American - Actor | October 17, 1947 -
People seem to think if you're successful, then you have some secret. The fact is, you've just managed to work your life a certain way.
Michael McKean
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Some of the most interesting characters in literature and in movies and TV have been ones that you can't quite figure out all the way.
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I think a villain who starts his morning looking in the mirror, wringing his hands, and going, 'How can I be evil today?' is not an interesting villain. An interesting villain is a person who you understand on some level, I think.
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I'm not really a gourmet. I like to try new things.
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I think 'The X-Files' was a very important moment in TV history.
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David Lander and I met in September of 1965. We were both students at Carnegie Tech, as it was then known. Before the Mellon money came in.
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'Clue' was a big flop when it came out, but it became a... It's a movie that almost everyone references with me, now, when I run into people.
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I like working with Bob Odenkirk.
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Catherine O'Hara's one of the most amazing, wonderful actresses, but she's an amazing improviser. She really is.
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There's more than one way to do TV just like there's more than one way to do widescreen movies.
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I have never had a plan. Things happen to me, and, of course, I make friends who later say, 'Hey, you know who would be good for this? McKean would be good for this.' And they hire me, and if they like me, they hire me again, or the word gets out.
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After I left 'Laverne & Shirley,' I got a ton of offers to play the goofy guy next door, and there were a couple of series that I was offered that turned out to be successful series, but it was too close to what I'd done on my series, and I was really glad I didn't take it.
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