Latest Louie Anderson Quotes from Interviews

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• I'm a big game show fan. When you're a poor person, you watch game shows. I don't think people realize that. Maybe everybody watches game shows, but when you're poor, you live vicariously through those people.

  Louie Anderson

  Thinking, People, Realizing

  Source: www.avclub.com

• Your agent or manager tells you. They go, "You're out. They're gonna get a new guy." But then I didn't feel bad. I didn't take it personally. Not that I'm competitive at all. But you have pride in that, you know? You want your ratings to be good. But now that I'm 62, I don't really care about the ratings. I don't care about the reviews. I care about the work, and I care about the people that I'm working with, and I try to make the experience for them and myself as good as it can be.

  Louie Anderson

  Pride, People, Guy

  Source: www.avclub.com

• I'm still working! I think of all the other comics that didn't get the light shined on them, just because it's just how fame works, and it's unfortunate. But there are so many great comics out there who are still working, and I still see them.

  Louie Anderson

  Thinking, Fame, Unfortunate

  Source: www.avclub.com

• I think Splash made people realize that I was still alive, and I think I inspired a lot of people. I have people coming up to me all the time in the airport saying, "Hey, you inspired me to learn how to swim!" "You inspired me to start moving around more." "You inspired me to start doing more for myself." So that was good. But mostly I took it because nobody had given me a job. And you know what really matters in life, right?

  Louie Anderson

  Moving, Thinking, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

• I'm a kid from Minnesota. I like seeing movie stars! So I'm there at The ivy, I've got my shrimp, Eddie Murphy comes in with his gang. I said to the waiter, as any good Midwestern boy would, "Hey, put Eddie's check on my American Express card, but don't tell him that I did it 'til I'm gone." Next day I got a call from manager who said, "Eddie's doing a movie, he was very impressed that you bought him lunch." So remember: sometimes buying people lunch can really work out well for you.

  Louie Anderson

  Kids, Boys, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

• I think what people were trying with me was to figure out who I was. They thought I was funny, but they were like, "How can we use this guy so he can regularly do this?" Does that make any sense? I think people were trying to figure out if my fat peg would fit in their square hole.

  Louie Anderson

  Thinking, People, Guy

  Source: www.avclub.com

• God and the universe said to me one day, "You're only going to get what's good for you." That's kind of how I try to look at things. Isn't that true, when you look back at things? "Ooh, I'm glad I didn't get that!" You get more philosophical when you get older, with the more life experiences you have. But I don't have any bad feelings towards anybody that was ever involved in any of that stuff, because I don't think that people usually set out to hurt you. I think that hurt is all manufactured by yourself and your expectations.

  Louie Anderson

  Hurt, Philosophical, Thinking

  Source: www.avclub.com

• We tried to make it more than just a cartoon. It was a cartoon, but we tried to make it more than it was to begin with. And I have 300,000 followers from Turkey, Romania, Poland, and places over there that love Life With Louie, where it was translated into their language. They love it. They are absolutely in love with it. And it just goes to show you: no matter where you go, it's always about family.

  Louie Anderson

  Love Life, Cartoon, Language

  Source: www.avclub.com

• Real people are good and grumpy. They're nice and mean. And I come from a nice and mean family. My mom was nice, and my dad was mean. So I would've served myself a lot better if Louie Lundgren would've blown up at some of the people he was talking to. I think it would've really served everybody better. We'd probably still be on the air!

  Louie Anderson

  Mom, Dad, Real

  Source: www.avclub.com

• I really made the cartoon Life with Louie with one reason in mind: I didn't have a very good relationship with my dad, and we didn't all watch TV together like we should've, like you hope for, like you've seen on TV, and I wanted to make it for moms and dads and their kids. That was always my goal. And then I wanted to put real things in it. We did a thing about the homeless and won a Humanitas award for that.

  Louie Anderson

  Mom, Dad, Real

  Source: www.avclub.com

• I was a terrible actor. But John Hughes liked me, and he encouraged me. I made him laugh, I guess is the bottom line, and then he gave me that part in Ferris Bueller's Day Off as the flower man. It's just a nothing part in one sense, but it's such an iconic movie that people will ask me from time to time, "Are you in Ferris Bueller's Day Off?" "Yeah."

