Words matter. These are the best Harland Williams Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
My roots are in stand-up, and stand-up is very freeing. There’s no script involved; you just fly.
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 love seafood. Whenever I’m in Las Vegas, I love going to the Bellagio buffet because they have these great king crab legs.
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 was walking around bored one day, and I started filming stuff with my cellphone. There are all these shows where people are trying to do these outrageous stunts, and I thought it would be funny to do all these stunts that aren’t outrageous but then act like they are.
Without sounding negative, I’m not a huge fan of a lot of stand-up. I’m more interested in an absurd kind of theater.
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.
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 think a lot of people think I’m doing kind of a character onstage, but what you’re really getting is just me.
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.
I’d done a ton of movies here in Hollywood, and I realized that every movie I’d done was somebody’s else’s work and someone else’s vision.
I grew up on Don Knotts and Jerry Lewis and all the guys from Second City.
The problem with binge-watching on Netflix is that you lose three days of your life.
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’m an American citizen now, but I will always have Canadian pride.
If you were to come out and hang out with me, just having fun at a nightclub or a party, that’s kind of the version of Harland you’d get – silly, kind of always saying wacky things.
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?
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.
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.
