Harland Williams quote: "I always improvise with the crowd. Sometimes it will be a 50 percent show, sometimes 70 percent, sometimes it's almost a whole show where I wing it. It depends on my mood, the energy in the room. For sure, a portion of it is just kind of winging it."

I don't laugh so much at jokes and premises as I do at a guy who goes onstage and starts twitchi...
HARLAND WILLIAMS

Without sounding negative, I'm not a huge fan of a lot of stand-up. I'm more interested in a...
HARLAND WILLIAMS

I sort of write onstage. I'll throw an idea out there, like Home Depot, and just start talking a...
HARLAND WILLIAMS

My roots are in stand-up, and stand-up is very freeing. There's no script involved; you just fly...
HARLAND WILLIAMS

I hate when you go into a nice restaurant - someplace where you're going to spend good money - a...
HARLAND WILLIAMS

I'd done a ton of movies here in Hollywood, and I realized that every movie I'd done was som...
HARLAND WILLIAMS

I think a lot of people think I'm doing kind of a character onstage, but what you're really ...
HARLAND WILLIAMS

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

I don't go on tour tours - I just go randomly to cities to do shows if I have an opening in my s...
HARLAND WILLIAMS

The thing is, you never know with any movie how it's going to turn out. It's always a myster...
HARLAND WILLIAMS

I used to do little sketches into my cassette tape recorder when I was a little boy. I would just tu...
HARLAND WILLIAMS

I just tried to create a life for myself that's full of fun and fantasy and things that equal la...
HARLAND WILLIAMS

It was such a pleasure to work with Eugene Levy. What a treat. That's a guy I grew up watching a...
HARLAND WILLIAMS

If you were to come out and hang out with me, just having fun at a nightclub or a party, that's ...
HARLAND WILLIAMS

In 'There's Something About Mary' and 'Dumb & Dumber,' I ended up improvisin...
HARLAND WILLIAMS

What's interesting about Stephen Baldwin is that me and Dana Gould were originally cast for '...
HARLAND WILLIAMS

I was walking around bored one day, and I started filming stuff with my cellphone. There are all the...
HARLAND WILLIAMS

Canada has been a breeding ground for great comedic actors, sketch artists and stand-up comedians. W...
HARLAND WILLIAMS

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

I love seafood. Whenever I'm in Las Vegas, I love going to the Bellagio buffet because they have...
HARLAND WILLIAMS

I think life would be so much funnier if every day you saw someone walking down the street getting h...
HARLAND WILLIAMS

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

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

I think being isolated like that let me really get in touch with my inner voice. I was able to ask m...
HARLAND WILLIAMS

If you're going to take a jab at someone, you should at least have a bit more of a personal rela...
HARLAND WILLIAMS

Well, you know, I just did the old 'let's go down to amateur night,'
HARLAND WILLIAMS

I'm really excited to come back to my hometown (of Toronto), oh yes indeed, I'm back! Daddy's back i...
HARLAND WILLIAMS

It's going to be a lot of fun, hot and steamy, just the way I like it,
HARLAND WILLIAMS

he says. ''I've been able to star in three movies in my career, and I still haven't done that.
HARLAND WILLIAMS

Do you know that the ready concession of minor points is a part of the grace of life?
HENRY HARLAND

The fact that someone might have a marginal motive to get rid of someone doesn't mean they killed th...
HARLAND BRAUN

It's conceivable that the D.A. could find that there is not enough evidence. It would be unusual, bu...
HARLAND BRAUN

What do they have to lose by interviewing the suspect? Either he's going to bury himself or exonerat...
HARLAND BRAUN

We want the LAPD to investigate Robert Blake. The more they investigate, the more they'll find out h...
HARLAND BRAUN

The civil case is coming up next month and they're trying to dirty (him) up in anticipation of that ...
HARLAND BRAUN

He's very frustrated because Rosie is the most important thing in his life.
HARLAND BRAUN

