fred Willard

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

~Fred Willard

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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.

~Fred Willard

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Getting those parts in the Christopher Guest movies was the second biggest helper to my career after 'Fernwood.'

~Fred Willard

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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

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I loved Bob Hope and the way he would turn to the camera and break the fourth wall.

~Fred Willard

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Comedy always came easier for me. But I would have loved to have been an action hero.

~Fred Willard

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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.

~Fred Willard

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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!'

~Fred Willard

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Comedian

Born: September 18th, 1939

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