Matthew Lillard Quotes

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• You may not have faith in my friend fate,
  But my friend fate has faith in you.

  Matthew Lillard

  Fate, May, Have Faith

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• 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.

  Matthew Lillard

  Jobs, Sex, Character

  "Matthew Lillard on growing up". Interview with Sonia Saraiya, www.avclub.com. September 10, 2014.

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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 I am having farting contests with an imaginary dog!

  Matthew Lillard

  Funny, Dog, Here I Am

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• 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 days and a bond happens. So even when a movie is terrible, you love it.

  Matthew Lillard

  Long, People, Intense

  "Matthew Lillard on growing up". Interview with Sonia Saraiya, www.avclub.com. September 10, 2014.

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• I don't go to parties. I don't go to clubs. My friends and I don't go drinking, we play D&D. I'm still a weird entity in the world.

  Matthew Lillard

  Party, Drinking, Play

  "Matthew Lillard Talks Fat Kid Rules the World, Becoming a Director, the Film’s Road to Development and Plans for Future Directorial Projects". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 10, 2012.

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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 caliber of acting.

  Matthew Lillard

  Character, Cutting, Past

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I think everyone is given drama, by virtue of the fact that we all have drama in our lives, but not everyone can make people laugh.

  Matthew Lillard

  Drama, Thinking, People

  "Matthew Lillard Talks FAT KID RULES THE WORLD, Becoming a Director, the Film’s Road to Development and Plans for Future Directorial Projects". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 10, 2012.

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• 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.

  Matthew Lillard

  Running, Art, People

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I like doing family films.

  Matthew Lillard

  Film

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• To me, the punk rock kids I grew up with were really, really smart, and to me, respecting those kids was a really big deal.

  Matthew Lillard

  Smart, Kids, Rocks

  "Matthew Lillard Does Punk Proud". Interview with Niki Cruz, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 6, 2012.

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• My first love is acting, but the reality is that I just don't get too many opportunities to stretch, and grow, and inspire myself as an actor, certainly not in terms of where I make money. Yeah, I can go off and do a play, but the reality is as a profession, directing is exponentially more satisfying.

  Matthew Lillard

  First Love, Opportunity, Reality

  "Matthew Lillard Does Punk Proud". Interview with Niki Cruz, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 6, 2012.

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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, 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.

  Matthew Lillard

  Stars, Space, Rocks

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I learned a lot, in terms of inspiring people. It became very clear to me, very early on, that directing a movie was a lot like being in a theater company.

  Matthew Lillard

  People, Theater, Term

  "Matthew Lillard Talks FAT KID RULES THE WORLD, Becoming a Director, the Film’s Road to Development and Plans for Future Directorial Projects". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 10, 2012.

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• It's always fun to play a bad guy because you get more to do. It's more arch. There's more energy to throw into it.

  Matthew Lillard

  Fun, Play, Guy

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• Nothing would make my kids happier than to do another movie.

  Matthew Lillard

  Kids

  "EXCLUSIVE: Matthew Lillard Puts His Improv Chops on Display". Interview with Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. November 6, 2009.

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• 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 if you see me as like, number one on a call sheet? In general, that movie is pretty bad.

  Matthew Lillard

  Numbers, Lines, Fantastic

  "Matthew Lillard on growing up". Interview with Sonia Saraiya, www.avclub.com. September 10, 2014.

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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.

  Matthew Lillard

  Crush, Hot, Littles

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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 that I like me as an actor.

  Matthew Lillard

  Thinking, Actors, Bad Movies

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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 the world wants to be a part of it. Therefore you pay nothing. And that continues until you become something they need... I'm not that kind of actor. I'm blue collar and very replaceable.

  Matthew Lillard

  Blue, Needs, Actors

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. May 30, 2012.

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• Every kid's dream is to be a great actor.

  Matthew Lillard

  Dream, Kids, Actors

  "Matthew Lillard on growing up". Interview with Sonia Saraiya, www.avclub.com. September 10, 2014.

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• The great thing about acting is the longer you do it, the more you realize that all those realities are inside you. No matter how crazy they are, you can pretend that they are a part of you. The great thing about this job is you get to play with every aspect of your id and who you are.

  Matthew Lillard

  Jobs, Crazy, Reality

  "Matthew Lillard on growing up". Interview with Sonia Saraiya, www.avclub.com. September 10, 2014.

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• If I could act in theater, my whole life, and never act in film or television again, and just direct the rest of my life, I would gladly do that.

  Matthew Lillard

  Television, Film, Theater

  "Matthew Lillard Talks FAT KID RULES THE WORLD, Becoming a Director, the Film’s Road to Development and Plans for Future Directorial Projects". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 10, 2012.

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• 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 and harder to watch and deal with that stuff.

  Matthew Lillard

  Hard Times, People, Watches

  "Matthew Lillard on growing up". Interview with Sonia Saraiya, www.avclub.com. September 10, 2014.

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• 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.

  Matthew Lillard

  Falling In Love, Memories, Actors

  "Matthew Lillard on growing up". Interview with Sonia Saraiya, www.avclub.com. September 10, 2014.

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• 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.

  Matthew Lillard

  Kids, Trying, Different

  "Matthew Lillard on growing up". Interview with Sonia Saraiya, www.avclub.com. September 10, 2014.

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