"I've found over the years that for some reason, people either are big fans and have to use me, or they don't quite understand what I'm doing."
"I think my wife saw a picture of the rock group Journey, and they're kind of aging, and the one guy had dyed blonde hair with black roots, and... my idea was to get a little earring, I wanted to have a dangling earring."
"Suddenly you're like a pirate, you're 65 years old and you've got an earring."
"It's more fun in a way to do ensemble scenes, where you know your background, you know the scene, but you can't prepare because someone else is going to say something that is going to lead you off."
"It's such a pleasure to work in these movies, it's almost like it's not really happening."
"Someone I've always admired is Catherine O'Hara... I think she's one of the best actresses in the country, not only comedy. I just think she's just a step aside from everybody, she's just wonderful."
"I just admire everybody and sit in awe and watch them."
"Cleveland is my hometown, and the Indians have a narrow but rich history."
"I don't know why my lines that were cut from the film didn't make it onto the DVD. I have offered to go into the editing room with Christopher and work shoulder to shoulder with him to fit all my lines in. I think he thinks I'm kidding. I'm only trying to help."
"I once was in a project. They were going to do a remake. Somebody started a rumor I wanted more money. I said, 'This is ridiculous. I'd kill for this project!'"
"I never think I'm old enough to play someone's dad, even though I have a daughter of my own and a grandson."
"I did a show called 'Lois & Clark' - it was about Superman - years ago. They wanted someone to play the president of the United States. The plot was the president got kidnapped by a group, and they made a clone of him, who was very irresponsible and silly."
"God bless Chris Guest... and I mean it sincerely."
"I guess it's from going to Virginia Military Institute. I'm a good person to follow orders."
"My first improv was Second City in Chicago. Before that, I worked at - with a partner, doing comedy sketches."
"It scared me to death to think about improv, but I got hired for a year at Second City in Chicago, which made me nervous, but I found I could improvise. Then I was in a group called the Ace Trucking Company, which we'd do, like, a half hour set of material, then open up for improvisation."
"There's different kinds of improv. There's Second City improv where you try to slowly build a nice sketch. There's stuff you do in college coffee houses where you just go joke, joke, joke. Bring another funny character with a funny hat on his head. Christopher Guest is more the line of trying to get a story out."
"The 'Tim And Eric' experience was very strange."
"Christopher Guest, he'll call and say, 'We're doing this movie, and I'd like you to play _' and he gives you the character, then I always like to enlarge on the character."
"That's always a funny thing, when people think they're known for every little thing they ever did, and they're really not."
"Tobe Hooper - he did my favorite horror movie, 'Texas Chain Saw Massacre.' It's still one of my favorite horror films."
"If I have to play an obnoxious character, try to find a redeeming feature of him. The most obnoxious people in the world were people, and they had had a reason for doing what they did. So you try to find that and let the obnoxiousness come out."
"I never got any advice in acting."
"Let me say this: I have said, any time, if it's Martin Mull, I will say yes. If it's Christopher Guest, I will say yes."
"If you're a cheerleader, people see you. If you're a mascot, you're just helping out."
