49 Quotes by Harland Williams

"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 don't laugh so much at jokes and premises as I do at a guy who goes onstage and starts twitching and acting funny."

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"I get a lot of people telling me that I'd make a good 'wacky neighbor.' I wouldn't mind that, if it was a starting-off point."

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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 hate when you go into a nice restaurant - someplace where youre going to spend good money - and there are kids in there crying."

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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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"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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"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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"The thing I love about sketch is sometimes it leads you as opposed to you leading it. So, I don't go out there [thinking], "Oh, I want to make this as silly as possible." In fact, sometimes I get the most enjoyment out of a sketch that plays very real - and it's so real that it's just funny."

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