Quotes by Harland Williams - Page 1

Pumpkins are the only living organisms with triangle eyes.
Harland Williams / Actor
Eye
Pumpkin
Triangles
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I'm an American citizen now, but I will always have Canadian pride.
Harland Williams / Actor
Pride
American Citizen
Canadian
Citizen
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I grew up on Don Knotts and Jerry Lewis and all the guys from Second City.
Harland Williams / Actor
Cities
Grew Up
Guy
Second City
Lewis
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The problem with binge-watching on Netflix is that you lose three days of your life.
Harland Williams / Actor
Binge Watching
Netflix
Problem
Three
Life Your Lose
Days
Life Lose Your
Lose
The Problem With
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The thing I love about sketch is sometimes it leads you as opposed to you leading it.
Harland Williams / Actor
Sometimes
Things I Love
Leads
Sketch
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My roots are in stand-up, and stand-up is very freeing. There's no script involved; you just fly.
Harland Williams / Actor
Involved
Roots
Freeing
Script
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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.
Harland Williams / Actor
Cities
Goes On
Schedules
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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.
Harland Williams / Actor
Cities
Opening
Randomly
Schedule
Tour
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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.
Harland Williams / Actor
Home Depot
Onstage
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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.
Harland Williams / Actor
Character Me People
Onstage
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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.
Harland Williams / Actor
Premises
Twitching
Onstage
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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.
Harland Williams / Actor
Absurd
Huge Fan
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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.
Harland Williams / Actor
Las Vegas
Legs
Seafood
Vegas
Buffet
Crab
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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.
Harland Williams / Actor
Neighbor
Wacky
Good Mind Me
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I think life would be so much funnier if every day you saw someone walking down the street getting hit in the head by a monkey.
Harland Williams / Actor
Saws
Thinking
Would Be
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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.
Harland Williams / Actor
Kids
Hate
Nice
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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.
Harland Williams / Actor
Crying
Someplace
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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.
Harland Williams / Actor
Ton
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I think life would be so much funnier if every day you saw someone walking down the street getting hit in the head by a monkey, don't you?
Harland Williams / Actor
Funnier
Monkey
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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.
Harland Williams / Actor
Normal Things
Obscure
Toast
Twist
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Canada has been a breeding ground for great comedic actors, sketch artists and stand-up comedians. We grew up with a different perspective on the world.
Harland Williams / Actor
Artist
Breeding
Canada
Comedian
Different Perspective
Perspective
Great World Perspective
Comedians
Sketch
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Executives and studios really like to have control over their product. They panic or they're not secure enough to trust in the powers of really amazing improv people.
Harland Williams / Actor
Enough
Panic
People
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I used to do little sketches into my cassette tape recorder when I was a little boy. I would just turn it on and just start doing voices and characters. I just loved it.
Harland Williams / Actor
Boys
Character
Tape
Voice
Cassette
Recorder
Sketches
Tape Recorder
Voices
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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 / Actor
Pages
Onto
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I think people should maybe just go out into the garden and watch a ladybug crawl across a flower and relax their mind. That's about all you need to know about life, I think.
Harland Williams / Actor
Flower
Garden
Thinking
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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.
Harland Williams / Actor
Having Fun
Silly
Wacky
Version
Me Fun Always
Hang
Nightclub
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I just tried to create a life for myself that's full of fun and fantasy and things that equal laughter. My life's been cartoons and comedy and acting, and it's just been a fun life.
Harland Williams / Actor
Acting
Fun
Laughter
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It was such a pleasure to work with Eugene Levy. What a treat. That's a guy I grew up watching as a kid. Guys like that, they were hilarious and didn't have to be super vile or X-rated.
Harland Williams / Actor
Hilarious
Vile
Super
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I just tried to create a life for myself that's full of fun and fantasy and things that equal laughter. My life's been cartoons and comedy and acting, and it's just been a fun life, man.
Harland Williams / Actor
Fantasy
Laughter
Life Myself Man
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If you're going to take a jab at someone, you should at least have a bit more of a personal relationship with them. I feel like you can be funny and clever, as opposed to just outright vile.
Harland Williams / Actor
Clever
Jab
Opposed
Outright
Personal Relationship
Vile
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What's interesting about Stephen Baldwin is that me and Dana Gould were originally cast for 'Bio-Dome' - but Pauly Shore and Baldwin ended up doing it. So there's a little movie trivia for ya.
Harland Williams / Actor
Shore
Trivia
Ended
Originally
Ya
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I'd like to explore the more abstract side of people's minds, as opposed to the usual sitcom stuff. I don't want to do the typical sitcom-type humor. I'd want to do stuff like go bowling with pineapples.
Harland Williams / Actor
Abstract
Bowling
Sitcom
Typical
Usual
Explore
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Everything's a conspiracy and everything's not a conspiracy. You could look at this planet and go, "This is all a conspiracy. God made this to test us to see if we'll use the nukes." You can let your mind believe anything.
Harland Williams / Actor
Believe
Mind
Tests
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I love the theater of the mind because you can go anywhere. You can say anything, and you pull people in. [You] can be jumping out of a window or riding a cow or having bubble-wrap sex or spraying your body with Pam and sliding out of your chair.
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Jumping
People
Sex
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In 'There's Something About Mary' and 'Dumb & Dumber,' I ended up improvising quite a bit of my scenes, and later I didn't even remember what I'd said because I just winged it. When I went and saw the movie, I was as stunned as everyone else was.
Harland Williams / Actor
Dumb
Improvising
Mary
Stunned
Scenes
Ended
Everyone Else
Saw
Later
Quite A Bit
Winged
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I always improvise with the crowd. Sometimes it will be a 50 percent show, sometimes 70 percent, sometimes it's almost a whole show where I wing it. It depends on my mood, the energy in the room. For sure, a portion of it is just kind of winging it.
Harland Williams / Actor
Mood
Just Kind
Portion
Wing
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I was walking around bored one day, and I started filming stuff with my cellphone. There are all these shows where people are trying to do these outrageous stunts, and I thought it would be funny to do all these stunts that aren't outrageous but then act like they are.
Harland Williams / Actor
Bored
Outrageous
Filming
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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.
Harland Williams / Actor
Real
Silly
Thinking
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Animation wasn't my love, but drawing was. I loved drawing, and when it came time to graduate from high school, I looked around and it was like, "Wow, I don't really want to study math. I don't really want to study science. I don't really want to study literature. Is there a place where I can go and draw cartoons?"
Harland Williams / Actor
Drawing
Math
School
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