Matthew Lillard Quotes

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• Charlie Brown's good. I always had a little crush on that Lucy. I thought she was kind of a hot little brunette.
• Hollywood used to be run by artists and people who loved artists... people who wanted to make movies for all the right reasons. For the…
• Character actors are becoming a thing of the past. They're just going by the wayside. They're just cutting through that caliber of acting.
• Being onstage is like being rock star. Whereas if you're doing a movie, it's such a confined space. You know, you do a comedy, it's…
• I always think that I'm the best thing in a lot of bad movies. Personally, I have to. I think that I like me as…
• How much do you have to pay someone to be in a George Clooney/Alexander Payne film? Nothing! Because everyone in the world wants to be…
• I got into a bad jag of movies that helped pay the rent and I thought would help further me along.
• Now, more then ever, we have the ability to make films for almost nothing and that's broken down all barriers of entry. I think it's…
• So much of Hollywood is about who the people you work with are.
• Something like 'Without a Paddle' does really well at the box office and I'm like, 'Oh, here we go.' In 'Without a Paddle' I'm the…
• I was like, what the hell is my life coming to? I'm a trained actor! I've done Shakespeare and here I am having farting contests…
• Being an actor, when you sign onto a project - whether it's good, bad, or indifferent - you kind of fall in love with it.…
• When you go from movie to movie, it's like going from family to family. You work with people for really intense hours on really long…
• The more lines I have, in general, the worse a movie is. It's very rare that I get say great things in fantastic movies. So…
• As a kid, as a young actor, I really wanted to pop. I wanted to create something different. I wanted to be Sean Penn, but…
• Every kid's dream is to be a great actor.
• A lot of times, as a clown, you find acting for a reason. It's a way to exercise yourself. If you're funny, you test yourself.
• You become funny for a reason. I became an actor because that's who I was, nothing else - it was the only thing I was…
• For better or worse, I take my acting seriously. I may not have been in the best movies ever made, but I take it deathly…
• The older I get, the more I can't stand violence and have a hard time with seeing people die in horrific ways. It gets harder…

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