American - Comedian | September 18, 1939 -
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
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The 'Tim And Eric' experience was very strange.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I never got any advice in acting.
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Let me say this: I have said, any time, if it's Martin Mull, I will say yes. If it's Christopher Guest, I will say yes.
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If you're a cheerleader, people see you. If you're a mascot, you're just helping out.
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I guess if you're a professional mascot, you're doing it for the money, but a college mascot just wants to be out there.
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Bob Balaban is so perfect that the first movie I did with him, I couldn't talk to him because I was so intimidated by him.
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All America is familiar with the Yankee-Dodger-Giant trivia, but so many other teams had great moments.
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