Words matter. These are the best Tim Matheson Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Vice president is the bridesmaid, and nobody cares about you. Nobody wants you. You’re just in the way. You’re there to play a subsidiary role. You’re like the middle child or the poor relation.
My parents were going through a divorce, and I used to go spend all weekend at the movies to get away from it all. There was something about the sameness of the movies. It was a place for me to go to express my emotions, you know, and let it out.
I went to the prom with a girlfriend of my sister’s, a platonic date.
I like real stories.
I have a paper, pencil, and ink sketch for a Mickey Mouse cartoon short entitled ‘Mickey’s Garden’ from 1935.
Anything is better than sitting around waiting for the right movie to come along. I lose my edge when I’m sitting around the pool not working.
Ronald Reagan was the Governor of California. He had earned the right to be considered for President of the United States. You learn a lot about a person by the way they have served. None of this applies to Trump. There’s no disclosure with him. I just think the man is a very troubled, emotional mess.
I’ve played historical characters before, and I think the trap of all of them is if you try to do an impression. If that’s what you’re working on when you’re doing a scene, then your focus is on the wrong thing.
Rod Lurie is one of the most wonderful directors I have had the pleasure to work with. He shoots like Clint Eastwood: no fuss. When he gets it, he knows it – one or two takes.
Working with Lucille Ball was just a master class in how to do comedy.
‘Animal House’ was sort of the first real, contemporary, youthful voice of the baby boom generation. It spoke to that audience, and it spoke to that part of me which was saying, ‘Out with the old, in with the new.’
You know, I’m a big comic book fan. As a kid I used to collect them until there was a horrible mudslide in Hollywood and I lost my collection, but I was also at an early age the voice of ‘Jonny Quest;’ it was a cartoon; so I am kind of a latent fan boy.
I always fall in love with every character I play.
Acting requires emotional flexibility and demands, and directing is more cerebral and managerial and a tactical kind of thing.
For if you do, then shouldn’t we blame the whole fraternity system? And if the whole fraternity system is guilty, then isn’t this an indictment of our educational institutions in general? I put it to you, Greg – isn’t this an indictment of our entire American society?
My life honestly didn’t start until I got married and had kids.
I love Sam Raimi. ‘Evil Dead 2’ is one of my favorite films. It’s one of the best cheaper horror films I’ve ever seen. Horror films and suspense films can be made on a low budget without big stars and be very effective.
I love J. F. K. My mother had been a worker on his campaign and adored him.
