Fred Willard Quotes

I consider myself a novice film actor.

I had just done a movie prior to 'Employee of the Month' called 'Let's Go to Prison' and Will Arnett got to play the bad guy. I would watch him daily and couldn't wait to get the chance 'til I played a bad guy.

You can be in an acting class all you want, but you don't fully learn until you get off that stage and in front of a camera.

I was lucky enough to have a plethora of types of roles before and during the horror movie part of my career.

'Swimming Pool' was a very important moment for me because the character was written for me.

I was in an acting class taught by Eric Morris, and Jack Nicholson was in the class. He wrote the script for 'Head', so all of us in the class got little tiny parts in the movie.

My role in 'Legally Blonde' was really rewarding, because I had so much fun working on the movie. I've had really rewarding experiences on tiny low budget films that you'll never see but where I had a cool time creating characters as well. I love almost all of the characters I've played.

I love the entire process of being on the set and being able to create a character. It's so much fun. In 'Think Like a Man,' I have a very small part. They told me it wasn't a big budget, but I don't care about any of that. I'll do it for free simply because I love being on the set with other creative people.

I go by the role pretty much. And I think the only genre I haven't gotten to do but I'd love to is a western, but no one has ever asked me to do that. Unfortunately they are very few and far between these days, but that is one type of film I'd love to do.

Well, acting has been a dream of mine since I can remember; being in the movies and acting, having those experiences.

In 2003, I had the pleasure of acting in three films.

I have been taking classes and I'm familiar with stage, but I'm not as familiar with acting on camera.

So most of my acting experience came in college when I was living away from them. I acted in various independent films, and I got some commercial work and stuff like that.

Playing Joanne in 'London to Brighton' was my first taste of film, and I loved every second of it.

The first feature film I did, when I did 'Night Shift,' I improvised quite a bit because I would improvise at the audition, so sometimes I would return to the original lines, and then when I was on set, I would improvise even more.

I've never read for a movie, I've always been given them.

If you love acting and you've ever experienced theater, then you know that in a movie it's almost impossible to live out that experience, unless you're a Pacino or a De Niro or somebody who gets to pick their parts.

In films, I didn't crave the type of attention I had sort of stumbled into in my music career. And I do not audition well. I'm really not good at it. Early on, I did movies like 'Alpha Dog' and 'Black Snake Moan' because the directors didn't ask me to audition.

I never sought to play monsters in films.

These are rare moments in an actor's life, where you're put in an environment which is so natural, and you get natural performances.

'Hunger Games' was an awesome job. I never had to learn any lines. I never had to do any ADR.

My first kiss was onscreen. My character learned to drive before I did, so when they asked me to hit the mark with that giant Lincoln, I hit the camera instead. Being an actor gives an interesting perspective on life. And in my case, an interesting preview.

Acting in the theatre is fun; acting in film is work.

There is nothing, not a thing, like the process of creating a character for the stage - you can't get it anywhere else. Unless you're totally method and spend six months living your life like your character for a film, the theater is the place to get that intense acting experience.

Every movie I've done, it's always the same criteria: finding a great story, and finding a great part to play.