A lot of this is just people he'd hang around with, he'd tell them about how this woman is ruining h...
HARLAND BRAUN

This is the kind of human being testifying against these officers.
HARLAND BRAUN

He's being well-treated and he's getting his regular medications . He said it's ... like some of the...
HARLAND BRAUN

They were looking for anything that would show she had troubles with anyone from her past, including...
HARLAND BRAUN

There's no reason to be the richest man in the cemetery. You can't do any business from there.
COLONEL HARLAND SANDERS

You got to like your work. You have got to like what you are doing, you have got to be doing somethi...
COLONEL HARLAND SANDERS

Don't be against things so much as for things.
COLONEL HARLAND SANDERS

I made a resolve then that I was going to amount to something if I could. And no hours, nor amount o...
COLONEL HARLAND SANDERS

I made a resolve then that I was going to amount to something if I could. And no hours, nor amount o...
COL HARLAND SANDERS

There's no reason to be the richest man in the cemetery. You can't do any business from there.
COL HARLAND SANDERS

You got to like your work. You have got to like what you are doing, you have got to be doing somethi...
COL. HARLAND SANDERS

I made a resolve then that I was going to amount to something if I could. And no hours, nor amount o...
COL. HARLAND SANDERS

There's no reason to be the richest man in the cemetery. You can't do any business from there.
COL. HARLAND SANDERS

Don't be against things so much as for things.
COL. HARLAND SANDERS

Don't be against things so much as for things.
COL HARLAND SANDERS

There is something magical about three you know - a trio is tight and nicely economical.
IAN WILLIAMS

My first job is big sister and I take that very seriously.
VENUS WILLIAMS

But I like to be thought of as a good father and a good husband.
TREAT WILLIAMS

After working so hard on the court, I find that snacks help me avoid late-afternoon energy lows.
VENUS WILLIAMS

The essential truth is that sometimes you're worried that they'll find out it's a fluke,...
ROBIN WILLIAMS

The day my son was born my life changed completely.
TREAT WILLIAMS

We have a responsibility to help those around us and help others in need.
VIRGINIA WILLIAMS

Sometimes I light incense and a candle. It's so peaceful and quiet. The steadiness of the energy...
CINDY WILLIAMS

If you're writing fantasy or science fiction, it's really hard to do if you don't know a...
TAD WILLIAMS

People may get tired of hearing from me, but I don't think I'll ever run out of things that ...
TAD WILLIAMS

One of the fascinating things about researching Heaven and Hell is, of course, the fact that there a...
TAD WILLIAMS

For me, any book I'm writing is also a chance to get in and research and read and learn things t...
TAD WILLIAMS

My parents were perfectly open-minded about everything. They never tried to convince us of what was ...
TAD WILLIAMS

I am a sandwich man. Somewhere early in life, my epigenetic switches got flicked to 'likes sandw...
TAD WILLIAMS

Every major technological step forward has profoundly changed human society - that's how we know...
TAD WILLIAMS

Unless technology itself is drastically repressed, the idea of the dystopian monoculture like Orwell...
TAD WILLIAMS

We tell lies when we are afraid... afraid of what we don't know, afraid of what others will thin...
TAD WILLIAMS

I've always been partial to werewolves, perhaps because there's a desperation to their pligh...
TAD WILLIAMS

Never make your home in a place. Make a home for yourself inside your own head. You'll find what...
TAD WILLIAMS

In the process of looking for comedy, you have to be deeply honest. And in doing that, you'll fi...
ROBIN WILLIAMS

Peace is not wimpy. It's about sitting down and negotiating with people you hate. Ultimately, al...
BETTY WILLIAMS

Everyone makes their own comments. That's how rumors get started.
VENUS WILLIAMS

You have to let fear go. Another lesson is you just have to believe in yourself; you just have to. T...
VENUS WILLIAMS

Some people say that I have an attitude- Maybe I do. But I think that you have to. You have to belie...
VENUS WILLIAMS

