"You become funny for a reason. I became……" — Matthew Lillard
"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 good at. You become a clown and you make people laugh because a) it protects you from everything, and b) it's this validating force in your life. And when you're 12 and 13 years old, you need validation and you're lost and you're kind of floating and you suffer from a severe learning disability and you're overweight and you have glasses... you become funny for a reason."
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25 Quotes by Matthew Lillard
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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…
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Hollywood used to be run by artists and people who loved artists... people who wanted to make movies for all…
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Character actors are becoming a thing of the past. They're just going by the wayside. They're just cutting through that…
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Being onstage is like being rock star. Whereas if you're doing a movie, it's such a confined space. You know,…
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I always think that I'm the best thing in a lot of bad movies. Personally, I have to. I think…
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How much do you have to pay someone to be in a George Clooney/Alexander Payne film? Nothing! Because everyone in…
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I got into a bad jag of movies that helped pay the rent and I thought would help further me…
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Now, more then ever, we have the ability to make films for almost nothing and that's broken down all barriers…
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So much of Hollywood is about who the people you work with are.
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Something like 'Without a Paddle' does really well at the box office and I'm like, 'Oh, here we go.' In…
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I was like, what the hell is my life coming to? I'm a trained actor! I've done Shakespeare and here…
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Being an actor, when you sign onto a project - whether it's good, bad, or indifferent - you kind of…
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