Fred Willard Quotes

Opera has made me consider suicide. - Fred Willard

One of the great things about kids is, they haven't heard a lot of the old jokes. You can get away with the corny ones. - Fred Willard

My father died when I was young. He was out delivering Christmas packages like he did every year. My mom said that after he delivered the packages, people looked down at him from the buildings and he always turned around and waved, but he didn't that day. He got in his car, had a heart attack or something, and died. He was buried on Christmas Eve. I had no brothers and sisters, so I was all by myself. It really changes you. For the rest of your life you're always expecting something bad to happen. - Fred Willard

My daughter thinks I'm a little more on the straight and narrow than I actually am. - Fred Willard

I've heard a lot of comedians were young when their parents divorced, or when a parent died or was killed. It forces you to have a sense of humor. - Fred Willard

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

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. - Fred Willard

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. - Fred Willard

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

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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