Harland Williams quotes:

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  • I love seafood. Whenever I'm in Las Vegas, I love going to the Bellagio buffet because they have these great king crab legs.

  • The problem with binge-watching on Netflix is that you lose three days of your life.

  • I grew up on Don Knotts and Jerry Lewis and all the guys from Second City.

  • Canada has been a breeding ground for great comedic actors, sketch artists and stand-up comedians. We grew up with a different perspective on the world.

  • What's interesting about Stephen Baldwin is that me and Dana Gould were originally cast for 'Bio-Dome' - but Pauly Shore and Baldwin ended up doing it. So there's a little movie trivia for ya.

  • I used to do little sketches into my cassette tape recorder when I was a little boy. I would just turn it on and just start doing voices and characters. I just loved it.

  • I just tried to create a life for myself that's full of fun and fantasy and things that equal laughter. My life's been cartoons and comedy and acting, and it's just been a fun life, man.

  • I think life would be so much funnier if every day you saw someone walking down the street getting hit in the head by a monkey, don't you?

  • In 'There's Something About Mary' and 'Dumb & Dumber,' I ended up improvising quite a bit of my scenes, and later I didn't even remember what I'd said because I just winged it. When I went and saw the movie, I was as stunned as everyone else was.

  • I sort of write onstage. I'll throw an idea out there, like Home Depot, and just start talking about it.

  • I get a lot of people telling me that I'd make a good 'wacky neighbor.' I wouldn't mind that, if it was a starting-off point.

  • I hate when you go into a nice restaurant - someplace where you're going to spend good money - and there are kids in there crying.

  • I hate when you go into a nice restaurant - someplace where youre going to spend good money - and there are kids in there crying.

  • Animation wasn't my love, but drawing was. I loved drawing, and when it came time to graduate from high school, I looked around and it was like, "Wow, I don't really want to study math. I don't really want to study science. I don't really want to study literature. Is there a place where I can go and draw cartoons?"

  • If you're going to take a jab at someone, you should at least have a bit more of a personal relationship with them. I feel like you can be funny and clever, as opposed to just outright vile.

  • I'm an American citizen now, but I will always have Canadian pride.

  • I try to take normal things - whether it's a serious subject or something as obscure as a piece of toast - and put a very weird twist on them.

  • I don't laugh so much at jokes and premises as I do at a guy who goes onstage and starts twitching and acting funny.

  • Executives and studios really like to have control over their product. They panic or they're not secure enough to trust in the powers of really amazing improv people.

  • I love the theater of the mind because you can go anywhere. You can say anything, and you pull people in. [You] can be jumping out of a window or riding a cow or having bubble-wrap sex or spraying your body with Pam and sliding out of your chair.

  • Pumpkins are the only living organisms with triangle eyes.

  • I just tried to create a life for myself that's full of fun and fantasy and things that equal laughter. My life's been cartoons and comedy and acting, and it's just been a fun life.

  • I think people should maybe just go out into the garden and watch a ladybug crawl across a flower and relax their mind. That's about all you need to know about life, I think.

  • Everything's a conspiracy and everything's not a conspiracy. You could look at this planet and go, "This is all a conspiracy. God made this to test us to see if we'll use the nukes." You can let your mind believe anything.

  • I dont go on tour tours - I just go randomly to cities to do shows if I have an opening in my schedule.

  • I think life would be so much funnier if every day you saw someone walking down the street getting hit in the head by a monkey.

  • The thing I love about sketch is sometimes it leads you as opposed to you leading it.

  • The thing I love about sketch is sometimes it leads you as opposed to you leading it. So, I don't go out there [thinking], "Oh, I want to make this as silly as possible." In fact, sometimes I get the most enjoyment out of a sketch that plays very real - and it's so real that it's just funny.

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