Fred Willard Quotations

Cleveland is my hometown, and the Indians have a narrow but rich history.

Suddenly you're like a pirate, you're 65 years old and you've got an earring.

I just admire everybody and sit in awe and watch them.

It's such a pleasure to work in these movies, it's almost like it's not really happening.

I think my wife saw a picture of the rock group Journey, and they're kind of aging, and the one guy had dyed blonde hair with black roots, and... my idea was to get a little earring, I wanted to have a dangling earring.

It's more fun in a way to do ensemble scenes, where you know your background, you know the scene, but you can't prepare because someone else is going to say something that is going to lead you off

I don't know why my lines that were cut from the film didn't make it onto the DVD. I have offered to go into the editing room with Christopher and work shoulder to shoulder with him to fit all my lines in. I think he thinks I'm kidding. I'm only trying to help.

Someone I've always admired is Catherine O'Hara... I think she's one of the best actresses in the country, not only comedy. I just think she's just a step aside from everybody, she's just wonderful.

Chris, listen to me, put down the gun and let the marching band go. We'll play it off as a prank.

I have also always had a fascination with the St. Louis teams; the Cardinals for their Gashouse Gang and classic uniform logos, and of course the Browns for just being the Browns and for Pete Gray. You can also still stand on the site of the '44 World Series, although the parks department has seen fit to plant over the old diamond.

I think Dabney Coleman is quite baseball-savvy. So is Christopher Guest.

Babe Ruth's orphanage, St. Mary's, still stands outside of Baltimore, and although it's under another name, you can walk on the spot where the Babe first played and stand where he was photographed wearing that catchers mitt on the wrong hand.

All America is familiar with the Yankee-Dodger-Giant trivia, but so many other teams had great moments.

In this last movie, I gave it quite a lot of thought to my character, and I fell back on a lot of managers and agents that I've had, and my early New York days where comics would sit around a table doing jokes and the managers would have jokes, and so I based it on a lot of that.

In several TV shows I've done, I'm trying to think of what - just say something here, we need something funnier here.