D Lillard Quotes & Sayings

Adults must aim to diminish their egocentric and authoritarian attitude toward the child and adopt a passive attitude in order to aid in his devleopment. — Paula Polk Lillard

Nothing would make my kids happier than to do another movie. — Matthew Lillard

When I was in high school, I was the guy directing plays after class. I started my first theater company at 19, and my second theater company at 21. I've always been a guy who doesn't do well with the passive nature of being an actor. — Matthew Lillard

I don't go to parties. I don't go to clubs. My friends and I don't go drinking, we play D&D. I'm still a weird entity in the world. — Matthew Lillard

You may not have faith in my friend fate,
But my friend fate has faith in you. — Matthew Lillard

I like doing family films. — Matthew Lillard

A lot of times, as a clown, you find acting for a reason. It's a way to exercise yourself. If you're funny, you test yourself. — Matthew Lillard

You become funny for a reason. I became an actor because that's who I was, nothing else - it was the only thing I was good at. You become a clown and you make people laugh because a) it protects you from everything, and b) it's this validating force in your life. And when you're 12 and 13 years old, you need validation and you're lost and you're kind of floating and you suffer from a severe learning disability and you're overweight and you have glasses ... you become funny for a reason. — Matthew Lillard

If I could act in theater, my whole life, and never act in film or television again, and just direct the rest of my life, I would gladly do that. — Matthew Lillard

When you go from movie to movie, it's like going from family to family. You work with people for really intense hours on really long days and a bond happens. So even when a movie is terrible, you love it. — Matthew Lillard

Every kid's dream is to be a great actor. — Matthew Lillard

I've really enjoyed the independent film world. I've had a blast. But, the reality is that I really want to make bigger movies. If I could make movies that carry great characters and great performances and great pathos, and can have an explosion or two, that would be fine with me. — Matthew Lillard

When you're making an independent film what you don't have in time and money you have to make up with creativity and diligence. — Matthew Lillard

For better or worse, I take my acting seriously. I may not have been in the best movies ever made, but I take it deathly serious, and I love being an actor. — Matthew Lillard

If you want to look good in front of thousands, you have to out work thousands in front of nobody. — Damian Lillard

Nevada...a land that is geology by day and astronomy at night — Richard G. Lillard

The older I get, the more I can't stand violence and have a hard time with seeing people die in horrific ways. It gets harder and harder to watch and deal with that stuff. — Matthew Lillard

I direct with energy. I believe in energy. I think energy is an electric thing in actors. I try to inspire, encourage, and make choices with lots of energy. And truth. I'm big fan of truth and being funny. I like leading 50 people into battle every day. — Matthew Lillard

I like the fact that a modern television and modern drama on cable has characters that are really intricate and deep and have multiple layers. — Matthew Lillard

The stage is a training ground and it's where you learn what's funny and what's successful. — Matthew Lillard

As a kid, as a young actor, I really wanted to pop. I wanted to create something different. I wanted to be Sean Penn, but I didn't have all the words to be Sean Penn. But I was trying to do something different in every role. — Matthew Lillard

I always think that I'm the best thing in a lot of bad movies. Personally, I have to. I think that I like me as an actor. — Matthew Lillard

I was like, what the hell is my life coming to? I'm a trained actor! I've done Shakespeare and here I am having farting contests with an imaginary dog! — Matthew Lillard

Montessori called the child under six years old "a sensorial explorer" and based her educational approach for the child's early years upon the child's learning through the senses. — Paula Polk Lillard

I fired a bunch of people and kind of went back to my roots. I fired my agent - I had this big, fancy agent and a big fancy manager and a big fancy lawyer - and I went back to my first agent and said, "I want to go back to just being an actor." — Matthew Lillard

adult's role is to "teach children limits with love or the world will teach them without it. — Paula Polk Lillard

Every character lives in ever actor and if you're doing your job right, you're just accessing that part of your fantasy life. I can kill someone just as quickly as I can have sex with someone. You can switch that instinct, no matter what - you can pretend anything. — Matthew Lillard

Damian Lillard is having a better year than Chris Paul. Lillard got snubbed when he was left off of the USA Men's Basketball team, and now the All-Star team. — Kenny Smith

I've always been a guy that doesn't do well waiting for people to say, "You can act." It's always been a part of me. — Matthew Lillard

Anytime odds get stacked up against me, I feel like it's in me to beat it — Damian Lillard

Being an actor, when you sign onto a project - whether it's good, bad, or indifferent - you kind of fall in love with it. You fall in love with the experience, you fall in love with the memories. — Matthew Lillard

I just want to keep working hard, stay humble, and keep trying to win games. — Damian Lillard