Sometimes when you're making more errors you want to pull back, but I just need to keep going fo...
VENUS WILLIAMS

Sports are a great place to show that equality can happen.
VENUS WILLIAMS

The day I'm not improving will be the day I hang up the racket.
VENUS WILLIAMS

A lot of times, I don't just do juice; I do the whole thing blended to keep the fiber.
VENUS WILLIAMS

Losses have propelled me to even bigger places, so I understand the importance of losing. You can ne...
VENUS WILLIAMS

Of course, I want to be number one. But being happy and healthy is the most important thing.
VENUS WILLIAMS

I always like to win. But I'm the big sister. I want to make sure she has everything, even if I ...
VENUS WILLIAMS

I like to be busy. It's not always easy because the schedule gets busy; especially, the more suc...
VENUS WILLIAMS

I'm always in search for perfection. If it's not perfect, I'm back to the drawing board.
VENUS WILLIAMS

You can never get complacent because a loss is always around the corner.
VENUS WILLIAMS

I guess rumors are more exciting than the truth.
VENUS WILLIAMS

No matter who you are, the grass is never greener on the other side.
VENUS WILLIAMS

I've always found the rain very calming.
VENUS WILLIAMS

Hitting is the most important part of the game. It is where the big money is, where much of the stat...
TED WILLIAMS

Baseball's future? Bigger and bigger, better and better! No question about it, it's the grea...
TED WILLIAMS

I hope somebody hits .400 soon. Then people can start pestering that guy with questions about the la...
TED WILLIAMS

I've found that you don't need to wear a necktie if you can hit.
TED WILLIAMS

If there was ever a man born to be a hitter it was me.
TED WILLIAMS

If I was being paid thirty-thousand dollars a year, the very least I could do was hit .400.
TED WILLIAMS

All managers are losers, they are the most expendable pieces of furniture on the face of the Earth.
TED WILLIAMS

Hitting is fifty percent above the shoulders.
TED WILLIAMS

There's only one way to become a hitter. Go up to the plate and get mad. Get mad at yourself and...
TED WILLIAMS

By the time you know what to do, you're too old to do it.
TED WILLIAMS

If you don't think too good, don't think too much.
TED WILLIAMS

Baseball gives every American boy a chance to excel, not just to be as good as someone else but to b...
TED WILLIAMS

There has always been a saying in baseball that you can't make a hitter, but I think you can imp...
TED WILLIAMS

A man has to have goals - for a day, for a lifetime - and that was mine, to have people say, 'Th...
TED WILLIAMS

God gets you to the plate, but once your there your on your own.
TED WILLIAMS

According to my grandmother, I started singing as soon as I began talking. I always wanted to be an ...
VESTA WILLIAMS

A lot of people have called me the black Bette Midler, and I regard that as a compliment.
VESTA WILLIAMS

I've always felt that to deliver a song successfully, you have to be an actress. A good actress ...
VESTA WILLIAMS

When I lost my record deal, and my phone wasn't ringing, I realized that I had to reassess who V...
VESTA WILLIAMS

Don't you dare print my first name. That would make me sound like a real country girl.
VESTA WILLIAMS

I guess I was always a ham, and I was anxious to try doing different things. I started doing impress...
VESTA WILLIAMS

And at 19, you think you rule the world, and you can control things. And a lot of times, you don'...
VANESSA WILLIAMS

And when people give me their word, I listen to them.
VANESSA WILLIAMS

Broadway is really my life.
VANESSA WILLIAMS

My parents are both teachers, so we had the summers off.
VANESSA WILLIAMS

There are a lot of things that you don't realize that your parents are going through when you...
VANESSA WILLIAMS

Well, my mom taught public school music for almost 40 years. And she's about 5 feet - and very m...
VANESSA WILLIAMS

I love the French horn.
VANESSA WILLIAMS

I am lucky to have three daughters who are completely different. I look at my daughters and I have d...
VANESSA WILLIAMS

