Canadian - Actor | November 14, 1962 -
The thing is, you never know with any movie how it's going to turn out. It's always a mystery - you'll do pages and pages of scenes that will never make it onto the screen.
Harland Williams
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I don't go on tour tours - I just go randomly to cities to do shows if I have an opening in my schedule.
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I grew up on Don Knotts and Jerry Lewis and all the guys from Second City.
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I think a lot of people think I'm doing kind of a character onstage, but what you're really getting is just me.
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If you were to come out and hang out with me, just having fun at a nightclub or a party, that's kind of the version of Harland you'd get - silly, kind of always saying wacky things.
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I try to take normal things - whether it's a serious subject or something as obscure as a piece of toast - and put a very weird twist on them.
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I'd done a ton of movies here in Hollywood, and I realized that every movie I'd done was somebody's else's work and someone else's vision.
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I love seafood. Whenever I'm in Las Vegas, I love going to the Bellagio buffet because they have these great king crab legs.
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I hate when you go into a nice restaurant - someplace where you're going to spend good money - and there are kids in there crying.
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My roots are in stand-up, and stand-up is very freeing. There's no script involved; you just fly.
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I sort of write onstage. I'll throw an idea out there, like Home Depot, and just start talking about it.
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Without sounding negative, I'm not a huge fan of a lot of stand-up. I'm more interested in an absurd kind of theater.
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