Fred Willard Quotes

'Beverly Hills Cop' opened up a whole world. I got the television show and movies, and I would go sign autographs for one hour and get paid $25,000.

Once you make a movie like 'Superbad,' when it's popular and you're the lead, you get offered all kinds of things and there's a temptation to make bad movies either for the money or to maintain your relevance in pop culture.

When I was filming 'The Outsiders,' my idea of success was getting the next Martin Scorsese movie.

I was so flattered to be asked to be in the movies - the idea of being paid to act was heady stuff.

I was the leading star in 1945. I slowed down my pace of acting assignments after I came into direction.

I did 'The Karate Kid,' then I just went back to college. I didn't know how much money it made and I didn't have a publicist. I didn't have any sense of the business part of it.

You really are as hot as your last movie. And it goes away really quickly.

I don't think many people can say they've been the lead in a Spielberg film and still been able to live their normal life that they had before.

You never know what movie I will be in next, but let's just hope it's sells (for my sake at least)!

The film business is absurd. Stars don't last very long. It's much more interesting to be a proper actor.

Actors strive to be part of something like 'Twilight' and what 'Twilight' is, is unbelievable.

I guess in the independent market, I'd be getting offers, but in terms of big studio films, I still have to audition. I don't think my name is that well-known, I don't have much of a following to guarantee box office success yet.

I dreamed of doing stuff like Will Smith and films on a big scale.

I was only a leading man for a minute; now I'm a character actor.

I certainly wouldn't mind if 'Jurassic Park' turns out to be commercially successful, and somebody says, 'Hey, you were in a box-office hit, and if you want to do another movie, we'll give you five million dollars to make it.'

Ideally, I'd like to go right back to getting $7 million a picture and being the headliner. That's probably not going to happen.

I'm a fan of Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt, and all these people. If I could end up like Jonah Hill, winding up in a Brad Pitt movie, that would be awesome.

I haven't earned much money through films.

Everybody wants a movie career. I found that pretty elusive. I did make a movie with Martin Sheen about a nuclear scientist who has a religious experience. I don't even know what it was called. I don't think it was ever released.

It's not like I'm the lead actor or anything. But it's really cool to be in a Steven Soderbergh movie.

Can't step from one movie set to the next. Only Samuel L. Jackson can do that. All us mere mortals can't do that!

You can't ignore the system and the power you acquire as an actor if you're in films that are successful.

I have to make my bones with Hollywood to get in. And when I do maybe I'll metamorphose from Mr. Muscles or whatever it is I am now and become an irascible tosser.

People call me a movie star. If you're in the business, a movie star is someone who can make a film bankable. My name and $6 million will make a $6 million movie. I'm a working actor. Because I started late, I had a very short run as a leading man, and my films didn't make money in America.

Who could have asked for anything better? I was cast in movies with great actors, with great leading men.