Tim Matheson

There is something about the vocal quality of the actors who can really do it. Jim Burrows, the great sitcom director who…

— Tim Matheson

'Animal House' was sort of the first real, contemporary, youthful voice of the baby boom generation. It spoke to that audience, and…

— Tim Matheson

I allow myself to have my feelings of disappointment and discouragement, but never to sit and wallow in them. I meditate on…

— Tim Matheson

When you're the president, there's tremendous respect, and everybody goes out of their way respecting you and honoring you... it can be…

— Tim Matheson

I was just dying to get out of the constraints of television, and the constraints of the parts I'd been playing. I…

— Tim Matheson

When I worked with Chevy Chase, Michael Ritchie would say, "Just ad lib and try to break me up. Just insult me.…

— Tim Matheson

Acting requires emotional flexibility and demands, and directing is more cerebral and managerial and a tactical kind of thing.

— Tim Matheson

I'll never forget John Heard doing Shakespeare In The Park with Raul Julia and Richard Dreyfuss. It was 30 years ago, I…

— Tim Matheson

I love Sam Raimi. 'Evil Dead 2' is one of my favorite films. It's one of the best cheaper horror films I've…

— Tim Matheson

To me, as a director and an actor, that's the main thing. "What's the heart of this story? What's the humanity of…

— Tim Matheson

I allow myself to have my feelings of disappointment and discouragement, but never to sit and wallow in them.

— Tim Matheson

I wasn't working much. So I focused on studying, and I really learned what it means to be an actor. And here…

— Tim Matheson

I like thrillers. That's a genre that I'm really taken with. I love Hitchcock, that thriller style. I'm a student of it.

— Tim Matheson

It started with Ronald Reagan, when he took away the financing to the California universities. It used to be cheap to send…

— Tim Matheson

I learned a hell of a lot from my co-star, Kurt Russell. He's one of my closest friends and was one of…

— Tim Matheson

I enjoy making feature films, but I'd rather be in a good TV series than mediocre movies.

— Tim Matheson

Reagan was the conservative Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

— Tim Matheson

I must say Steven Spielberg was great to me, and I loved working with him. He called me up on the phone…

— Tim Matheson

The great thing about theater is the doing it again and again and again.

— Tim Matheson

Meeting Jerry Mathers I remember thinking, "This is it, man. This is the Hollywood life! I'm an actor and I'm going to…

— Tim Matheson

You know, I'm a big comic book fan. As a kid I used to collect them until there was a horrible mudslide…

— Tim Matheson

I'd come up with one leg in theater, but never my first leg. I loved the camera too much.

— Tim Matheson

When I was a kid, at Disneyland, they used to sell Animation Cels for $5.00 at a Fantasyland store. They were called…

— Tim Matheson

I was born and raised in L.A. My father was born and raised in L.A. So we're old hands here.

— Tim Matheson

I grew up on a set. The guys I hung around with were crew guys: the camera department, the prop guys. I…

— Tim Matheson