Fred Willard Quotes

I am obsessed with improv.

It's always hard to watch bad actors improv on your skit.

There have been, like, three auditions in my life where I feel like I'm in a 'Saturday Night Live' skit.

I did a number of local children's theater plays growing up, but in 5th grade, I had some good times on stage making people laugh as a troll in 'The Hobbit.' That solidified my dream to be on 'Saturday Night Live,' which was hugely influential for me growing up.

I remember once they sent me over to read for a show called 'Mork and Mindy.' I heard gales of laughter, then Robin Williams walked out. I had to follow Robin Williams.

When I was at youth theatre and drama school, I never thought people would mistake me for a stand-up.

I don't like going for more than a year without doing theatre. I don't mind falling flat on my face so long as I feel I'm open to the possibility of something extraordinary happening.

I got into stand-up to get on a sitcom.

If you're improvising with Paul Reiser, man, you'd better hold on tight!

I did improv for about 10 years professionally, and before that, I had done it in high school as part of an improv team. It was definitely a big part of my upbringing.

People are meant to be certain places, and I think I'm meant to be on a sound stage doing situation comedy.

Doing improv really got me started in my whole career.

If I could live a parallel life, I would be a sitcom star; being in front of a live audience would be great.

I'm not a good improv-er, which is what a lot of comedic actors are really good at. I have failed miserably when I've been asked to improvise.

I'm not a natural comic, I don't think. That's why I gave up stand-up. It was hard. It involved a lot of death. Dying. Dying on stage. But it's one of those jobs you can only learn by doing it.

In my early years doing standup, I bombed a lot.

My mom was like, 'You talk so much. You have too much energy. Why don't you just join the play or something?' It was a comedy, and I got laughs in rehearsal, but onstage, in front of a whole audience, I got a lot of laughs.

If you're a good improviser, you improvise well enough that people think that you're doing a sketch.

I don't like rehearsal.

Even when I was in school shows, in elementary school doing plays, I'd always go off book and start improvising.

I always wanted to be a stand-up comedian, even as a kid. Me and my dad would watch 'Evening at the Improv' on A&E.

It's the most amazing cast, a dream cast. We laugh all the time.

I'd like to come back because I really miss doing situation comedy.

When I do an hour-and-a-half show, if I don't improvise 20 minutes worth of new material each night, I feel I've let myself down.

It's fun to do something funny and have the director laughing. It makes you feel good.