New York is my home.
VANESSA WILLIAMS

You're always going to have people that are naysayers, that don't believe in your talent, th...
VANESSA WILLIAMS

The wiser you get, the more experience you have, and the more you see people for who they are as hum...
VANESSA WILLIAMS

I think there's a time to work, and everyone has to kind of adjust. And then there's a time ...
VANESSA WILLIAMS

Our music doesn't make many compromises, but we take it into a venue that's larger than peop...
IAN WILLIAMS

It's like that Simpsons joke - they're filming a cow in a movie and they go, 'OK, we'...
IAN WILLIAMS

I'm too tasteful for my pants.
IAN WILLIAMS

I think one of the most boring things is a person's taste.
IAN WILLIAMS

I think when I began, I played distortion more than the guitar. The results of my strumming. Now I p...
IAN WILLIAMS

I definitely like the mystery of not knowing how things will turn out, you know.
IAN WILLIAMS

We made happy sounds because we were upset... just trying to make a positive situation out of a nega...
IAN WILLIAMS

I think there's a lot of naivete and hubris within our mix of personalities. That's probably...
IAN WILLIAMS

This is fun; consuming our music shouldn't be a responsibility like eating your spinach or somet...
IAN WILLIAMS

Now and then, I had moments of greatness, but I never knew how to duplicate it consistently.
IAN WILLIAMS

Some people say I have attitude - maybe I do... but I think you have to. You have to believe in your...
VENUS WILLIAMS

So much of what we do is ephemeral and quickly forgotten, even by ourselves, so it's gratifying ...
JOHN WILLIAMS

Growing up with two sisters, you either play by yourself or play Barbie with them. I played by mysel...
RICKY WILLIAMS

The moment I started treating my social anxiety disorder, I started feeling better.
RICKY WILLIAMS

As human beings we have a tendency when we like something to tie it up and make sure it's there ...
RICKY WILLIAMS

As an athlete, you figure you work your whole life to have what you have, and to be able to show the...
RICKY WILLIAMS

A team takes on the personality of the head coach.
RICKY WILLIAMS

I realized a while back that I have an innate ability to be compassionate, and I saw that the streng...
RICKY WILLIAMS

When you make that crossover from life to real life, when you're not treated as a child anymore ...
RICKY WILLIAMS

I definitely have come out of my shell a lot more. When you question who you are, you can't be p...
RICKY WILLIAMS

I've let a lot of things go, and obviously football is one of them. I think the hardest thing to...
RICKY WILLIAMS

There's nothing I miss about anything in the whole wide world. The idea of missing something mea...
RICKY WILLIAMS

One thing I've learned about life is that if you really let go, it's just a joy ride.
RICKY WILLIAMS

Anytime you play a team sport, the success of the team really makes everything better. It's nice...
RICKY WILLIAMS

I've always been attracted to things that are taboo. I've never been afraid to go to that da...
RICKY WILLIAMS

To talk about balance, it's easier to talk about what's out of balance. And I think anytime ...
RICKY WILLIAMS

I have no room in my life for any form of negativity or nonacceptance.
RICKY WILLIAMS

There's more to life than success, and if you can try to be more well-rounded, you'll be abl...
RICKY WILLIAMS

People are hungry because they're eating empty foods. Mine are full, and so am I.
RICKY WILLIAMS

One of my biggest problems is that I'm always so influenced by what other people are thinking ab...
RICKY WILLIAMS

I had this notion that everyone was staring at me and judging everything about me, from my appearanc...
RICKY WILLIAMS

We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to ...
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS

In memory everything seems to happen to music.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS

To be free is to have achieved your life.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS

I have found it easier to identify with the characters who verge upon hysteria, who were frightened ...
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS

All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senil...
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS

If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS

The future is called 'perhaps', which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the...
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS

I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS

For time is the longest distance between two places.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS

Life is an unanswered question, but let's still believe in the dignity and importance of the que...
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS

