Quotes by Matthew Lillard

Matthew Lillard

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.

Acting

Exercise

Tests

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 I didn’t have all the words to be Sean Penn. But I was trying to do something different in every role.

Different

Kids

Trying

Being an actor, when you sign onto a project – whether it’s good, bad, or indifferent – you kind of fall in love with it. You fall in love with the experience, you fall in love with the memories.

Actors

Falling In Love

Memories

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 so hard, too, ’cause with a comedy, there’s no vocal reaction, there’s no energy that you get back that spurs you on to be funnier because everyone has to be quiet.

Rocks

Space

Stars

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.

Character

Cutting

Past

Charlie Brown’s good. I always had a little crush on that Lucy. I thought she was kind of a hot little brunette.

Crush

Hot

Littles

Every character lives in ever actor and if you’re doing your job right, you’re just accessing that part of your fantasy life. I can kill someone just as quickly as I can have sex with someone. You can switch that instinct, no matter what – you can pretend anything.

Character

Jobs

Sex

Every kid’s dream is to be a great actor.

Actors

Dream

Kids

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 serious, and I love being an actor.

Acting

Actors

Love Is

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 love. The Art. To tell stories. Yes to make money as well, but it was about both. Now I feel, it’s mostly about bottom line and making money.

Art

People

Running

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Actors

America

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Awkward

Bad Movies

Blue

Broken

Careers

Character

Class

Coins

Comedian

Crazy

Creativity

Crush

Cutting

Different

Dog

Drama

Dream

Drinking

Exercise

Falling In Love

Fantastic

Fate

Film

First Love

Fun

Funny

Glasses

Greatness

Guy

Hard Times

Have Faith

Helping

Here I Am

Hollywood

Hot

Ideas

Independent

Intense

Jobs

Kids

Kind

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Lines

Littles

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Quotes by Matthew Lillard

Matthew Lillard

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.

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 I didn’t have all the words to be Sean Penn. But I was trying to do something different in every role.

Being an actor, when you sign onto a project – whether it’s good, bad, or indifferent – you kind of fall in love with it. You fall in love with the experience, you fall in love with the memories.

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.

Charlie Brown’s good. I always had a little crush on that Lucy. I thought she was kind of a hot little brunette.

Every character lives in ever actor and if you’re doing your job right, you’re just accessing that part of your fantasy life. I can kill someone just as quickly as I can have sex with someone. You can switch that instinct, no matter what – you can pretend anything.

Every kid’s dream is to be a great actor.

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 serious, and I love being an actor.

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 love. The Art. To tell stories. Yes to make money as well, but it was about both. Now I feel, it’s mostly about bottom line and making money.

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