  Louie Anderson

  Flower, Men, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

• I think I'm a better actor now. I mean, I really think I know a lot about acting now. But I didn't know a lot about acting then, in 80's, and I never knew how to be myself. I never knew how to relax and just play it from me. I was always trying to deliver a line.

  Louie Anderson

  Mean, Thinking, Trying

  Source: www.avclub.com

• I just had a throwaway part, really, if you think about it. I'm not a natural actor, you know? I'm a comedian, through and through. And I really love my lines. Those are the lines I want to do.

  Louie Anderson

  Thinking, Comedian, Natural

  Source: www.avclub.com

• I'll tell you how you know when you're on something good: when everybody starts to tear up when they're leaving, when they're wrapping for the season. You know, when you say, "All right, we're done with McGillicuddy. That's a wrap for McGillicuddy!" And everybody applauds, but everybody's sad, because McGillicuddy's going to be gone! You know, it's like family going off to college or war. You have this intimate relationship with these people, and then - bam! - they're gone.

  Louie Anderson

  War, College, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

• Filming in Cloak & Dagger I was trying to get my Screen Actors Guild card. Everybody tries to get their SAG card if they want to be an actor. People might say that it was their dream to be an actor, but for me, I was a comedian. I already had a job. But I felt like there could be money there, and comedians don't make very much money, or they didn't in 1984.

  Louie Anderson

  Dream, People, Comedian

  Source: www.avclub.com

• Playing Mrs.Baskets was an interesting experience for me. It was the most rewarding thing I've done since Life With Louie. So you never know: If somebody asks you to put a wig and a dress on, you shouldn't just say "no" right away.You should at least see if there's money, fame, and satisfaction involved.

  Louie Anderson

  Interesting, Done, Fame

  Source: www.avclub.com

• Many people are laughing when they see me, but I'm playing Mrs.Baskets all pristine. I'm playing it not-Louie. I'm not being Louie. I'm just being the character that I think it should be. I had to make a decision as to whether I was going to change my voice or not, but we decided for me not to change my voice, and I think that was the best thing ever, because I think it would've made a big difference in the character. I don't think it would've been as good.

  Louie Anderson

  Character, Thinking, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

• It might be one thing to think about putting on a dress, but when you're actually putting on a dress, it's a weird thing, because you're going, "Huh. I'm putting on a dress. Do I leave my underwear on? Do I get some other underwear? Is there something special I should wear?" All that dumb stuff. I'd never had any interest in putting on my mom's clothes, except to think, "Well, they are nice clothes..."

  Louie Anderson

  Nice, Thinking, Dumb

  Source: www.avclub.com

• My mom ate every piece of butter in the Midwest, she lived till she was 90. And my dad, he smoked, he drank - we finally just had to kill him.

  Louie Anderson

  Mom, Dad, Pieces

  Source: www.npr.org

• You have to not worry or doubt or punish yourself. All the worry, doubt and punishment will not add one second to your life, you know?

  Louie Anderson

  Punishment, Worry, Doubt

  Source: www.npr.org

• I could be an alternative comic. I could be that really dark - I was - I was a very dark comic to begin with. I could be that guy, and the only reason I didn't is that I wanted to make money. I wanted to be popular. I wanted to be liked more than I wanted to be admired.

  Louie Anderson

  Dark, Guy, Alternatives

  Source: www.npr.org

• I used to do my dad smoked, he drank, we finally had to kill him.

  Louie Anderson

  Dad, Used, My Dad

  Source: www.npr.org

• One thing to remember when you're successful, famous, whatever you want to call it - well-known, not that well-known - whatever you want to go. One thing to remember is your family's not famous, and they're not well-known.

  Louie Anderson

  Successful, Want, Remember

  "Comic Louie Anderson Modeled His 'Baskets' Role After His Own Mom". "Fresh Air", www.npr.org. March 2, 2016.

• I have to be very careful about how I do any stuff on sadness 'cause the crowd gets really sad and concerned for me.

  Louie Anderson

  Sadness, Crowds, Stuff

  Source: www.npr.org

• My mother loved people and she loved conversation, and she loved to engage with people. She was a really fantastic person. You would've really liked her.

  Louie Anderson

  Mother, People, Fantastic

  Source: www.npr.org