There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS

Some mystery should be left in the revelation of character in a play, just as a great deal of myster...
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS

The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS

What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it's curved ...
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS

If you can keep playing tennis when somebody is shooting a gun down the street, that's concentra...
SERENA WILLIAMS

Tennis just a game, family is forever.
SERENA WILLIAMS

I am not a robot. I have a heart and I bleed.
SERENA WILLIAMS

I left school and couldn't find acting work, so I started going to clubs where you could do stan...
ROBIN WILLIAMS

There's a show in America where all these people compete with ferrets, and they don't even d...
ROBIN WILLIAMS

I loved running, but all of a sudden everything hurt so much. I started cycling when Zelda was born.
ROBIN WILLIAMS

The idea of having a steady job is appealing.
ROBIN WILLIAMS

I'm much more open to being a supporting actor right now. At the age of 60, I'll be second f...
ROBIN WILLIAMS

Winning an Oscar is an honor, but, between you and me, it does not makes things easier.
ROBIN WILLIAMS

Tweets? That stuff kills conversation. And people taking pictures with their phone or recording you,...
ROBIN WILLIAMS

You have this idea that you'd better keep working otherwise people will forget. And that was dan...
ROBIN WILLIAMS

I love kids, but they are a tough audience.
ROBIN WILLIAMS

I don't have a college degree, and my father didn't have a college degree, so when my son, Z...
ROBIN WILLIAMS

Look at the walls of Pompeii. That's what got the internet started.
ROBIN WILLIAMS

I met Nelson Mandela, and I really didn't know what to say. It was years ago at a benefit. I was...
ROBIN WILLIAMS

When Jonathan Winters died, it was like, 'Oh, man!' I knew he was frail, but I always though...
ROBIN WILLIAMS

A lot of vets like 'Good Morning Vietnam' - I get great letters from guys.
ROBIN WILLIAMS

I bought one of the first Nintendo systems and brought that home, and we were playing 'Legend of...
ROBIN WILLIAMS

I started doing comedy because that was the only stage that I could find. It was the pure idea of be...
ROBIN WILLIAMS

I like my wine like my women - ready to pass out.
ROBIN WILLIAMS

One of my favourite actors of all time, although he doesn't necessarily play villains, is Peter ...
ROBIN WILLIAMS

I think 'Dead Poets' was probably my favorite, just to get started with the idea of doing a ...
ROBIN WILLIAMS

I think it's great when stories are dark and strange and weirdly personal.
ROBIN WILLIAMS

I loved school, maybe too much, really. I was summa cum laude in high school. I was driven that way.
ROBIN WILLIAMS

Acting is different from stand-up. It gives you this ability to enter into another character, to cre...
ROBIN WILLIAMS

Reality is just a crutch for people who can't cope with drugs.
ROBIN WILLIAMS

Reality: What a concept!
ROBIN WILLIAMS

If it's the Psychic Network why do they need a phone number?
ROBIN WILLIAMS

If Heaven exists, to know that there's laughter, that would be a great thing.
ROBIN WILLIAMS

What's right is what's left if you do everything else wrong.
ROBIN WILLIAMS

Comedy can be a cathartic way to deal with personal trauma.
ROBIN WILLIAMS

The improv, sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't, but when it does, it's like open-field...
ROBIN WILLIAMS

In 'The Secret Agent,' it's basically a character that was admired by Theodore Kaczynski...
ROBIN WILLIAMS

We had gay burglars the other night. They broke in and rearranged the furniture.
ROBIN WILLIAMS

I always improvise with the crowd. Sometimes it will be a 50 percent show, sometimes 70 percent, sometimes it's almost a whole show where I wing it. It depends on my mood, the energy in the room. For sure, a portion of it is just kind of winging it.

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Harland Williams

I always improvise with the crowd. Sometimes it will be a 50 percent show, sometimes 70 percent, sometimes it's almost a whole show where I wing it. It depends on my mood, the energy in the room. For sure, a portion of it is just kind of winging it.

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