Tim Matheson Quotes

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• I love JFK. My mother had been a worker on his campaign and adored him.

  Tim Matheson

  Mother, Campaigns, Workers

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. February 17, 2009.

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• With comedy, you really want to work things out beforehand.

  Tim Matheson

  Want, Comedy

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• I always wanted to be an actor. I was one of those lucky kids - or cursed kids - who always knew what he wanted to do.

  Tim Matheson

  Kids, Lucky, Actors

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. February 17, 2009.

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• I understood the workmanlike quality of a good stand-up. They all have this. There's a technique for everything you do. But boy, it's tough, 'cause there ain't anybody else out there but you.

  Tim Matheson

  Boys, Quality, Tough

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• As an actor and a director, I always let my actors go... assuming they have good ideas.

  Tim Matheson

  Assuming

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Life has its ups and downs, so to expect otherwise is setting yourself up for disappointment.

  Tim Matheson

  Disappointment, Ups & Downs, Settings

  "Tim Matheson: On the Whole Live Challenge and never wallowing in disappointment". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Funny is funny. You can be fooled by the eye, but if your performance is funny to the ear, it will be funny. I think it's that if you don't have the visual, you have to infuse the full personality into the voice.

  Tim Matheson

  Eye, Thinking, Personality

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I'd come up with one leg in theater, but never my first leg. I loved the camera too much.

  Tim Matheson

  Source: film.avclub.com

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• Chevy Chase had been a bad boy with a drug problem, and had never really realized his potential. Fletch was the first movie he sort of straightened up on. And Michael Ritchie was Harvard-educated, 6'6", a brilliant director and political thinker. He was the guy the studio thought could handle Chevy, and keep him in check. And he could.

  Tim Matheson

  Boys, Guy, Political

  Source: film.avclub.com

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• We wanted to make Tucker's Witch just more human and playful, because I don't think we see enough playfulness between characters on TV. It's like, "Who really gives a damn about two detectives on a case?" The sillier we went, the better it worked.

  Tim Matheson

  Character, Thinking, Giving

  Source: film.avclub.com

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• Meeting Jerry Mathers I remember thinking, "This is it, man. This is the Hollywood life! I'm an actor and I'm going to Jerry's party. This is how it begins!" I was 13 or 14, and I thought this was the beginning of something.

  Tim Matheson

  Party, Men, Thinking

  Source: film.avclub.com

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• I love horror films. And I like chick flicks! I like to approach the different genres of moviemaking and explore them. And you get a little better the more you do them.

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  Different, Horror, Film

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• As a director, I know everybody's job, and I know how to do it. I can smell bullshit when someone's telling me it can't be done, because I've seen it done a hundred thousand times.

  Tim Matheson

  Bullshit, Done

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I kept thinking that with all those first jobs, "This is the beginning of something!" And then nothing would happen. That's the real Hollywood.

  Tim Matheson

  Real, Thinking

  Source: film.avclub.com

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• To me, as a director and an actor, that's the main thing. "What's the heart of this story? What's the humanity of this story? And if the movie doesn't have it, then why am I watching it?" Even if it's a silly comedy, like Superbad or Knocked Up - Judd Apatow, I love, because he's all about heart. The humor comes out of the humanity.

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  Silly, Heart, Love Is

  Source: film.avclub.com

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• I read Animal House and I said, "I will burn down a house to be in this. I have to be in this movie." I read 1941 and I went, "Well, if Steven Spielberg likes it..." But it just wasn't on the page. It was a very big, unwieldy thing, and there were so many characters. It was fun to shoot, but I didn't know what the core of it was.

  Tim Matheson

  Fun, Character, Animal

  Source: film.avclub.com

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• Tucker's Witch was the first television I'd done in a while. It was just before Moonlighting, and just before you could get a little more outrageous on TV. We had a great premise.

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  Done, Witch

  Source: film.avclub.com

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• I grew up on a set. The guys I hung around with were crew guys: the camera department, the prop guys. I was like the third kid through the door when I was a kid actor on Leave It To Beaver. I was always one of five guys who would have a couple lines. I was a journeymen actor in my first career, so I was appreciative of the journeymen on the set.

  Tim Matheson

  Couple, Kids, Guy

  Source: film.avclub.com

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• Whenever I study a genre of film-making, Steve Spielberg is the first guy I go to. Even Catch Me If You Can, which is a very lightweight kind of thing, if you just look at the economy of the way he designs his shots and works around actors, the craft is amazing.

  Tim Matheson

  Design, Guy, Study

  Source: film.avclub.com

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• Sam Kinison was one of the most compulsive people I'd ever seen. James Belushi was that way, and Chris Farley was that way. He was incredibly talented and made me laugh so hard, and there was nothing he wouldn't say. Such a unique, amazing, cynical, realistic, but still optimistic look at life he had. It was great fun to get to know him.

  Tim Matheson

  Fun, Optimistic, Unique

  Source: film.avclub.com

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• I'd been working on more traditional movie sets and TV shows at Universal. All of a sudden, here we're on location in Animal House, and it's down and dirty and quick. It was the way the new commercial world was shooting; the way the indie world was shooting. These were lighter, faster cameras. It was a generational change.

  Tim Matheson

  Dirty, Animal, House

  Source: film.avclub.com

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• There is something about the vocal quality of the actors who can really do it. Jim Burrows, the great sitcom director who directed Will & Grace and Cheers, when an actor comes in to audition for him, he never looks at them. He just listens. Because funny is funny. You can be fooled by the eye, but if your performance is funny to the ear, it will be funny.

  Tim Matheson

  Cheer, Eye, Grace

  Source: film.avclub.com

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• I must say Steven Spielberg was great to me, and I loved working with him. He called me up on the phone and was like, "I want you to be in this movie - 1941. There are a couple of parts. You can take whichever one you want. One of them is a main character who is involved in everything, and there's another character who has his own storyline and goes off on his own. He's probably the funnier, more unique character." I said, "Well let me do that second one."

  Tim Matheson

  Couple, Character, Unique

  Source: film.avclub.com

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• The great thing about theater is the doing it again and again and again.

  Tim Matheson

  Great Things

  Source: film.avclub.com

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• I'll never forget John Heard doing Shakespeare In The Park with Raul Julia and Richard Dreyfuss. It was 30 years ago, I guess. It was Othello, and John Heard played Cassio, and while everyone else was "Acting!" Heard came on talking normal, and everyone in the audience was leaning in to follow him. I wasn't doing that in Bus Stop. I think in that performance, I was putting it out a little too much.

  Tim Matheson

  Thinking, Acting, Never Forget

  Source: film.avclub.com

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