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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.

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Tim Matheson
Age: 76
Born: 1947
Born: December 31
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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.
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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.
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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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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.
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I'd come up with one leg in theater, but never my first leg. I loved the camera too much.
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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.
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Life has its ups and downs, so to expect otherwise is setting yourself up for disappointment.
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With comedy, you really want to work things out beforehand.
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It's the kind of sage wisdom coming from a guy who was 25 at the time, but already had 20 years of experience. Kurt Russell is a wonderful actor and a great guy.
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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.
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